>>Indeed, Judaism may be said to have invented the notion of >>homosexuality,
http://www.google.com/#q=praised+be+he+who+permits+the+forbidden
>>in the ancient world sexuality
>>was not divided between heterosexuality
>>and homosexuality. That division was the Bible’s doing.
That assertion is a load of manure. Sex is, and the sexes are, a product of natural selection which empowered species with greater reproductive fitness.
An Individual does not have to subscribe to Biblical literalism in order to observe the self-evidently cancerous nature of demoralization within a self-worshiping culture.
To my knowledge the OT was first in universally condemning male homosexuality. If you are aware of an earlier condemnation, please cite it.
Though doing the same for lesbianism would have undermined male dominated polygamous marriage and concubinage prevalent at the time. It wasn’t until NT Romans 1:26 that lesbianism followed suit.
In older cultures males were omnisexual with a preference for human females. That is plain in the historical record of ancient Greece, Rome, and in present Moslem societies, especially Arab and Urdu. It is not considered “homosexuality” in those cultures unless the human female is shunned in favor of other males. It is/was, in fact considered normal in those cultures for young boys to be the sex objects of adult men until they are themselves adult men. Your discomfort with Judaeo-Christianity is curious. The “normalization” of pure homosexuality and pansexuality is being forced on modern Western Civilization now.