Levic 18 on homosexualy and same-sex marriage--Klghoffer Bible prospery Ameri natn gay Canaane - Belief

Contents:

• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE BIBLE
• SAME SEX MARRIAG: LEVIC GAY MARRIAGE

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

13 “If a man practic homosexualy, havg sex wh another man as wh a woman, both men have mted a ttable act.

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE BIBLE

Dershowz is a biblil 21, ChaseNo text has had a greater fluence on attus toward gay people than the biblil book of Levic, which prohibs sex between men.

Before Levic was posed, outright prohibns agast homosexual sex — whether between men or women — were practilly unheard-of the ancient world.

Once the new gloss were add to the text, the prohibns Levic agast ct no longer outlawed any same-sex uplgs; only heterosexual pairs were a later edor of Levic opposed homosexual terurse, you might wonr, wouldn’t have ma more sense for him (and was probably a him) to leave the origal bans on homosexual ct tact?

SAME SEX MARRIAG: LEVIC GAY MARRIAGE

For example, a sign clarg an office to be closed on Sundays suggts that the office is open on all other days of the, apply this prciple to Levic 18: A law clarg that homosexual ct is prohibed uld reasonably be taken to dite that non-ctuo homosexual terurse is permted. By the same token, ’s not necsary to stipulate that sex between two specific men is forbidn if a tegoril prohibn agast sex between men is already on the seems that wh the later troductn Levic of a law banng all male homosexual terurse, beme expedient to brg the earlier material up-to-date by dog away wh two now-superfluo junctns agast homosexual ct — junctns that ma sense when sex between men was otherwise edor’s cisn to ntralize old laws by wrg new gloss, stead of letg the laws altogether, is serendipo: He left behd jt enough clu for his handiwork to be n only image how different the history of civilizatn might have been had the earlier versn of Levic 18’s laws entered the biblil non.