(09-03-2020, 10:41 PM)Jason Wrote: It does indeed NOT deal with homosexuality. It deals with a sex act, an act that many gay observant Jewish men do not engage in.
(1) The Torah does not say "you shall not have romantic attachments with members of the same sex."
(2) It does not say "you shall not touch another's hand or any other part of his body if he belongs to the same sex as you."
(3) It prohibits one specific activity, just as it does not prohibit eating anything and everything, but it limits what foods you can partake of.
You're reading your cultural issues into the Torah and making it say things that it doesn't say. Why? Because you think gay is icky. Well, suck it up. It's none of your business if another person is gay or lesbian or left-handed. Your nose doesn't belong in their bedroom or looking over their shoulder.
Bershit 2:24
על־כן יעזב־איש את־אביו ואת־אמו ודבק באשתו והיו לבשר אחד
Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cling to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
When men and men / women and women do things, they do not דבק and do not become one flesh. Even if they do not engage in the act itself, they are avoiding of doing a positive commandment. It's written in plain text.
Also Sedom and Amora were destroyed because of their disgusting behavior (well also for their inhospitality to strangers, but nevertheless).
Torah and the relations between men and women bring life. Homosexuality does not. It only brings freedom of action and brings more and more sins to the world.
Deut. 30:19-20
I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before thee life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
that thou mayst love the Hashem thy G-d, and that thou mayst obey His voice, and that thou mayst cleave to Him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayst dwell in the land which the Hashem swore to thy fathers, to Avraham, to Yiżĥaq, and to Ya῾aqov, to give them.
I will probably not waste my time here anymore, because I cannot help you.
You know the truth, but you just reject it.
I really hope and pray that you will do teshuva before Mashiach comes.
