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Originally Posted by asaris
Easy enough. Some would argue that it's simply part of the purity law, and so doesn't apply to Christians any more than keeping kosher does. (The kosher laws were explicitly abrogated by the NT.)
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The kosher laws were, most others weren't...
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Others would argue that the sentence prescribed by the law was to be handed down by the Jewish civil state, and since we don't live in ancient Israel, we don't have to follow the prescribed punishments for those acts.
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No one said so, now that the Church and State have nothing to do with each other, apart from some states like the Vatican, for instance.
However, for the believers it is still the word of God, therefore their actions are justifiable to them.
Btw, if you read only the new testament you will notice several passages where homosexuality is considered, among other things, an abomination deserving punishment.