There was (and may remain), a real life, practical purpose for the priesthood ban (and perhaps even the memory of the priesthood ban) that is plain as the nose on your face, and the ban has been very effective for its intended purpose. This is the great unmentionable. To the extent people today continue to defend the ban they help to retain its vitality and further this original purpose. Just like those arcane food prohibitions in Leviticus 11, the ban was born of real life, practical concerns.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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