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I hear you. But my memory is that homosexual anal sex is punishable by fire. Tomorrow I’ll be near a better library than my home’s, so I’ll look into it more thoroughly.

It took me awhile, but this is the passage I was thinking of:

Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

If you find any other example (not counting the burning of children to Moloch -- because God was condemning those actions), I'd be interested. 'Put to death' might compass various means, but I believe the direction to burn an offender with fire is only in the Leviticus 20:14 reference. Thanks.

Kind of a mootish point though. Someone burnt this teenager to death (after apparently clubbing him over the head). I seriously doubt it was an Israeli as I think they'd be content with a bullet if it was strictly an act of revenge. And I doubt going after a random single teenager would explain the revenge factor. Probably other factors are involved.

You are probably extrapolating from Genesis 19 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

As for Islam, Almost all sahabas agreed on severe punishment for homosexual. Some agree they should be burned and stoned, other said they should be thrown from height and then stoned, some said they should just be stoned, but most agreed, their punishment would be death.