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Wearing linen and wool at the same time is an ABOMINATION!!! Like having sex with someone of the same sex.

Daniel Karslake is debuting his film "For the Bible Tells Me So," a documentary focusing on how the bible has been misused to justify, over centuries, different forms of discrimination, and how it's being used today to condemn gay people.

Good work Daniel, if only we can get this on cable in the midwest.

Here's a great quote from a bible scholar in this article:

The problem, too, the film points out, is the masses blindly accept biblical interpretations offered by these popular personalities rather than read and study for themselves. As a result, historical context is ignored, as are broader and supplementary materials, said the Rev. Laurence Keene, a soon-to-retire sociology professor at Pepperdine University.

"I have a soft spot in my heart for literalists because I used to be one," he said in the film. "There's nothing wrong with a fifth-grade understanding of God [or the Bible], as long as you're in the fifth grade."

Take, for instance, the word "abomination," which is used over and over by fundamentalists to describe what the Bible says about same-sex relations. Keene reiterated in a phone call this week that the word "abomination" refers to actions that were deemed "ritually impure." Other abominations include eating pork or shrimp, wearing linen and wool at the same time, and commingling crops.