Because of a request to clarify, for those who have not actually read through the Old Testament, Leviticus is one of the writings that seemed to go crazy about forbidding things _to the Jews_. (Christians like to forget that part) It's right after Exodus.

What's used as an excuse for hatred of homosexuals and transsexuals/transgender/gender varients is Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, which are translated (in various ways) as "You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination" (unto Nuggan)

What I was pointing out is that Leviticus explains how we're supposed to sacrifice male cows, sheep, and goats to the Lord (including details on how to wash the chopped up bits before burning). Next comes the burnt offering of bread - and we have to have frankincense for that. Oh - the sacrifice needs to be killed at the door of the church as well. Next it explains how if you touch an unclean beast, you are then unclean. (Pigs, for example, are unclean).

Skipping forward, we pass all the other detailed descriptions about offerings, and then it talks about how to anoint a priest. (and how if you give the wrong offerings, the Lord will directly burn you to ashes).
Now, in Chapter 11, we have the dietary restrictions. You can't eat camel, or any rabbit, or pig. You can eat anything from the water as long as it has fins and scales. Most birds are verboten, it seems, but you can eat grasshoppers and locusts. It even goes on to say that if your ceramic dishes (earthen vessels) come in contact with an unclean food, you must destroy them.

Next comes the "Women are unclean" section, plus circumcision, with the requirement that mothers have to provide burnt offerings.

After that is the horrendous treatment of Lepers, then more purification, then more food restrictions.

Next comes the Marriage and Morality sections (18, 19, 20). This includes how to put people to death for sleeping with each other, even if they're unrelated. (Man and daughter in law). Oooh, plus ostracism for being with a woman when she's menstruating.

The point is even most _Orthodox_ Jews don't follow the bulk of that. Reform Jews follow almost none of it, and Christians aren't supposed to be reading it except as background material.

How do you think your average Baptist congregation would react if their preacher said that they had to go back and follow Leviticus 1:5 that weekend? I think they'd end up arrested under public health laws, if not by various oddball animal cruelty statutes.

However, these same people will wave Leviticus 18 and 20 at people about how badly you should treat anyone not strictly being together for breeding - and being very careful to breed with the right person in the right way because of all the ways you can and will be put to death or thrown out of the tribe.

However, in Galatians, Paul pointed out that if you rely on observing the law (the first 5 books of the OT, called the Torah), you are under a curse. "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law". (Galatians 3:10).

In Galatians 3:13, Paul continues and says "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us."

In short, if you follow the New Testament, you CAN NOT follow the Old Testament. In other words, the only unclean people would be Ultra-Orthodox Jews. (I have an Israeli customer who isn't even allowed to be in the same room with a corpse, because that would be unclean for his ritual position. If he has to talk to someone in that room, he does it from the hallway. He's basically a kind of priest. Others take care of the bodies.)

If someone quotes Leviticus at you, tell them to read Galatians 5:1.

Hopefully that explains why I said that Leviticus is both one of the most ignored and one of the most abused sections of the "Bible". People read four paragraphs from it, and ignore the rest.