A Marriage Equality Haiku. November 16, 2008
Posted by littlebangtheory in Love and Death.Tags: Biblical smack-down, Cage Match for Love!
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Jesus pleads his case;
Leviticus is voted
Off the Isle of Love.
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Little Bang Theory 
Sep’rate but Equal
Is anything but Equal
The Truth will win out
You guys are great with the three liners!
Sylvia, 🙂
Cuz, the Wall Street Haiku (identified by its distinctive contraction ) opens up a whole new realm of possibilities… 😆
…and Thanks for the hopeful sentiment!
Well, it would be good, ‘xcept Leviticus* is also the book that gave us the Jubilee Year, and that is a brilliant concept I wouldn’t mind our taking literally.
*I know the passages you don’t like and I agree with you about them and about marriage equality, I’m just being contrary and semi-scholarly. The Jubilee year is when, after seven times seven years, you give the land a rest, you forgive all debts, and you let the prisoners free. Sort of redistributes the wealth, too…
Jane, you know far more about this stuff than I do (I thought you were going to object to my anthropomorphic characterization of “Leviticus”!) so I’m happy to hear there’s something good in that thang. But I always thought that the “Love, Forgive and Don’t Judge” sentiment of the New Testament trumped the hard-assed, Smite-Squad-For-God attitude of the old.
Isn’t Jesus’ Word supposed to supplant whatever it contradicts in the Torah (and do I even have that right??)