Why the Gays Should Care about the Ten Commandments (or, Everythg You Ever Wanted to Know about the Summums, but were Aaid to Ask) | ACLU

Contents:

• WHY THE GAYS SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (OR, EVERYTHG YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUMMUMS, BUT WERE AAID TO ASK)
• IS HOMOSEXUALY/BEG GAY PROHIBED BY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
• THE 10 COMMANDMENTS FOR BEG A RPECTABLE GAY MAN
• THE FIVE GAYT THGS ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
• GAY MARRIAGE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND THE RULE OF LAW
• THE GAY MORMON TEN COMMANDMENTS

WHY THE GAYS SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (OR, EVERYTHG YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUMMUMS, BUT WERE AAID TO ASK)

What do this have to do wh the gays? (One mt always ask that for the gays, who have bee more and more sgle-issue their legal polics.

If ’s not gay marriage, do a gay re? For one thg, ar gays, ntrol over one’s body and therefore sex life has much to do wh the separatn of relign om law. This might be of ncern to believer and unbeliever, gay and straight alike!

Homosexualy Is Not a S.

IS HOMOSEXUALY/BEG GAY PROHIBED BY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

Homosexualy Is a S. Notice that there is no mandment wh the Ten Commandments specifilly statg that homosexualy is a s.

Even though the s of homosexualy isn't listed the Ten Commandments, the s is nsired a type of fornitn, which is sexual terurse between two unmarried people or between a married person and unmarried person (see Matt. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy...

1: 9-10"(U)nrstandg this, that the law is not laid down for the jt but for the lawls and disobedient, for the ungodly and sners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murrers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexualy, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is ntrary to sound doctre... Th, we also know that homosexualy is a s om a moral standpot bee is a form of fornitn, which is also nmned the Bible. They thk that when the seventh mandment was promulgated, God mt have meant to apply to all sexual activy outsi of marriage and not jt adultery, and they reason that sce homosexuals are not allowed to marry wh church, then they are mtg fornitn, which is agast the seventh mandment.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS FOR BEG A RPECTABLE GAY MAN

Homosexualy is mted between two people of the same sex outsi of marriage, which means that both partners are fornitors. Th, sce the Bible equat fornitn wh adultery, fornitn is nmned the seventh mandment along wh adultery, and homosexualy is fornitn, the seventh mandment mt also nmn homosexualy.

When I first started readg David Lamb’s new book about Old Ttament-style love I thought to myself, “Yeah, but what do he say about homosexualy? In a sensible, down-to-earth, well-rmed examatn, Prostut and Polygamists expos and bunks seven important myths about the Bible and homosexualy. 1) Gay Sex Is No Big Deal.

THE FIVE GAYT THGS ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

While homosexualy self never appears the Old Ttament, two vers Levic do briefly addrs the issue: Levic 18:22 and 20:13.

“Levic clearly teach that homosexual practice is wrong, ” Lamb nclus. 2) The Laws Banng Gay Sex Were Temporary. Though some sist such laws banng gay sex no longer apply— the same way ceremonial food laws are void—Lamb reveals otherwise.

There is nothg the ntext of the Levic laws to suggt they were temporary laws meant to apply only to Israel or that would have been fe the ntext of a mted homosexual relatnship.

GAY MARRIAGE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND THE RULE OF LAW

3) Gay Sex Is a Major Biblil Issue.

THE GAY MORMON TEN COMMANDMENTS

Though some sist homosexualy is a major biblil issue, Lamb reveals otherwise. The Old Ttament is much more ncerned about adultery, rape, ct, and even more ncerned about goat-boilg, than homosexualy.