I am listening to a college lecture series on the high middle ages. The professor made the point that male homosexual conduct in the middle ages was punished by death. Female homosexual conduct was not even a crime. Odd.

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Scott Roberts
Ruling Elder, Lakeside Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Southlake, Texas

today, if two beautiful women kiss, men are hooping, and cheering. If two men kiss, gross.

not that that contributes anything, but I think it is indicative of us finding one act not as bad as the other.

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~Keon Garraway~ Brooklyn, NY Member of Franklin Square OPC

Love for God demonstrated by the love for our children in giving them a God centered education is the only hope for our country. by David Morrow
Pslam 71:20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Actually, I do not think it was a death penalty in the Old Testament either . . only male homosexuality.

You might want to double check though.

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Misery induces despair, pride induces presumption. The Incarnation shows man the
greatness of his misery by the greatness of the remedy which he required.
~ Pascal, Pensees 526

There is a chapter in The Bible and Birth Control by Charles Provan which deals with the difference in punishments accorded to male and female homosexual behavior and he argues that the reasons males were given the death penalty according to the Mosaic judicial code and females were not is because while such conduct by males and female is an abomination, only males spill seed and therefore violate the sixth commandment prohibition against taking/preventing life which merits the death penalty.

[Edited on 1-20-2006 by VirginiaHuguenot]

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I think the author's point (and others holding that position) is the intention behind the act, not whether all the swimmers reach their destination.

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Chris
Member at Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

Beware of a religion without holdfasts. But if I get a grip upon a doctrine they call me a bigot. Let them do so. Bigotry is a hateful thing, and yet that which is now abused as bigotry is a great virtue, and greatly needed in these frivolous times. I have been inclined lately to start a new denomination, and call it "the Church of the Bigoted." Spurgeon

Here we go again...

Since i've seen many members do this, but have never done it myself, let this be my first time.

Allow me to recommend this thread: http://www.puritanboard.com/forum/vi...d.php?tid=1465

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Mark
Independent baptist
Singapore

Provan's argument is that "male homosexuals [in contrast to female homosexuals for whom no death penalty is prescribed] are worthy of death because they emit semen outside the proper receptical contrary to nature as created by God. Thus they negate the purpose for which semen was created and 'poured out' by God (Job 10:10): procreation. Birth control does the very same thing, and so is likewise under the curse of God." (p. 19)

Hence, the sin of Onan was a "sodomitic sin" (see Martin Luther's comments on Gen. 38.8-10).

Rather than continue to discuss birth control here, which I only referenced in explaining why there exists a difference in civil punishments for male and female homosexual behavior, I would refer you to the threads on birth control, where this question has been asked and answered many times.