On 2008-02-05 22:35:50 +0000, "Stephen Wilson" 
 said:

> 
> "The Master" <tardis@nospam.sdf.lonestar.org.nospam> wrote in message
> news:Pine.NEB.4.64.0802051320040.21235@sdf.lonestar.org...
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Andy Leighton wrote:
>> 
>>> What perversion are you talking about?  Is lesbianism a perversion?  Not
>>> in my eyes.
>> 
>> Leviticus Chapter 20.  God tells Moses that it is a sin for men to be with
>> animals, for women to be with animals, and for men to be with men.
>> However, God didn't say anything about a woman and a woman.  GOD BLESS
>> LESBIANS!
> 
> Well yeah, Leviticus is full of rubbish. Most of it is conveniently ignored,
> by both Jews and Christians. However, as it's virtually the only place in
> the Bible that mentions sex, it is dragged out as an excuse to pretend that
> God hates gays.

It's actually part of Leviticus known as the "Holiness Code". If you 
want to obey all of it you'd better get used to the idea of stoning 
your kid to death if he's a pain in the tonsils. In fact the Old 
Testament mentions gay sexual activity 5 times, but on the other 4 
occasions the ban is on sexual activity in association with worship of 
idols, and heterosexual activity is similarly banned.

The New Testament may refer to it 4 times, but on 2 occasions the word 
used (arsenokoites) is of highly questionable meaning and may have been 
coined by Paul himself. Whatever the case, it is an example of 'hapax 
legomena' - a word for which we have only one or two examples of usage.

Hope this helps