newzguys
2006-01-02 03:28:02 UTC
They Did Not Have Homosexuals in the Bible nor Laws Until 1970's
People that say there is a sin of homosexuality in the bible are
just ignorant of the facts of history, and the law.
Up until the 1970's the laws against sodomy were only laws against
nonprocreative sex, not homosexual sex. The very word and concept of
homosexuality did not exist commonly until 1892. Before this time
any attempt to say a law or a sin in the bible is directed
toward homosexuals is impossible. "The modern terms homosexuality
and heterosexuality do not apply to an era that had not yet
articulated these distinctions." Lawrence and Garner v. Texas US, 03
"Prohibitions against sodomy were rooted in the teachings of Western
Christianity, but those teachings have always been strikingly
inconsistent in their definition of the acts encompassed by the term.
When the term "sodomy" was first emphasized by medieval Christian
theologians in the eleventh century, they applied it inconsistently
to a diverse group of nonprocreative sexual practices." Not
homosexuals.
"The English Reformation Parliament of 1533 turned the religious
injunction against sodomy into the secular crime of buggery when it
made 'the detestable and abominable vice of buggery committed with
mankind or beast' punishable by death. The English courts interpreted
this to apply to sexual intercourse between a human and animal and
anal intercourse between a man and woman as well as anal intercourse
between two men." Again not homosexuals, but nonprocreative sex.
"Such discriminatory measures against homosexuals, although popularly
imagined to be longstanding, are in fact not ancient but a unique
and relatively short-lived product of mostly the 1970's."
It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that the very concept
of the homosexual as a distinct category of person developed. The word
"homosexual" was coined for the first time in a letter from Karl Maria
Kertbeny to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs dated 6 May 1868 and in two German
pamphlets published in 1869 in Leipzig, arguing for reform of Paragraph
143 of the Prussian Penal Code penalizing sexual relations between men.
The term after 1868 was not used by anyone else until 1880, and was
not in common use until 1892. Therefore to assign a sin of
homosexuality
to the sexual religious fertility rituals of having sex to worship
a fertility god, is an impossibility. In Lev 18:22 which is seen as a
sin of homosexuality is in fact connected to the verse before it, to
not
give seed to Molech. It is impossible to be a sin of homosexuality,
they
had no such concept of homosexuality at the time the bible was written.
"Kertbeny invented the term 'homosexuality' as part of an argument that
it was natural, and a matter of private behaviour which should be
beyond
the interference of the law. He intended it to be used as a neutral,
non-prejudicial term within legal arguments, which centred on the
concept
of equal rights and protection of minorities. 'Homosexuality' was thus
originated not as a medical term, but rather as a neutral, legal,
scientific term. "
For in depth reading see:
legal history
http://hnn.us/articles/1539.html
medical history
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/social14.htm
People that say there is a sin of homosexuality in the bible are
just ignorant of the facts of history, and the law.
Up until the 1970's the laws against sodomy were only laws against
nonprocreative sex, not homosexual sex. The very word and concept of
homosexuality did not exist commonly until 1892. Before this time
any attempt to say a law or a sin in the bible is directed
toward homosexuals is impossible. "The modern terms homosexuality
and heterosexuality do not apply to an era that had not yet
articulated these distinctions." Lawrence and Garner v. Texas US, 03
"Prohibitions against sodomy were rooted in the teachings of Western
Christianity, but those teachings have always been strikingly
inconsistent in their definition of the acts encompassed by the term.
When the term "sodomy" was first emphasized by medieval Christian
theologians in the eleventh century, they applied it inconsistently
to a diverse group of nonprocreative sexual practices." Not
homosexuals.
"The English Reformation Parliament of 1533 turned the religious
injunction against sodomy into the secular crime of buggery when it
made 'the detestable and abominable vice of buggery committed with
mankind or beast' punishable by death. The English courts interpreted
this to apply to sexual intercourse between a human and animal and
anal intercourse between a man and woman as well as anal intercourse
between two men." Again not homosexuals, but nonprocreative sex.
"Such discriminatory measures against homosexuals, although popularly
imagined to be longstanding, are in fact not ancient but a unique
and relatively short-lived product of mostly the 1970's."
It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that the very concept
of the homosexual as a distinct category of person developed. The word
"homosexual" was coined for the first time in a letter from Karl Maria
Kertbeny to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs dated 6 May 1868 and in two German
pamphlets published in 1869 in Leipzig, arguing for reform of Paragraph
143 of the Prussian Penal Code penalizing sexual relations between men.
The term after 1868 was not used by anyone else until 1880, and was
not in common use until 1892. Therefore to assign a sin of
homosexuality
to the sexual religious fertility rituals of having sex to worship
a fertility god, is an impossibility. In Lev 18:22 which is seen as a
sin of homosexuality is in fact connected to the verse before it, to
not
give seed to Molech. It is impossible to be a sin of homosexuality,
they
had no such concept of homosexuality at the time the bible was written.
"Kertbeny invented the term 'homosexuality' as part of an argument that
it was natural, and a matter of private behaviour which should be
beyond
the interference of the law. He intended it to be used as a neutral,
non-prejudicial term within legal arguments, which centred on the
concept
of equal rights and protection of minorities. 'Homosexuality' was thus
originated not as a medical term, but rather as a neutral, legal,
scientific term. "
For in depth reading see:
legal history
http://hnn.us/articles/1539.html
medical history
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/social14.htm