[Alyosha3]

Both Solomon and David ran afoul with God by sinning, facts you conveniently left out. The latter for the reason you stated, the former for worshipping false idols and thus promoting idolatry. To touch on the concubine angle, he may have been influenced by his foreign concubines to embrace fertility gods.

I would posit that the homosexual lifestyle is one of self-worship, hedonism and narcissism, kinds of idolatry in our post-modern society. Just replace the golden calf with a throbbing member.

And yes, Ruth was a foreigner. But her devotion to a good Israelite, humbling herself and doing what was right made her an example for all to follow.

If we could only look past our parsing and partisanship and do the same.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The question was "How can such an abomination occur?" My point is, whether or not a gay parade would be one, abominations, by Biblical standards have long occurred in Jerusalem, by the very people that the poster I was responding to mentioned.