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[quote=Anonymous]Leviticus says this about homosexuality:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+18%3A22&version=NIV
Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

But a common question people ask then is if the rules of Leviticus are perfect, then why do people eat shellfish?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+11%3A9-12&version=NIV
But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to regard as unclean. 11 And since you are to regard them as unclean, you must not eat their meat.

Deuteronomy is even crazier.

A section on how women who are raped must marry their rapists:
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

And a section on how a woman who is not a virgin before her marriage should be stoned to death:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22:20-21
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.

So why do people take the part about male-male sexual relations literally but ignore the rules that say to not eat shellfish, to have rape victims marry their rapists, and to have non-virgins stoned to death at the door of their father's house?

I am asking this sincerely because I am trying to learn more about Christianity and am part of a denomination with a wide spectrum of views on LGBT issues.

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