The lengths that some people will go through to lie to themselves and others so they can continue sodomizing each other.
I read the whole Torah carefully, and gay male sex is definitely and specifically prohibited.
Otoh, lesbian sex is not mentioned.
In other words, another clergyman defending his own predilections. How will the Jewish race ever “increase and multiply and fill the earth” if they follow this gay Pied Piper?
“Is it not cruel to condemn an individual from doing that which his biological and genetic makeup demand that he do?”
A murderer might argue the same thing. The Torah is an instruction manual, e.g., Ten Commandments, not Ten Suggestions. I would expect that any exceptions to something so emphatically and repeatedly forbidden would have been made clear in the text, not suddenly discovered some 4000 years later.
Bump for Later.
The logic on adultery should be exactly the same. This rabbi seems to say that if you choose to fool around even though you are not attracted to anyone outside your marriage, that is a sin - but if you really really want to have sex with a person you are not married to, then it’s okay.
Is Shlomo a Homo?
Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 specifically apply here:
"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."
I am an Evangelical Zionist but make this personal observation: There’s as many homosexuals in Judaism today as there are ants at a typical church picnic
Riskin’s always been a lefty. I think he’s an “animal righter,” too.
Bookmarked.