The Bible forbids gay sex. But an earlier versn of the text permted .
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?
* leviticus 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
What do the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage? Why are Christians so opposed to the ia of gay marriage? * leviticus gay marriage *
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?
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. While the Bible do addrs homosexualy, do not explicly mentn gay marriage/same-sex marriage.
SAME SEX MARRIAG: LEVIC GAY MARRIAGE
It is clear, however, that the Bible nmns homosexualy as an immoral and unnatural s. Levic 18:22 intifi homosexual sex as an abomatn, a ttable s. Romans 1:26–27 clar homosexual sir and actns to be “shameful” and “unnatural.