I would recommend "Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality" by John Boswell
to anyone wanting to seriously explore the issue of homosexuality and Christianity/ the Bible.
It appears very few times, and when it does it is dubious, for example some of the words currently translated as "homosexual" were previously translated (up until around 40 years ago) as "five knuckle-shufflers".
There is also the idea that a modern, loving, egalitarian homosexual relationship is closer to the sort of intimate friendships enjoyed by, for example, Ruth and Naomi and Jonathan and David in the Bible, which are celebrated, than to the type of acts the Bible (possibly) describes.
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lucifer101, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 17:42,
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