Jeff -
No worries. I'm not at all upset in the least.
My point was, in particular, his theological arguments were incredibly poor, inaccurate, and ignorant in the sense the they obviously did not engage a scholarly process. Or (hopefully not) he was aware, but just was not honest in disclosing such arguments for the sake of his activism.
For anyone who has not studied such matters, it would not be obvious and it would be easy to acquiesce to his view point. But for anyone who has studied the subject, it's very easy to see that his arguments have no basis in legitimate history, theology, exegesis, and other scholarly processes.
The instructions in Leviticus were not written because 'the writers found the behaviours disgusting.' Within the book itself you'll see that the various instructions were believed to be from God himself. AND those instructions were given with specific reasons. They were given, as it says in the text itself, so that the people could have life, quality life of justice (as in righteousness / right-relatedness) and peace, so they would not get the diseases of the other neighboring nations due to their behavior. Other instructions in the Torah also carry the same concept --> God trying to bless his people by offering them a way to peaceful, righteous life. He shows them the way saying that before you is the choice to chose life or death, chose life (second half of Deut 30 for example).
If I had more time, I'd make out a more detailed argument, but for now, I think even those thoughts can adequately display the incredible differences between what the text is communicating and what this Physiologist is trying to twist the text into for his own conclusions / opinions.
Aside from the theological arguments, I find a number of his other assumptions that he uses his evidence to back up far to over-reaching. If I have time later, I'll expand..
