No, I can't. So what?
You have to go back about, what, 5,000 years for your most recent example of God's punishment? against gays Also, if you read the story, you'd know that the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gommorah was a little more subtle, and less cut and dried than what you're characterizing.
In any event, no such "punishments" occurred in the New Testament. Last time I checked, THAT'S the Covenant we're operating under.
The Judaic law proscribed the death penalty for adultery too, didn't it?
And the "law & order" crowd in Jerusalem was about to stone a woman to death for it, if I recall.
Some here would have been the ones throwing the stones, I guess.
They were legally within their rights to do so.
But what did Jesus do?
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Truly timeless wisdom.
I'll follow Christ's example: mercy and forgiveness.
You can have fun with the whole "judgement" thing.
Have a nice day.
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If you cannot show comparable wrath of God, how can you say they are comparable?
You have to go back about, what, 5,000 years for your most recent example of God's punishment? against gays Also, if you read the story, you'd know that the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gommorah was a little more subtle, and less cut and dried than what you're characterizing.
More subtle than trying to rape two Angels? I'm sure it wasn't that one incident, but instead was the consequence of an entire history of similar incidents.
We see the same sort of behavior in the attempted Homosexual rape leading up to the Battle of Gibeah.
I take from these disparate examples that this is the usual behavior of homosexuals when they attain a critical mass percentage within a population.
In any event, no such "punishments" occurred in the New Testament. Last time I checked, THAT'S the Covenant we're operating under.
The New Testament did not repeal the old.
The Judaic law proscribed the death penalty for adultery too, didn't it?
Don't look now, but the terminology which has been translated into English as the word "Adultery", means any sex outside of the confines of marriage, and in the context of the time and language in which it is written, applies to homosexuality.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
And there it is, the go-to rationalization for tolerating the entire spectrum of illicit behavior. It is in fact a form of fallacy argument that we now know of as "Tu quoque."
I think the historically ubiquitous aversion to tolerating homosexuality has more to do with survival than it does with any concern about "sinning."
You may not have noticed, but they have a tendency to spread dangerous diseases, turn traitor, molest boys, and kill people, including themselves, most often by suicide.
They are not healthy people, either mentally or physically.
The feelings-uber-alles people who like to throw the cast-the-first-stone passage always invoke the mercy and forgiveness aspect of it, but never the ‘go forth and sin no more’ repentance part.
Sinning no more and repentance are just too inconvenient for their feelings-uber-alles enslavement.