Being Fashionable Or Cross Dressing?

I am a female who wears slacks to church and have recently been told about Deut. 22:5. I found a Q&A you had on this subject and in your answer you stated that this passage refers to cross dressing, deviant sexual behavior. I can’t understand how you came up with this explanation.

Q. Thank you for your wonderful site. I am a female who wears slacks to church and have recently been told about Deut. 22:5. I found a Q&A you had on this subject and in your answer you stated that this passage refers to cross dressing, deviant sexual behavior. Is there other verses referring to this? I can’t understand how you came up with this explanation. I greatly appreciate your site and have learned so much from you.

A. Common sense tells us that Deut. 22:5 is not referring to a female wearing slacks. First of all, it references both men and women. And remember, when Deuteronomy was written they both wore full length robes. Pants and dresses had not been invented yet.

Today it’s fashionable in some cultures for women to wear slacks, while in others men wear kilts or sarongs. The intention of Deut. 22:5 was not to limit men to certain types of clothing, and women to certain other types. It was to prohibit men, regardless of their culture, from trying to pass themselves off as women and women as men, in other words, cross dressing.