What do the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage? |

Contents:

• 10 BIBLE VERSE ABOUT GAY (HOMOSEXUALY): WHAT DO THE SCRIPTUR SAY?
• "ABOMATN"--LIFE AS A BIBLE BELT GAY
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• TMP MPAIGN ADVISER SAYS GAYS AN 'ABOMATN,' MEN PREFER 'HANDMAINS'

10 BIBLE VERSE ABOUT GAY (HOMOSEXUALY): WHAT DO THE SCRIPTUR SAY?

Toevah is ed four tim Levic 18—once to refer to male homosexual acts, and then three tim as an umbrella term. The term impli that homosexualy has no place unr the sun (spe s prence over 300 animal speci), and that is an abomatn agast the Dive orr self. The word plays to the hands of fundamentalists on the one hand, and anti-relig zealots on the other, both of whom want to pict the Bible as vilently and centrally ncerned wh the “unnatural” acts of gays and lbians.

In fact, toevah is mostly about idolatry, and male homosexual behavr is only as abomable as remarriage or not keepg kosher. It nveys the culturally relative nature of toevah, has some nnotatn of foreignns, and rightly aligns the taboo agast homosexualy wh taboos agast, for example, eatg unkosher food. (Alternatively, we uld stick wh the Hebrew term, the foreignns of which heightens the foreignns of the biblil ncerns about homosexualy.

That do not mean I hate gays or those that seem to promote the urse, I have no right to do so, nsirg God’s mandment of also, bee I have no reason to judge another (I’m not a perfect beg myself). Studi show creasg support for gay rights the Uned Stat- cludg allowg marriage and even the opportuny to adopt children. Ined, om the begng, God’s tentn for humans was you are searchg for God’s word on Gays and lbians, I have piled bible vers about homosexualy to spire you.

"ABOMATN"--LIFE AS A BIBLE BELT GAY

10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicg homosexualy, for slave trars and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is ntrary to the sound doctre.

After God livered the Israel om the hands of Pharaoh, God created many laws for them to live acrdg to his of those laws was severe punishment if any man or woman mted the s of homosexualy. If we dulge homosexualy that do not brg praise to the body of Christ, we fall om his grace of eternal life. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

We also know that the law is ma not for the righteo but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sful, the unholy and irrelig, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murrers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicg homosexualy, for slave trars and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is ntrary to the sound doctre. You me and st out the darkns and evil spirs that abound homosexuals and replaced what they once had wh the Holy Spir and light abundant. I thk wh the Halachic world there has been a remarkable refn of many of the more tradnal attus ncerng the ngenal homosexual.

Asi om s obv associatn wh homosexualy, tôʿēbâ also has a distctly relig and idolatro nnotatn as Isa. “Sce male prostut were sometim strated and often took part ceremoni flntg their effemacy, may well be that aversn to homosexualy partially explas the ban on strated men participatg the public assembly, or on wearg women’s cloth.

Dpe the reticence of the morn scholars, given the rnivalque qualy of the ancient fertily r, homosexual prostut most likely played a role alongsi wh the female prostut of antiquy.

TMP MPAIGN ADVISER SAYS GAYS AN 'ABOMATN,' MEN PREFER 'HANDMAINS'

18:22, we may be able to cipher the Torah’s real meang that the ban agast homosexualy may well be referrg to (a) father and son ct (as mentned the Hte s) (b) homosexual rape (as spelled out the Middle Assyrian Cos), (c) male pedophilia, (d) stratg a male for sexual exploatn. Bear md that ancient Israel was the only civilizatn to have formulated such a proscriptn agast homosexualy. If this is ed the real meang of the text (and let me remd you that we have no way of knowg for sure), then is possible that the prohibn was not directed at monogamo male relatns, which was not the ncern of the biblil wrer, but was aimed at male ct, pedophilia, and homosexual rape, i.

Usg other biblil texts as a type of trabiblil mentary provis the ratnal behd the biblil prohibn of homosexualy and why is lled, “an abomatn. Lastly, the one likely exposn we have not nsired is the possibily that the Torah forbids homosexualy bee go agast the biblil imperative for human begs should ‘be uful and multiply’ and do not f the scheme of Creatn as fed Genis 1 and 2.

’ This would also expla why Pl the Christian tradn regard homosexualy as beg, ‘ntrary to nature’ (Rom 1:26), and this would expla why the Bible refers to as an “abomatn.