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Christian Legal Centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A Christian street preacher has accused a judge of trying to “censor” the Bible after he was convicted of a public order offence for quoting an Old Testament passage condemning homosexuality. Mike Overd was fined £200 for quoting part of a passage from Leviticus 20 which condemns same-sex relationships as sinful and calls for gay men to be put to death. But District Judge Shamim Ahmed Qureshi told Overd he could instead have chosen a separate passage in Leviticus 18 which merely describes homosexuality as an “abomination” but does not specify death as a punishment. He acquitted the former paratrooper, who regularly preaches on the streets of Taunton, Somerset , of a separate charge for suggesting that the Prophet Mohammed was a “paedophile”. Overd, represented in court by the barrister Paul Diamond and supported by the Christian Legal Centre , was convicted of breaching Section Five of the Public Order Act which deals

Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt (1659) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) To determine whether God considers homosexuality a universal wrong, one should consider other references to the practice. The defense of the thesis that homosexuality was the sin of Sodom and Gibeah provides support identifying its universality. Interpretation cannot relegate Sodom and Gibeah to Jewish ritual or ceremonial law. Most revisionist interpreters admit that Sodom was destroyed centuries before God gave the Law. The existence of toʿeba in Ezekiel 16, argues for the universality of the prohibition of sodomy. There, three terms—zōnāh, toʿeba, and zimmah—seem to be synonymous. Ezekiel compares Jerusalem to Sodom and says that she has walked according to Sodom’s abominations (vv. 46ff.). In verse 50, Ezekiel applies toʿeba to Sodom. Paul clearly describes homosexuality as the sin to which God delivers the Gentiles because they turn to idolatry (Rom. 1:24–27). Paul’s desc

Uniting Church in Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Rouge liberal Uniting Church  locum-pastor Roger Munson sees nothing incompatible between the teachings of Jesus Christ and same-sex marriages. All conservative Christian church leaders remain at the forefront of organised opposition to the legalisation of homosexual marriage. But Mr Munson, a Canberra Uniting Church minister, is a registered celebrant under the ACT's marriage homosexual law and will preside at the wedding of a male couple this weekend. He has organised commitment ceremonies for homosexual couples in the past and said he was happy for gay and lesbian couples to marry . Munson lacks understanding of Biblical moral law which Jesus spoke very clearly about. When asked a question on divorce Jesus outlined the biblical concept of marriage as ordained by God being between a man and a woman for life.   Munson illustrates either his lack of knowledge, poor understanding or biblical moral law or rebellion

English: A rammeside-period ostraca depicting a man having sex with another man(?) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Sexual desire directed toward members of one’s own sex. Female homosexuality is frequently called lesbianism, from the Island of Lesbos , where the Greek poetess Sappho (reputedly homosexual) lived ca. 600 B.C. Traditionally homosexuality was the sin for which Sodom was destroyed by divine judgment, hence the popular term “sodomy.” This interpretation depends upon uncertain translation, while Ezekiel 16:49–50 and Sirach 16:8–9 give other reasons for the judgment. The assumption of homosexuality in Sodom dates from the Greek occupation of Palestine, when “the Greek sin” seriously endangered Jewish youth and strong scriptural warning was necessary. Homosexuality had been condemned in both Leviticus (18:22; 20:13), where it is abhorrent to God , defiling, punishable by death , and in Deuteronomy (23:18), where it is forbidden to bring the hire of harlot or homosexual (“dog”)