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Originally Posted by Arty 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination.'
This is what Fred Phelps put on the Matthew Shepard Memorial.
And along the same lines, Leviticus 20:13,22:
'And if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.'
What I would like to know is this: How do those people here who are Christians but who do not advocate the death penalty for homosexuals reconcile their own views with the fact that the Bible seems to say quite unambiguously that they should be put to death? |
I was just thinking...it could, with good will, be interpreted in the way that you shouldn't have sex with the same gender
in the same way as you do with the opposite sex...
I'm not all too familiar with Leviticus...but it sounds roman, and I know the ancient greeks, as well as the more decadent romans, saw homosexual sex as purer, and more accepted, than heterosexual sex. Intercourse with women was considered dirty, and for procreation only...
So I don't know how well an anti-homosexual argument that scripture is...
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