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Things get somewhat dicey here. ST Mary of The Angels (where we went for Evensong) pulled out of the Episcopal diocese some years ago principally for its gay infiltration. They’re pretty conservative in this overall. Yet the only Biblical condemnation of lesbianism is again from Paul as we were discussing before concerning women’s roles in the Church.

Again, Orthodox Judaism forbids female rabbis, and may have evolved some Talmudic prohibition of lesbianism, but it’s not forbidden anywhere in Tanach that I know of. And once more there’s Conservative Judaism where there was a woman at Beth Meier sometimes who was studying for the rabbinate, and I think she was a lesbian.

Thus it can get dicey depending on where one’s interpretation lies. But male homosexuality is clearly “abomination” in both Orthodox Judaism and Christianity.