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To: Liberty2007

Actually, if you read the Old Covenant law carefully, only bestiality and male-on-male anal sodomy (among sexual sins) are listed as abhominations.

Both medieval Anglo-Saxon and Greek penitentials penanced lesbian erotic behavior either as mastrubation or as fornication—as sin, but not as sin-unto-death. (Orthodox usage makes a distinction between those sins for which were punished by execution under the Old Covenant, setting the canonical penance as excommunication with communion on the deathbed only, termed sins-unto-death, and other sins.)


26 posted on 08/18/2008 5:33:57 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

The Old Covenant law did not directly address lesbianism, though logically it would be just as much of an abomination as homosexuality among males. Paul, however, in Romans Chapter 1 clearly states the evil of lesbianism and attributes the practice to those particularly degenerate cultures.


34 posted on 08/18/2008 6:35:02 AM PDT by MBB1984
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