What does the Bible say about Homosexuality

Two new articles have come to my attention that prompted me to make this post. Please read on.

Study Shows Increase in Homosexual Experimentation
By AFA JournalJanuary 11, 2006
(AgapePress) - According to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more women are experimenting with homosexual activity.
The report was based on data collected in 2002 in the National Survey of Family Growth. It found 11 percent of women said they had had a sexual experience with another woman. That is compared to 4 percent of women who said the same thing in a 1992 survey.
Younger women, however, were even more likely to experiment with homosexuality. According to an article in the Washington Post, 14 percent of women in their late teens and 20s claimed to have had a same-sex experience.
Some experts said more and more young people simply see such experimentation as a rite of passage. "It's very safe in the [college and university] academic community; no one thinks anything of it," Elayne Rapping, a professor of American studies at the University of Buffalo, told the Post.
In fact, said the article, lesbian experimentation, even among heterosexual women, has become so chic on campuses that some jokingly refer to being "lesbian until graduation," or "LUG," said Craig Kinsley, a neuroscientist at the University of Richmond. Kinsley studies the biology of sexual orientation and gender.
Men appear less willing to experiment with homosexuality, but the percentage has still increased. The CDC report said 6 percent of men in their teens and 20s said they had had a same-sex experience in their lifetime. In 1992, 4.9 percent said they had done so.
However, when it came to self-identifying as homosexual, the percentages of the U.S. population that appear to be homosexual was as small as in other surveys -- only 2-3 percent, according to the CDC study.
Link to this article.


CDC Study: Syphilis, Chlamydia Rates Jump
By AFA JournalJanuary 11, 2006
(AgapePress) - A recent report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that syphilis rates in the country rose for the fourth consecutive year. The rise was due primarily to the increase in risky sexual behavior among homosexually active men.
"Syphilis has increased 8 percent during 2003-2004," said Dr. John M. Douglas, director of the CDC division for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). "The overall increase is attributable to men who have sex with men."
The CDC stated that 64 percent of all adult cases of primary and secondary syphilis were among homosexually active men -- a huge jump from the 5 percent of cases represented by that category in 1999.
Chlamydia, an STD which is linked to cervical cancer, also increased last year -- up about 6 percent. While the CDC had reports of nearly 930,000 cases of chlamydia in 2004, public health experts with the agency estimate as many as 2.8 million new cases each year.
Gonorrhea rates reached their lowest level in the U.S. since the government began tracking the disease in 1941. However, that good news was tempered by the fact that, in 28 cities, a CDC survey found an increase in cases of gonorrhea that were resistant to antibiotics.
Once again, the homosexual community experienced the worst of the news: The incidence of drug-resistant gonorrhea was eight times higher among homosexual men than for heterosexuals.
These STDs -- and others such as AIDS, genital herpes and human papilloma virus (HPV) -- are more than simply a public health issue. The CDC press report noted: "CDC estimates that 19 million STD infections, including HIV and other non-notifiable STDs, occur each year. In addition to their immediate and long-term health consequences, these diseases result in direct medical costs of an estimated $13 billion annually."
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Let's study what the Bible says about homosexuality.

In Romans 1:26-27 The Apostle Paul is very specific:
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”

He went on to write in 1 Corinthians 6:9,
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.”
The Greek word from which the King James Bible gets the word “effeminate” is malakos, which literally means something soft to the touch, but is used as a negative metaphor to refer to a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man. The “abusers of themselves with mankind” are those men who engage in unnatural sexual relations with other men – homosexuals. That is also how the NASB, the NKJV, and the NIV translate that verse.

Also in the New Testament is Jude 1:5-7. It says:
"Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. "

That really does spell it out very clearly.

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