0 Genesis : Homosexuality

Every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground ... Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 7:23

Trivia: What was the curse of Cain?

Genesis : Homosexuality (8)

  1. "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
    Gay Bible Stories: Noah's drunkenness (What did Ham do?)
  2. 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
  3. The two angels that visit Lot wash their feet, eat, and are sexually irresistible to Sodomites. 19:1-5
  4. God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah. This was because, so say the Christian Right, some homosexuals lived there (See 19:4-5). 19:24-25
    Sodom's sin
  5. "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking."
    What did Sarah see that disturbed her so much? 21:9
    Ishmael and Isaac: What did Sarah see?
  6. Jacob's thigh 32:24-30
  7. There's something about Joseph 37-41
  8. After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto thy brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and ... when he went in unto his brother's wife ... he spilled it on the ground.... And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of masturbation, homosexuality, and birth control. 38:8-10

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