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To: thoughtomator
"The Old Testament"

Ah, okay. I know there are some Jewish writings not in our Old Testament, so I was curious.

We could get into a whole debate about why you don't believe the New Testament based on the prophesies of the Old Testament, but we'll reserve that for another thread. :)

Anyway, since you believe that the OT does not forbid lesbianism, does that mean lesbianism is okay from a Jewish standpoint? I thought Jews looked at that as an overall principle and believed that what the OT says about homosexuality applied to both male and female.

147 posted on 04/07/2005 10:08:44 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

I'm not going to venture whether lesbianism is "okay" or not. I don't think it is; I think it mostly harmless, yet wasteful and trivial, but I can't point to a scripturally certain reference to back that up. With men, there simply cannot be any mistake about it.

I am making this point to emphasize that male homosexuality is a serious physical danger to the participants and the community in which they live, something that cannot be said of females. When we deal with the LGBT crowd it is essential that we keep in mind our interest and the reasons why. We should not let ourselves be distracted with the issue of lesbianism because that issue is completely unimportant when compared with the clear and present danger of male homosexuals. Women and men are different in important ways, and in sexuality especially; we should not fall victim to the unspoken-but-generally-accepted feminist rule of having to have equivalent rules for the two sexes.


149 posted on 04/07/2005 10:15:11 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
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