That West Wing Clip

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPjWd4MUXs   

This clip from the TV show "West Wing" is used quite frequently by people to show how silly God's rules are, this was my response.

That West Wing clip seems pretty cool, until you, with humility, look at the scriptures and the wisdom of God given to His chosen people. Exodus 21 allows for a person who has fallen on hard times to "sell" his daughter to be a servant in a rich person's household. In the year of Jubilee she would be set free and the rich person does not just walk up to the poor person and buy the daughter. So can you just walk up and buy someone's daughter, nope! Exodus 35, and this will apply to most of the questions, is spoken to a nation that was to be set apart for God. They were going to be learning lessons about the fact that they could trust God. They were coming out of a slavery situation where Pharaoh made them work 7 days a week, they were to learn that the God of Israel was not like that, He made provision for rest and worship one day a week and He promised to provide for them on that day. The Jewish people, as a group are God's chosen people, He chose them and with that choosing comes many blessings and when they disobey, cursing and death, the natural consequences of rejecting life. It is key to note these rules (including the dietary rules) do not apply to the goyim, the gentiles, so no other nation or people is expected to live by them or enforce them. (Now if someone like Trisha sees wisdom in the dietary rules, she can voluntarily follow them, but she does not have to.) Leviticus 11 as we see in verse 2 was spoken to the Israelites, so no Mr. President it does not apply to the (former) Washington Redskins. The laws about mixture in crops or clothing were meant to teach this set apart nation that they were not to live like the other nations. Purity is the opposite of mixture and that is what they were being taught. Priests garments had mixture and so were the tassels that everyone could wear, but the tassels were an exception to the rule, a regular member of 11 of the tribes could not wear what the priestly tribe wore. Think of it like today, it is illegal to dress like a police officer, because you do not have that authority. (Again these laws are specific to the nation Israel, that was being set apart to be a light to the other nations.) Of course at the end, we see that the whole rant of this president was because he was the authority in the room and he insisted on the protocol that when the President was standing no one was allowed to sit, demonstrating that he saw himself as a "little god" and was butt-hurt by the disrespect being shown to his office by a "lesser human". He did all that homework so that he could embarrass and humiliate another person, sounds like the sin of pride was self-evident!