Leviticus 11:14 and Deuteronomy 14:13 both enlists the kite or any of it’s kind as unclean birds, that must not be consumed and in fact abhorred by the people of God.
Again, I don’t believe that this is in any way discriminatory against the kite itself, but it has in the undercurrent an important lesson that we must not overlook. Note how, God says, the kite or any of its kind (paraphrased).
Likewise sin (which is unclean and unholy) and any of its kind is all sin and therefore unclean. Many a times, we console ourselves into thinking that, what we deem as a small sin (such as a white lie etc) is okay because it does not hurt us or it may not hurt anyone else. However, sin or any of its kind (big, small, white, black, yada yada yada) are all to be detested (abhorred) and we must not partake (consume) of it.
Deuteronomy 14:2,3 and 13
2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
