Others were tortured ... that they might obtain a better resurrection. Hebrews 11:35
Others were tortured ... that they might obtain a better resurrection. Hebrews 11:35
"And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him." 9:24
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.
Gay Bible Stories: Noah's drunkenness (What did Ham do?)
"The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly." 13:13
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.)
"There came two angels to Sodom." 19:1-5
The two angels that visit Lot wash their feet, eat, and are sexually irresistible to Sodomites.
"The men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young." 19:4
Every male in the city of Sodom wanted to have sex with Lots two angel viisitors.
"The LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven." 19:24-25
God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah. This was because, so say the Christian Right, some homosexuals lived there (See 19:4-5).
"And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking." 21:9
What did Sarah see that disturbed her so much?
Ishmael and Isaac: What did Sarah see?
"And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh." 32:24-30
"Now Israel [Jacob] loved Joseph more than all his children." 37:3-4
"Onan ... spilled it on the ground ... And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.." 38:8-10
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.
Homosexual acts are an abomination to God. 18:22
Explicit verse #1: It is abomination
If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13
Explicit verse #2: Their blood shall be upon them
"Every abomination ... the Lord ... hateth."
Including homosexuality. (Leviticus 18:22) 12:31
Women are not to wear men's clothing and vice versa -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5
God says not to 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 loved Naomi as Adam loved Eve. (Or so say the folks at WouldJesusDiscriminate.org) 1:14
The special relationship between Jonathan and David. 20:3-14
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
Saul sets an 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
Were David and Jonathan gay? 18:1-4, 19:2, 20:41
David and Jonathan
Jonathan has a secret meeting with David in the forest. David will be king, he says, and he will be right beside him. "And they two made a covenant before the LORD." 23:16-18
David loved Jonathan more than women. (And he loved a lot of women!) 1:26
When Joab (David's captain) kills Abner (by smiting him under the fifth rib of course), David says that he and his kingdom are not responsible. The blame, he says, lays with Joab. So David curses Joab, his family, and their descendants forever. Let them all be plagued with venereal diseases and leprosy, starve to death, commit suicide, or lean on staves. (The Revised Standard Version translates "leaneth on a staff" as "holds a spindle," apparently meaning effeminate -- real men don't spin or weave.) 3:27-29
"There were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations...."
This verse is often used by Bible-believers to condemn homosexuality, by interpreting "sodomites" to mean
homosexuals and their sexual relations "abominations." 14:24
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
Possibly Gay Bible Stories #5: Elijah stretched himself upon the child three times 17:17-22
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
Possibly Gay Bible Stories #6: Elisha and the dead boy 4:11-35
"Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs."
Were Jehu and Jehonadab gay? 10:15-17
Josiah, with God's approval, broke down the houses of the sodomites. 23:7
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom ... ye people of Gomorrah ... Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. (1:10-17)
These verses imply that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they didn't "do well, see judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge(?) the fatherless, and plead for the widow."
(Not for homosexuality.)
God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they didn't "do well, see judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge(?) the fatherless, and plead for the widow." (Not for homosexuality.) 1:10-17
They declare their sin as Sodom did, they don't hide it. Woe to them. They deserve the evil they will receive. 3:9
Strange Flesh: God will give eunuchs an everlasting name 56:3-5
Sodom's sin wasn't homosexuality. It was pride, greed, idleness, and refusing to help the poor.
(Republicans are the new Sodomites.)
Or maybe not. Here's the next verse:
"And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."
Was the "abomination" that the Sodomites committed the the one mentioned in Leviticus 18:22?
16:49-50
If a man has a son who misbehaves by committing abomination (Lev 18:22 type or otherwise) then that son must be killed. 18:10-13
"Ye work abomination."
According to Robert Gagnon (The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics), "toceba
[abomination] probably refers to homosexual intercourse" in this verse. 33:26
"Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire
of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all."
Some Christians think this refers
to the antichrist. (He'll be an atheist homosexual.) 11:37
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
"Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words ... It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city." 10:14-15
Jesus says nothing at all about homosexuality here. It seems to refer to inhospitality towards his disciples or (probably more likely) the rejection of their message. (See also Luke 10:10-12 and Mark 6:10-11.)
"Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?" 19:4
This verse is often used to suggest that Jesus condemned non-binary people.
"There are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb." 19:12
The term "eunuchs" here seems to refer to males who are not attracted to females -- and who were born that way. If so, such eunuchs would include homosexuals. And there is no indication here that Jesus disapproves of them.
Strange Flesh: The three types of Eunuchs (according to Jesus)
"Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you ... It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city." 6:10-11
Jesus says nothing at all about homosexuality here. It seems to refer to inhospitality towards his disciples or (probably more likely) the rejection of their message. (See also Luke 10:10-12 and Matthew 10:10-12.)
"Whatsoever city ... receive you not ... it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city."
What was Sodom's sin? 10:10-12
Jesus says nothing at all about homosexuality here. It seems to refer to inhospitality towards his disciples or (probably more likely) the rejection of their message. (See also Matthew 10:14-15 and Mark 6:10-11.)
Increase your chance of being raptured: Pray to be gay! 17:34-35
"There was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved." 13:23-25
With his usual intolerance, Paul condemns homosexuals (including lesbians). This is the only clear reference to lesbians in the Bible. 1:26-28
Homosexuals (vv. 27-28) and their supporters (those "that have pleasure in them") are
"worthy of death" - along with gossips, boasters, and disobedient children.
Some fundamentalists say that those "without natural affection"
refers to homosexuals. (It doesn't. The greek word "astorgos"
("without natural affection" in the KJV) means "without family love" and has nothing to do with homosexuality or homosexuals.
1:31-32
Paul lists ten things that will keep you out of heaven, including homosexuality and being
"effeminate." 6:9-10
Strange Flesh: Explicit verse #4 - Abusers of themselves with mankind
"There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of
Satan to buffet me." 12:7
My temptation which was in my flesh. 4:14
Some say that Paul's temptation was homosexuality.
Homosexuals (those "that defile themselves with mankind") are included on
the list of lawless, disobedient,
unholy, and profane people. 1:10
Explicit verse #5: For whom the law was made
In the last days people will become evil, "without natural affection." Some fundamentalists say that this refers to homosexuals. (It doesn't. The greek word "astorgos" ("without natural affection" in the KJV) means "without family love" and has nothing to do with homosexuality or homosexuals. 3:3
God sent "eternal fire" on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah for "going after strange flesh."
7-8
A note about the "strange flesh" of Jude 7
Are the 144,000 men that are "not defiled by women" homosexuals? Are only gay men to be saved? 14:1-4
"Dogs [homosexuals?], sorcerers, whoremongers, idolaters" and along with anyone who ever told a lie will not enter
the heavenly city.
"[T]he term 'dogs' in Rev 22:15 primarily has in view emasculated male cult prostitutes, without excluding a wider reference to any who
engage in homosexual practice." Robert Gagnon (The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics) 22:15
"The abominable"
John isn't talking about the snowman here. According to Robert Gagnon (The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics), it's homosexuals.
"The reference to 'the abominable' (ebdelygmenois) matches up with 'dogs' in [Rev] 22:15."
