Rob McGee
Rob McGee
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

We should note first that the imagined scenario is a married man committing adultery with another male.

Really? Where did you get the idea that the man is necessarily married? I doubt you could find any rabbi trained in Classical Hebrew who would support the idea that the original language limits the scope of the text to married men.

I’m neither Christian nor Jewish, but as far as I know, the overwhelming rabbinical consensus is that the “as with a woman” phrase is a euphemism for “penetrating the hole between the legs,” and does NOT refer to the man’s marital status. In other words, the death penalty in Lev. 20:13, and perhaps the term “abomination” in general, applied to anal sodomy (and maybe to fellatio as well, on the grounds that “orifice penetration” was involved”), but did not apply to non-penetrative homosexual caresses and mutual masturbation and frottage, etc.

Personally, I think it’s comical to suggest that the Creator Of The Universe considers non-procreative sexual pleasure to be inherently immoral merely because it’s non-procreative, as all homosexual acts are. And I think that a lot of Christian traditionalists embarrass themselves by saying that all homosexual behavior is immoral, regardless of the relationship context in which it occurs. They may flatter themselves that they are “holding up moral standards,” but to say that loving and monogamous homosexuality is in the same category as exploitative and promiscuous homosexuality is nothing but a dumbing-down of moral standards.

However, the stupidity and laziness of some traditional moralists does not justify misreading a Biblical verse to say “oh, as long as there’s no adultery involved, you’re in the clear.”

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    Rob McGee

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    Openly homosexual man, but “gay” sounds stupid. Anti-anal, pro-Frot. Bible-believing atheist. Non-Randroid libertarian. Can “гаварить па-рюсски” a little.

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