Homosexuality, the Bible, and us - a Jewish perspective.

From: Public Interest | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Prager, Dennis | Copyright information

The Jewish attitude towards homosexuality is strongly condemnatory. In other cultures, homosexual practices are accepted. The desexualization of God in the Hebrew Bible is an attempt to control the sexual impulses of humans and Judaism is the first religion to do so. It lists the practice among the abominations that include child sacrifice because it contradicts many essential values of Judaism such as monogamy, marriage and family. While discrimination is never desirable, a homosexual lifest...

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