Homophobia is manmade

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philman132 on October 13rd, 2020 at 08:39 UTC »

I'd like this to be true, but it seems way too convenient for it not to be pretty well known amongst gay circles already

c0d3rman on October 13rd, 2020 at 10:17 UTC »

Yeah, as a native Hebrew speaker, this is sadly not true. Leviticus 18:22 says nothing about young boys. The word it uses, זָכָ֔ר, means "male". Here's a word-by-word breakdown. This is really just an attempt by people to retrofit the Bible to align with modern sensibilities. For example, the other big anti-gay verse in the Bible - Leviticus 20:13 - makes it clear this is not about protecting children from pedophiles, since the punishment for male-male sex there is death for both participants:

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. (Leviticus 20:13, NIV).

If this was really about anti-pedophilia, then why put the kid to death? The answer is because it's just plain homophobia, even if it was inspired mostly by the social context of man-boy relationships.

ethmer25 on October 13rd, 2020 at 11:38 UTC »

I agree with everything up until the last part. Wasnt David's whole thing cheating on his queen with a dead soldier's wife?? I might get bisexual, but theres no way hes gay. The whole point if the story is to not fall to temptation and betray God. IT DOESNT WORK IF HE WASMT TEMPTED