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Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
Orthodoxy Today ^ | September 1993 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/29/2015 12:02:24 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.

This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women.

It is probably impossible for us, who live thousands of years after Judaism began this process, to perceive the extent to which undisciplined sex can dominate man's life and the life of society. Throughout the ancient world, and up to the recent past in many parts of the world, sexuality infused virtually all of society...

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TOPICS: Education; History; Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; indiana; mikepence; rfra; sodomite; sodomy
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To: Jan_Sobieski

He wrote that Kinsey said homosexuality was almost not found in Orthodox Jews. Maybe they don’t have the gene for it.
I wish I knew what the Talmud wrote about why G-d forbade homosexuality. Can’t Google it.


21 posted on 04/29/2015 6:30:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Here you are Babylon_times!


22 posted on 11/15/2015 3:31:39 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Wow! Great article! Most people think they will be free if are just able to break the judeo-christian shackles that bind them, but little do they know that they are destroying the very ground in which they stand...


23 posted on 11/16/2015 9:58:02 AM PST by babylon_times
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Exactly!


24 posted on 11/16/2015 1:10:26 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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