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Objection Stated Paul is only speaking of pederasty here, not of adult homosexual relationships , and hence the passage is misused when applied to homosexuality.   This is the viewpoint expressed by Robin Scroggs in his work The New Testament and Homosexuality. It is commonly repeated in liberal theological institutions. Biblical Response Paul speaks of “males with males committing indecent acts.” He does not say “men with boys” (and there are appropriate Greek words that Paul could have employed if he meant to communicate this idea), nor does the text give the slightest hint that this should be read into it as an assumption. The desire expressed is mutual between both the lesbians of Romans 1:26 and the homosexual males of Romans 1:27; that is, there is no evidence whatsoever that this is written in reference to pederastic relation ships . Indeed, the mutual kind of desire seen in these verses utterly refutes the simplistic assertion that these words are to be limited to pede

Image via Wikipedia Many Americans have been shocked by reports about a recent pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore in which psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, representing institutions like Harvard and Johns Hopkins, sought to present pedophilia in a sympathetic and even positive light. But why should this surprise us? Academic articles in scholarly journals have been presenting pedophilia in a sympathetic light for years, and, as Matthew Cullinan Hoffman noted, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a report in 1998 “claiming that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated’ and that ‘the vast majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from their child sexual abuse experiences.’ It even claimed that large numbers of the victims reported that their experiences were ‘positive,’ and suggested that the phrase ‘child sex abuse’ be replaced with ‘adult-child sex.’” Others have coined the more disgusting te