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Howard Brazee howard
Wed Aug 17 10:25:55 PDT 2005

Casey Rousseau wrote:

>>both the old testament and new testament state it's wrong
>>(read: a sin) for a man to sleep with a man and a woman to
>>sleep with a woman.
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>Hold on.  Please provide citations for "it's wrong...for...a woman to sleep
>with a woman."  I recall no discussion of women engaging in homosexuality in
>either Testament.
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Context is also important.   Onan's sin of spilling his seed upon the 
ground was in that he was unwilling to do his duty and get his new wife 
pregnant.   Small societies place huge importance in getting enough 
members to survive & prosper.   The Greeks' acceptance of homosexuality 
was tempered by demanding that they also have children.   Is the sin of 
homosexuality "failure to have children"?