WATCH: NatGeo explains the biology of homosexuality
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This is a fascinating, provocative, and illuminating linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Bible’s prohibition against male homosexuality by scholars Richard Elliot Friedman and Shawna Dolansky. authors of the book The Bible Now.
Taking the time to counter a reviewer’s charge that they had a liberal political agenda in their investigation of two different verses in Leviticus, Friedman and Dolansky hone in on a significant term that radically changes just how offensive the Hebrew Bible sees male homosexuality:
The text identifies male homosexual acts by the technical term to’ebah, translated in English here as “an offensive thing” or in older translations as “an abomination.” This is important because most things that are forbidden in biblical law are not identified with this word.
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Fran Drescher of course isn’t the only woman to have been faced with the life transformation when her spouse comes out as gay. This piece shows a little of what to expect when this happens.
Omaha area ministers will publicly unveil a proclamation on Wednesday calling for an end to religious and civil discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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WATCH: Wanda Sykes Tells Piers Morgan: It’s harder to be gay than Black in America
According to the law SB0049 (readable at http://capitol.tn.gov/), public school teachers and students from kindergarten through eight are barred from discussing the existence of homosexuals.
Is there a nation-wide race for which state can get the most ass-backwards fastest? Is Tennessee trying to take Arizona’s lead?
WATCH: The Daily Show - Minneapolis is the New Gay
And San Francisco be damned! Hilariousness. New gay = the banality of homosexuality.
J. Crew’s Gay-Inclusive May 2011 Catalogue…
features Somsack Sikhounmuong, one of their in-house designers, posing in with his boyfriend Micah. As Homorazzi.com notes, conservatives got their panties in a bunch with an earlier campaign featuring J.Crew’s president and creative director Jenna Lyons painting her son’s toenails pink, and now that the retailers shows homosexuality AND race-mixing, we are prepared for them to declare the end of days.