In the Old and New
Testaments of the Bible, homosexuality is addressed and not
accepted as practices, but instead unnatural sin. Examples of
presentation is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, nor is
it acceptable to God, despite not being part of the Ten Commandments.
OLD TESTAMENT
The first mention of homosexuality is
in the
Book of Genesis 18:16-19:29
that details an encounter of the people of Sodom, specifically in
Genesis
19:4-13 …
Before
they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the
house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; and
they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came
to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with
them." But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the
door behind him, and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act
wickedly. Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations
with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them
whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they
have come under the shelter of my roof." But they said, "Stand
aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in as an
alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you
worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came near
to break the door. But the men reached out their hands and brought
Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And they struck the
men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small
and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the
doorway. Then the men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A
son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have
in the city, bring them out of the place; for we are about to destroy
this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord
that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."
[wording is EMTV and not original King James version, but source link
is directed to the KJV]
A Madison County school board voted unanimously to alter a monument at the
entrance of a Georgia high school football stadium in order to remove
biblical scripture. The monument was erected in August and two
different groups sent letters to the school stating that the monument
violates the separation of church and state, demanding it be removed.
There were two references to scriptures:
