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Oh, one other interesting thing from the book, a gay evangelical Christian claiming that even the Old Testament didn't condemn homosexuality. For example, there's the passage:
"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination."
His defence: "In biblical times, there was no parity between men and women. Women and children were just a little but above slaves. To lie with a man like a woman was to disgrace him. It's what soldiers did to their conquered enemies, they raped them."
And with "... Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error."
His defence: "Paul is preaching here against pagan cultic practices- the loveless sex that went on in the idolatrous temples of the day."
Weird...
"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination."
His defence: "In biblical times, there was no parity between men and women. Women and children were just a little but above slaves. To lie with a man like a woman was to disgrace him. It's what soldiers did to their conquered enemies, they raped them."
And with "... Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error."
His defence: "Paul is preaching here against pagan cultic practices- the loveless sex that went on in the idolatrous temples of the day."
Weird...