I ran across a very interesting post in AllPhilosophy that bears repeating:
So why is it that God picked out homosexual men and didn’t say anything (as far as I have read) about women lying with women?
I wish to clarify: is or is not the fornication between men or between women an abomination? And how do we define abomination?
The passage you’re talking about is found in Leviticus 18:22, 20:13. This particular text was changed during the translation of the King James scribes. The original text stated that the act of a ‘man lying with a man’ is ‘toevah’. Toevah does not mean ‘abomination’. It does not even mean ‘sin’ or ‘unlawful’. It means ‘non-traditional/against tradition’ that is, it was against tradition for Jewish men to have homosexual sex.
Christians do not abide by the vast majority of the Levitical Laws, and Jesus himself takes a stand against them in Mark 7:1-23. He says the laws are ‘traditions of men’ not of God. Thus, God never said gay men were an abomination–let alone gay women.
In a completely tasteless aside: how could god be so misquoted? He was waring the following t-shirt the morning he doled out the inspiration for that part of the bible…
http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts-stock/i-only-support-gay-marriage-if-both-chicks-are-hot/
[...] Are they fucking kidding? “Breakdown of the family unit?” “The spread of dangerous, communicable diseases?” “Tears at the fabric of society?” (The total tipoff is, of course, “Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God…”) [...]
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