Scared of the Evil Marriage Abominating Gays?

You won't be after you read this.

Reading Leviticus, or ANY TEXT without, historical context tends to lead to some pretty bonko thinking. Bonko thinking tends to lead to bonko action.

Please, stop puriently focusing on whatever it is you Jack/ies think gays and lesbians "do in bed." Stop it. It's disengenuous spiritually and socially and by all the standards of debate ever established. When Jack/ies see two heterosexuals holding hands on the street, or giving each other a little peck on the cheek, do you freak yourselves out by imagining the extremely kinky and happy play those straight people might be up to in their bedroom?

No. You think, "Aw, look, they're being sweet/romantic/loving." So, stop switching the analytical frame you're using just because the sex frame lets you vent your fear, anger, mistrust and hatred. Please learn something instead. About love. About homosexuality. About heterosexuality. About sex.

The kind of "lying with a man as a woman" that Leviticus is justly unhappy about is the rape of civilian men and soldiers by victorious armies. There's tons of sources for this, I'll google some eventually and give you a list. This was not loving sexuality. This was an act of utter military domination by an oppressor. The offending soldiers were not marauding homosexuals. This was tactical rape, not sex for fun. It was intended to humiliate, to terrorize, to disempower, to stiffle and quell any thought of resistance by ... making "women" of these men.

Because then, as now, being a woman in Jack-dom is the worst thing one could be, either really or symbolically.

Because the deliberate violation of soul and will that is essential to rape is as feared by men as it is by women.

Some history -- of the Bible, of the ancient world, of sexuality, of love poetry going back forever -- these things will show that there is precious little that is not natural to the human being in its expressions of love and hate.

Ethics, that troublesome aspect of human affairs so emphasized by that troublesome Enlightenment, requires that we each remember that we choose our responses to our others, and that we are without higher appeal for the consequences of those actions for our others.

In the Enlightenment, you might ask God to forgive you your sins against your brothers and sisters, and thus save your soul. But that don't mean smack until you go and amend the damage done to your sisters and brothers. We live Here, not in the afterlife.