James Talarico

Is it in the Old Testament?

So in the Old Testament, there is a prohibition against men lying with other men.

And here's the thing, and any biblical scholar will tell you this,

In a lot of ways, we're dealing with ancient euphemisms.

And it's hard to tell what a euphemism means thousands of years later, right?

I had a professor at seminary.

This is going to sound weird.

But he was like, think about 2,000 years from now, how difficult it'll be for people to tell the difference between a butt dial and a booty call.

Right.

Like those are two things that sound very similar on a piece of paper and they have very different meanings.

And so that's funny.

You know, so like in in in the Hebrew Bible, you do have this this prohibition.

We're not sure exactly what it means.

And and if we're taking it just literally, does that mean that we're also we're prohibiting same sex relationships between women?

Right, because that's not prohibited in that particular scripture.

I mean, that's the one I just gave to you about men.

What is the punishment?

I mean, I think in most of these violations of the law, you know, the punishment, if it's, you know, called an abomination, the punishment can sometimes be death.

And this is true of eating certain foods, of planting two crops, different crops next to each other.

Wearing two different types of cloth.