| Homosexuality can refer to sexual behavior between | | | | is abomination. |
| organisms of the same sex. | | | | 4- The Message |
| The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid | | | | "Don't have sex with a man as one does with a |
| from of the Greek prefix homo- ("same"), and the | | | | woman. That is abhorrent. |
| Latin root sex, thus connoting sexual acts and | | | | According to these four different versions of the |
| affections between members of the same sex, | | | | Bible, to be a gay is detestable, abomination and |
| including lesbianism. | | | | abhorrent. |
| Gay refers to male homosexuality and Lesbian | | | | However, the sin of the gay is greater than that, |
| denotes female homosexuality. Gay and lesbian are | | | | that is why: |
| the most common alternatives of homosexual. | | | | In Leviticus 20:13, the LORD commands to kill the |
| In religious cultures, the law established sodomy as a | | | | gay! Look at these four different versions of the |
| transgression against divine law, a "crime against | | | | Bible: |
| nature" and subject to severe penalties, including | | | | 1- New International Version |
| capital punishment-often inflicted by means of fire so | | | | If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, |
| as to purify the unholy action. | | | | both of them have done what is detestable. They |
| In the 1950s, at the height of the red scare in the | | | | must be put to death; their blood will be on their own |
| United States, hundreds of federal and state | | | | heads. |
| employees were fired because of their | | | | 2- New American Standard Bible |
| homosexuality in the so-called lavender scare. | | | | If there is a man who lies with a male as those who |
| Homosexual acts are punishable by death in some | | | | lie with a woman, both of them have committed a |
| present-day countries including Iran, Mauritania, | | | | detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. |
| Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen etc. | | | | Their blood guiltiness is upon them. |
| Reform Judaism, the largest branch of Judaism | | | | 3- King James Version |
| outside Israel has begun to facilitate religious | | | | If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a |
| weddings for gay adherents in their synagogues. | | | | woman, both of them have committed an |
| Jewish Theological Seminary, considered to be the | | | | abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their |
| flagship institution of Conservative Judaism, decided in | | | | blood shall be upon them. |
| March 2007 to begin accepting gay and lesbian | | | | 4- The Message |
| applicants, after scholars who guide the movement | | | | "If a man has sex with a man as one does with a |
| lifted the ban on gay ordination. | | | | woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. |
| In 2005, the United Church of Christ became the | | | | They must be put to death; they are responsible for |
| largest Christian denomination in the United States to | | | | their own deaths. |
| formally endorse same-sex marriage. | | | | ========= |
| ========= | | | | The Gay in the Quran: |
| The Gay in the Bible: | | | | The Noble Quran considers the gay act as a big sin |
| Do not be a Gay, the LORD Commands: | | | | that deserves punishment in the afterlife. |
| In Leviticus 18:22, the LORD commands not to be a | | | | But the Quran does not command to kill the Gay! |
| gay. | | | | What if the Quran was the Book which commands |
| 1- New International Version | | | | to kill the uncircumcised, to kill the one who curses his |
| "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; | | | | parents and or to kill the Gay? What the western |
| that is detestable. | | | | media would have said? What names they have |
| 2- New American Standard Bible | | | | given the Quran in such case? |
| You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; | | | | ========= |
| it is an abomination | | | | Back to the main issue of my series of articles; this is |
| 3- King James Version | | | | my question to you smart readers: "Is the Quran |
| Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it | | | | quoted from the Bible? |