The Difference Between Clean and Unclean in the Old Testament

Father Mike: Unclean does not mean immoral, it simply is. He says virtually all of the factors that could make a person unclean have to do with life and death. If you come in contact with an animal's carcass, death, they're ritually unclean he says. Also when there are bodily fluids, those things are not in and of themselves morally good or evil, but they are associated with life.