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Someone's been playing another game

Someone's been playing another game of "bait the religious" with the modern secularists favorite sport -- dragging verses out of Leviticus and Deuteronomy and waving them at Christians or Orthodox jews. Usually this is done for the amusement of similarly minded friends, which is why those who do it are so shocked and embarassed to find that no, the religions in question didn't just, for example, take their position on homosexuality because they're mean, homophobic people (they may be, but that's neither here nor there; they all have well reasoned scriptural precedents for their positions. Whether or not you happen to agree that scripture is a sound basis for decision making is not relevant.) This particular letter is addressed to Dr. Laura, which just goes to show that whoever wrote it is ignorant as hell, because the last thing you want to do is get into an argument with an Orthodox Jew about the Law. Rabbis who were smarter than you and more fond of arguing spent a hundred years or so debating every possible permutation of every single law in the Torah, and then wrote it all down so thet the Orthodox you just picked a fight with can bore you for hours on the subject. It's called the Talmud, and go read Chaim Potok if you don't believe the shiksa.

Anyway, the letter's much funnier after you read John Braue's response to the questions. He doesn't have permalinks, so scroll down.