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Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Tren Podcast, I'm your host, Cathergantz's Apologist

Trenhorn, and today I'm going to address a common objection to the Church's teaching

on homosexuality.

But before I do that, I myself have an objection.

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Alright, so the Catechism says that Scripture presents homosexual acts as acts of grave

depravity, paragraph 2357.

But some scholars and activists say these passages are taken out of context.

They say that even if some Bible verses seem to condemn same-sex behavior, they don't

apply today.

And so the Bible doesn't really say homosexual conduct is sinful.

Which is hard to claim when the Bible clearly says things like, you shall not lie with

a male as with a woman, it is an abomination, Leviticus 1822.

And if a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination,

they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them, Leviticus 2013.

The most common objection to citing these passages in Leviticus in particular is, I would

call it the shellfish objection.

A critic says Christians are inconsistent for following Leviticus's prohibition on

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