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pkeck pkeck
Sun Aug 21 15:22:37 PDT 2005

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:06:12AM -0400, Sethra wrote:
> and as to homosexuality... girl on girl is discussed in the bible as
> being wrong. i might have the direct scripture wrong (and i don't know
> where to find it), but it says something like women shall not grind   
> together... i am sorry if this has already been answered, but the     

I have a plain text version of the Bible which is handy for searching.  I
found this line in Luke, which could be the line you're thinking of:

17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,
and the other left.

This whole chapter is a little hard for me to decipher, BUT it seems like
more of a "do what God says and you'll be saved" kind of thing, seemingly
referring to the Rapture and how good people will be taken up to heaven when
the Son returns.  I found this after a Google:

http://bible.cc/luke/17-35.htm

The Online Parallel Bible.  Some different translations of that line:
  

There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other
will be left."  (WEB)

There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the
other shall be left.  (ASV)

Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the
other let go.  (BBE)

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other
shall be let go.  (DBY)

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other
left.  (KJV)

Two women will be grinding together; the one will be taken, and the other
left.  (WBS)

There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away
and the other left behind."  (WEY)


Doesn't sound like it's about homosexuality at all, even though the previous
line is about two men in bed together.  None of the translations intimate
any hanky-panky there.

After some other searching there are some verses which do mention
homosexuality:

http://bible.cc/1_timothy/1-10.htm
http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/6-9.htm

These mention it in the same breath with fornicators, adulterers, liars,
idolators, slavers, perjurers, people who do "any other things against the
right teaching".  I bet a lot of the folks who get all worked up about
homosexuals participate in a few of those activities.  :-)

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