MUSLIMS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT. EPISODE 5️⃣: Homosexuality in other Semitic Religions

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*MUSLIMS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT*

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*EPISODE 5️⃣: Homosexuality in other Semitic Religions*

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The Old Testament is followed by millions of Jews and Christians, and it too forbids men from having sexual relations with men. Chapters 18 and 20 of Leviticus lists prohibited forms of intercourse:

*_"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”_*

[Leviticus 18:22]

_*"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”*_

Leviticus 20:13]

Deuteronomy 22:5 states: *_“A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wears women’s clothing, for the Lord, your God, detests anyone who does this.”_*

This is a prohibition of cross-dressing.

The New Testament also condemns homosexual practices. Romans 1:26-27 states: 

*_"Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”_*

Paul wrote in the First Epistle to the Corinthians 6:9-11 states: 

*_"Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men; nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were.”_*

The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

_To be continued... إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎_

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