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The Controversial Jesus - Jesus and the Gay Community

Church of the City New York

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Leviticus: Is It Coercive Sex?

Leviticus is trying to do more than outlaw unwonted same sex assault or behavior, when homosexuality is condemned amongst the assyrians or the hittites. There's no suggestion in leviticus that we're talking about this narrow kind of exploit if behavior. The phras as with a woman is significant because calls to mind genesis too, where god made the first woman from the side of the man, and he lay with her as a unique compliment. So it seems strange to me that god holds women in such high regard. And then the next passage is saying, if you become like a woman, that you're committing some sort of cultural sin. I don't think that

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