A netfriend wrote:

The forbidden sexual practices listed in Leviticus 18 would be considered by a lot of people, especially Christians, to all still apply. There is incest and sex with relatives, sex with people married to someone else, sex with animals and sex with a person of the same gender. The only one that we don’t hear forbidden today is sex with a woman during menstruation – though many may choose to observe that also.

Interestingly, the passage makes an assumption that polygamy is OK (v.8) which most countries have outlawed these days.

When I first heard homosexuality debated (at Monash Uni in the ’70′s), one argument used by the “against” side was that once you move away from the classical prescription for marriage as set out in the creation narrative and reiterated by Jesus, where will it stop?

One argument used was that children’s literature and TV shows will start off portraying homosexuality as normal, and then they will begin a push to show Farmer Tom’s great love for his pigs as legitimate and OK. It got a reaction! But is it coming true?

I have occasionally observed references to “bestiality” in the spam that defiles my Inbox, and recently saw a survey that asked respondents which sexual practices they had tried. In some European countries a frighteningly high figure showed they had tried sex with animals (1 in 9, I think?). [The figure was almost nil in Australia - AND in NZ despite its reputation!].

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I responded:

Re sex with animals.

There’s a lot of interest out there in ‘Net-land on this topic. Another ‘nasty’ we have to face with compassionate apologetics…

A merciful God knows why my clients who’ve done this got into this mess, eg. the woman (who is now a denominational leader) who taught her male dog to have sex with her as a very troubled teenager..

Shalom!

Rowland Croucher

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