So, my parents are pretty religious so I have to to fucking Bible study or some shit. Apparently homosexuality is immoral. Immoral my ass. With no authority whatsoever I can say FUCK RELIGON. Catholicism is bullshit.
Basically they were talking about “sexual immorality” started pressing them to provide detail. They rambled about how gay sex is immoral. And topped it off with “we should accept them still” yes Simon you daft bastard, you totally meant that last bullshit. I’m so tired of us being seen as abominations
Studying the Bible is always a hilarious way to spend time, especially when you take a REALLLY good look at the part about man laying with another man. It seems it may have been edited well after the fact. I had recently heard something similar about the original hebrew word being that a man shall not lay with a boy, which if true would be more about outlawing pedophilia, but I haven’t looked it up myself so I cannot verify the validity.
not a subscriber so cant read the article linked, but its not exactly “man shall not lay with boy”, but “man shall not lay with male”, which some posit (if i remember right) refers to a practice in ancient greece of “man” (a class, allowed to own property, etc) taking a male lover, often fairly young/underage. This is supported by it matching the language used in ancient greece, and all other shalls and shall-nots in the torah referring only to man and/or woman, not male/female.
Edit:
Found the passage, leviticus 20:13, forbids יש (man) from laying with זכר (male).
Edit 2:
Found the opinion piece
I was mentioning two separate things. The article linked did indeed day man with male, but then proceeds to point out how it doesn’t really fit with the rest of them, and yes it is very much opinion.
The other bit I had heard from a random podcast that was not at all about religion, and so while I find it interesting that they had heard it a different way, it’s very much unverified as it’s just word of mouth from random people and not language experts.
Random side note: I’m also not a subscriber and managed to get into the whole article… I guess my pop up blocker isn’t playing around these days.
One thing you learn when actually reading the bible is just how punishment heavy it is
Riding your horse to church? Fucking degenerate scum
Working on the Sunday? That’s the death penalty
yeah I even remember some school board banning the bible because it is not appropriate to children