Millie210:
Did the Bible condemn homosexual practices because it doesnt move the human race forward? No offspring are produced. This breaks the command to become fruitful and multiply.
It may have been so, Millie. It certainly was in the view of some Confucianists. Takes a bit of puzzling out, though. If such an objection came from Yahweh, how many children do you think he wanted women to have?
Here's a chart showing the birthrate for the world:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
I think, one way to see the ancient world, is that women were baby factories, producing kids for the armies of the time. Would you like to live in that sort of world?
Would that be God's will for humanity?
And, then think of the change in attitudes. When you consider that less than 100 years ago, in the west, most families were much larger. My father was one of of 12 kids, my uncle had 16. My mother's family only had four, because after the 4th kid, my grandmother locked her husband out of her bedroom, and refused to have sex with him anymore.
Are people who only have a couple of kids, sinning against the divine purpose. The Catholic church thinks they are!!!
In early Christianity, there was a cult of virginity. Christian women refused to have sex. Did they sin?
.... If that were the reason for the injunction against homosexual practices,
Interestingly, my studies have included an examination of two areas of the world where sex between men was common in the past. One was ancient Greece, and one was Tokugawa Japan. In that era in Japan, it is considered that male to male sex was normative. Yet most of those men were also married and had children. However, I do not think they were 'gay' in the sense that we use the word today. They just lived in a time/place where there were few inhibitions about male to male sex.
And social pressure can affect men in other ways, as today -p lots of gay men get married (think family, social and religious pressure) and have kids.
How do you think that information affects your idea?
