Assertion: eunuch | /r/HasProperty | excluded
Facets:
value: from the congregation
type: OTHER
value: in judah
type: LOCATION
value: in most cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: from jewish worship
type: LOCATION
value: specifically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Eunuchs are gay men, in history and scripture, who are specifically excluded, by Jesus, from the Adam and Eve marriage paradigm.
text: Some scholars point out that eunuchs were excluded from Jewish worship and extend the New Testament's inclusion of these men to other sexual minorities; gay Catholic priest John J. McNeill, citing non-literal uses of "eunuch" in other New Testament passages such as Matthew 19:12, writes that he likes to think of the eunuch as "the first baptized gay Christian," while Jack Rogers writes that "the fact that the first Gentile convert to Christianity is from a sexual minority and a different race, ethnicity and nationality together":135 calls Christians to be radically inclusive and welcoming.
text: And according to Jeremiah, the Judean kings had officials known as sarisim (the plural) in their courts, even though emasculation was strictly forbidden in the law of Moses and, to discourage the practice, eunuchs were excluded from religious and civic life in ancient Israel.
text: In Judah, eunuchs were, in most cases, foreigners and excluded from the congregation.