{"id":8061,"date":"2012-06-12T23:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:47:18","slug":"picking-and-choosing-loving-your-lgbt-neighbor-and-the-76-things-banned-in-leviticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/06\/picking-and-choosing-loving-your-lgbt-neighbor-and-the-76-things-banned-in-leviticus.html","title":{"rendered":"Picking and Choosing, Loving Your (LGBT) Neighbor, and the 76 Things Banned in Leviticus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"\"\"Fred Clark began a recent post on his blog<\/a> by pointing to a list of 76 things banned in Leviticus<\/a> that someone posted online, and a subsequent self-scoring against the list posted at Tad\u2019s Happy Funtime (click through to see where C3P0 gets a mention)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fred used this jumping off point to notice that pretty much all of us observe some of the things mentioned in Leviticus and consider them to be of ongoing validity, while regarding others as obsolete<\/a>. Conservative critics who regard him as a \u201cliberal\u201d because he does not regard homosexuality as sinful nevertheless retain employees\u2019 wages overnight, treat foreigners differently than the native-born, and so on. And so Fred writes,<\/p>\n

Yet somehow their disregard for all of those biblical commands never results in\u00a0them<\/em>being accused of \u201cliberal\u201d tendencies or a suspicious failure to respect the scriptures.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re picking and choosing.<\/p>\n

And so am I, of course. The difference is I can explain why.<\/p>\n

Here is the basis on which I do my picking and choosing:<\/p>\n