This one is an opinion piece. It is My opinion, and is based on many things, only a few will I share in the evidence for my point. This is a very hot topic because of: Political Correctness(PC) – supported by Social Justice(SJ,a phrase which only has a meaning of “What society considers justice today is just.” This has been the downfall of mankind since the beginning of mankind. Okay, so what is the big deal with PC and SJ, if you can walk on water, then a constantly changing definitions of right and wrong will give you no problem. But, for the rest of the human species, one group rises up to slaughter another group because they have determine it to be PC or SJ, and the fact that murder is committed along with every other JUST Law broken, has no importance to the group. Until it happens to them for exactly the same PC and SJ.
For most people of the Three major religious groups in the world, sex between two or more men is punishable by death. According to their bibles.
This is not a law instituted by man, but declared by the GOD of Abraham , GOD of Issac, the GOD of Jacob, as an abomination and abhorrent. HE defined not only the offense but also the results.
18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.
20:13 And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
22: 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
25:16 For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
26:16 This day the LORD thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore observe and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
I wonder if parading before the PLACE HE PLACED HIS NAME, is not like “Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.”
It is better to read the complete account: Numbers 25.
I was going to say 1 thru 13, but I read the rest of the chapter again and it is all important.
My writing will probably not change anything. Most readers will get little or nothing out of this. Although this is a sign of the LAST DAY, where the ALMIGHTY will execute justice HIMSELF. Read Isaiah 63 complete. You are either for the ALMIGHTY or you are his enemy. Pray for understanding and your correction that you might be HIS as described in this text. This is NOT the only place punishment is declared, but a powerful one, don’t you think?
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, 16 in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. . . . .
It really is not too difficult, but it is worth everything.
Yaakov