On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, John Klein wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Carla Hunt 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. > > Well, sort of for the Old Testament, see above. The New Testament contains > no such thing, although it does have prohibitions against rape and > beastiality (Jude 1), pederasty (Matthew 8), fertility cults (Romans 1), > and temple prostitution (1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1) which are > frequently (and, probably, deliberately) mistranslated or misconstrued as > specific prohibitions of homosexuality by people with an agenda to push. IANAX, but Paul seems clear enough in Romans 1:26/7 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: 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 recompence of their error which was meet.