Today we accept as binding only its moral laws and maintain only such ceremonials as elevate and sanctify our lives, but reject all such as are not adapted to the views and habits of modern civilization. We hold that all such Mosaic and Rabbinical laws as regulate diet, priestly purity and dress originated in ages and under the influence of ideas altogether foreign to our present mental and spiritual state. We recognize Judaism as a progressive religion, ever striving to be in accord with the postulates of reason.
from the Pittsburgh Platform adopted by the Reform movement in the United States
in Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1997) 53.
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