# Ham & Cheese Religion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 11, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017 "2010-05-11T05:58:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017/21 "2010-05-13T18:22:21Z")

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> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#):
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> As for the homosexuality issue, the one thing that most anti-gay protesters never touched on was that stealing, adultery, popularity cults and other issues were just as hotly condemned too in the various letters to the church.

And those anti-gay protesters encourage stealing, adultery, and popularity cults? That _would_ be hypocrital.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017/22 "2010-05-13T18:37:24Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> :rolleyes: The U.S. Constitution counted Black slaves as 3/5 of a human being. Recognizing one part of a work as outdated doesn’t necessitate throwing all parts of it out.

My point was that the same-sex relations ban was not in a section of Leviticus that was not amended by Christ & the Apostles, as the Kosher food laws seem to have been. The only thing Christ amended about the sexual laws was the penalty for violating them, as far as consensual acts. And the general historic Christian position is that if an OT law is reinforced by Christ & the Apostles, it’s not really up for amendment.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017/23 "2010-05-13T18:39:28Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> And those anti-gay protesters encourage stealing, adultery, and popularity cults? That _would_ be hypocrital.

Well, some may indeed be guilty of popularity cultism.

Another note- we’re not seeing a big push for Thief Rights or Adulterer Rights either. I’m sure if there were, we’d see protesters against them also.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cheese-religion/539017/24 "2010-05-13T18:53:21Z")

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We have a big push for Blasphemer Rights, though. When was the last time somebody dragged a member of the ACLU to death behind a pickup truck?

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