[Steve_Seattle]

"Christ was a Torah observant Jew, when He walked the earth. He only came to correct where Judaism had gone wrong in His day. Anything that He did not mention, it would have been because He was in agreement with it."

Exactly. I've been saying that for years, but it bears repeating. It is amazing how supposedly intelligent people cannot grasp such a fundamental point.

Jesus didn't need to explicitly oppose homosexuality because no one in his Jewish milieu was condoning it. Paul needed to explicitly oppose it because he was the apostle to the gentiles, where homosexuality was widely accepted.

[Jim from C-Town]

Sodomy was widely practiced in the pagan communities, but it was NEVER an exclusive sexual activity. IOW: They would have sodomy as a form of domination over their slaves and for their own gratification, but it was never accepted as the optimal sexual outlet. It was also never codified in any form of law like marriage. Either monogamous or polygamous.