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Originally Posted by KU0DM
Hate was a bad word. Let me change that to "dislikes".
Still, the point I am trying to get across is that the bible never said anything about homosexuality. It never said it's wrong or right. However, it does speak of sodomy. However homosexuality and sodomy are not the same thing. So why speak out against homosexuality in a religious manner, when really it is OK according to the bible?
There is a difference between sodomy and homosexuality that is not being recognized by the Church. If it was, the Church would be OK with same sex couples, but would frown upon acts of sodomy.
Just because someone performs an act that may be an abomination, doesn't mean that the person in any way themselves is an abomination. So why should the Church support suppressing the rights of homosexuals, when there is nothing wrong with homosexuality?
Like I said, the Church can not prove beyond reasonable suspicion that any same sex couple will perform an act of sodomy.
Homosexuality is a condition or feeling one might say. Sodomy is an act.
The Bible is against the act, the Church is against the condition.
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Its not just a sodomy thing.
Leviticus 18
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
It talks of lying with another man. This could be any number of things. Not necessarily sodomy. They could just be lying down snuggling up kissing. The lying with a man is referring to homosexuality.
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Here the Bible talks about burning lust for another man. This is homosexuality. There is no mention here of sodomy.
Romans 1
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
This speaks of men having vile affections (Homosexuality) and the women going against nature. Lesbianism is against the Bible as well. Its not all about sodomy.
73
Chris