Letter to the Editor

Editor,

A religious war is not something I normally enter. I am not a Bible scholar, nor do I pretend to know a lot about the Bible. However, pulling one verse from the Bible as Bethany Prince did to prove a point is not a good way to win an argument.

First examine her choice. Leviticus 21:13 "And if man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." The first question is the choice of words, "Man lie with mankind", how come the scripture chooses to say man then use mankind. Seems to me that two different concepts are being used.

Ignoring the point I made, and I will concede that what is written in the Bible is what it means. If that is the case, I would like to point out a few things within Leviticus 21.

Leviticus 21:5 "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." It appears to be wrong to shave your beard, to shave your head, and to get body-piercing.

Leviticus 21:13-14 "And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." I hope no woman ever has sex before marriage. Sounds like you can not get married if you have had sex before marriage. If your husband dies, tough luck, your days of being married are over and you can't re-marry.

One other thing I would like to point out. Prince's choice verse from the Bible actually comes from Leviticus 20:13. As you can see from the previous paragraph Leviticus 21:13 has to do with a wife and her virginity. If you have a point to make, you can surely do so, but leave quotations from the Bible out of it. Anybody can pull one verse from the Bible and use that to "prove a point."