Did Bible times know of homosexual orientation?

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If ancient peoples, including the Jews, did not know about people born with a homosexual orientation or couples who mutually commit to one another, should their uninformed negative judgments prevail in contemporary society?

 The Revisionist Answer

 The existence of mutual, respectful, permanent homosexual or lesbian relationships where love prevails was unknown in the past. Ancient disapproval of homosexuality concerns homosexual rape, pederasty, or other aggressive forms that most homosexuals also condemn. It is inappropriate to carry over this situation to address the kind of homosexual living taking place today.
The Biblical Answer

 Ancient writings show considerable knowledge of committed homosexual relationships. Probably these peoples knew of respect, mutuality, and love experienced in some homosexual relationships. Symposium of Plato and other sources discusses these matters in a very positive light. Surely, many Greeks and Romans probably lived this way. However, even Plato came to question the costs of this liberality in the last work of his life. In Laws, he called on religion and the state to prohibit homosexual behavior to enable a person to be a virtuous citizen 
De Young, J. B. (2000). Homosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature and Law (pp. 291–292). Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications.

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