God 'n' Gays

[poliphilo]

The Biblical texts that are supposed to condemn homosexuality would- if I were to print them here- fill about half a screen. They come from the Old Testament Book of Leviticus (which also condemns the eating of shellfish) and a couple of the Pauline Epistles. There is nothing- but nothing- about homosexuality in the Gospels. If God really hates fags don't you think he'd have banged on about it at least as much as Jerry Falwell used to do?

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know thy enemy

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I made the "but there's no condemnation of homosex in the Gospels" argument to a fundamentalist christian a while ago.

I got this reply:

"Those condemnations appear wherever they are necessary, in my view, The evangelists were spreading the Good News; Paul was prescribing (and proscribing) behavior, which was his appointed job."

Re: know thy enemy

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's actually not such a bad answer.

But I return to the point that it's just not Biblical to go on and on about personal sexual behaviour. Paul's letters contain only the briefest of references to homosexual practises and Jesus, in the Gospels, says nothing about them at all.