Word: leviticus
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...Book of Leviticus declares that anyone who commits the sin of blasphemy should be stoned to death. In Britain, where blasphemy was still punishable by death until the 18th century, the last actual prosecution occurred in 1921, when John William Gott was sentenced to nine months at hard labor for writing that Christ looked like a circus clown as he rode into Jerusalem...
...taxpayers at least $300,000. Bryant's heavily religious appeal ("God drew a circle and more or less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll. Bryant is fond of quoting Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination. Gays respond that the singer is arbitrary about which biblical injunctions to preach. Her husband, for instance, regularly violates Leviticus' admonition against shaving. Anyway, says Gay Writer Arthur Bell: 'Leviticus is as relevant to the times as Little Women...
...Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.-Leviticus...
...Among them: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22); "Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals...will inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians...
...Near North disco row, Songwriter-Composer Robbin Grand explains: "Before, it wouldn't have mattered if the girl I was dancing with was at a disco a block away. There was no contact. With the Hustle you can be contemporary but close." Adds Harry Felder, 28, one of Leviticus' owners: "If you know the steps, it's a cool, gorgeous, comfortable thing. People are tired of being away from the person they want to be with." Ron Bookman, owner of Los Angeles' New York Experience, agrees: "People want to touch again...