Homosexuality in the Bible

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1. Genesis
2. "And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him."
   What did Ham do? Did he just look at his naked father or was there something more to it than that? Some commentators have suggested that Ham committed homosexual rape on his drunken father, and that this was why Ham's descendants were eternally punished with slavery. 9:24
3. This verse doesn't say what the Sodomites did to make them such exceedingly great sinners, though most bible believers equate "Sodomite" with homosexual. (But see Ezekiel 16:49, which claims the sins of Sodom were pride, gluttony, sloth, greed, and failure to help the poor.) 13:13
4. The two angels that visit Lot wash their feet, eat, and are sexually irresistible to Sodomites. 19:1-5
5. God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah. 19:4-5, 24-25
6. What did Sarah see? 21:9
   Leviticus
7. Homosexual acts are an abomination to God. 18:22
8. If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13
   Deuteronomy
9. Women are not to wear men's clothing -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5
10. God says not be bring any whore, sodomite, or dog into the house of the Lord. For "these things are an abomination to the Lord." Sodomites and dogs are biblical names for homosexuals. 23:17-18
    
    Ruth
11. Ruth loved Naomi as Adam loved Eve.
    (Or so say the folks at WouldJesusDiscriminate.org) 1:14 1 Samuel
12. "The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul ... And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments ... and his girdle." 18:1-4
13. "Jonathan ... delighted much in David." 19:2
14. Saul is angered by his son's homosexual affair with David and says, "do not I know that thou has chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion of thy mother's nakedness?" 20:30
15. Saul is a good example for Christian parents that discover that they have a homosexual child: try to kill the child and his or her lover. 20:31-33
16. David and Jonathan "kissed one another, and wept with one another" when they parted for the last time. 20:41 2 Samuel
17. David loved Jonathan more than women. (And he loved a lot of women a lot!) 1:26 1 Kings
18. "There were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations...."
    God shows his homophobia by calling gay people "sodomites" and their sexual relations "abominations." 14:24
19. Asa "did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD" by expelling homosexuals (or "sodomites", as the good book calls them). 15:12
20. Jehoshaphat "did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord" and "took" the homosexuals (sodomites) "out of the land," or as the RSV says, "he exterminated" them. 22:43, 46 2 Kings
21. Josiah, with God's approval, broke down the houses of the sodomites. 23:7
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Isaiah
22. "They declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!"
    The biblical god just doesn't seem to care much for homosexuals. And he gets especially upset when "they hide it not." 3:9
    
    
    Daniel
23. "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women."
    The antichrist is gay!
    (Or so says Rev. Dwight McKissic of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Texas, citing this verse as proof.) 11:37
    Joel
24. They "have given a boy for a harlot." 3:3
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Matthew
25. What was the relationship between the centurion and his slave? Were they a gay couple? If so, Jesus didn't seem to mind. 8:5-13
26. "There are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb." Is Jesus talking about homosexuals here? 19:12 Mark
27. One of the followers of Jesus was a young, nearly naked man who dropped his linen cloth and "fled from them naked" when the priests came to arrest Jesus. 14:51-52
    John
28. "There was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." 13:23-25
29. "The disciple standing by, whom he loved" 19:26
30. "The disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper" 21:20 Acts
31. Was the eunuch that Philip baptized gay? 8:36-38 Romans
32. With his usual intolerance, Paul condemns homosexuals (including lesbians). This is the only clear reference to lesbians in the Bible. 1:26-28
33. Homosexuals (those "without natural affection") and their supporters (those "that have pleasure in them") are "worthy of death." 1:31-32 1 Corinthians
34. Paul lists ten things that will keep you out of heaven, including homosexuality and being "effeminate." 6:9-10
    
    
    
    
    
    
    1 Timothy
35. Homosexuals (those "that defile themselves with mankind") are included on the list of lawless, disobedient, unholy, and profane people. 1:10 2 Timothy
36. Iin the last days people will become evil, "without natural affection." Fundamentalist say that this refers to homosexuals. 3:3
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Jude
37. God sent "eternal fire" on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah for "going after strange flesh." 7-8 Revelation
38. "The hundred and forty and four thousand ... which were not defiled with women"
    Are the 144,000 men that are "not defiled by women" homosexuals? Are only gay men to be saved? 14:1-4
39. "Dogs [homosexuals?], sorcerers, whoremongers, idolaters" and along with anyone who ever told a lie will not enter the heavenly city. 22:15