Sodomy

Sodomy (

In current usage, the term is particularly used in law. Laws prohibiting sodomy were seen frequently in past Jewish, Christian, and Islamic civilizations, but the term has little modern usage outside Africa, Asia, and the United States.^[11]

These laws in the United States have been challenged and have sometimes been found unconstitutional or been replaced with different legislation.^[12]

The word sod, a noun or verb (to "sod off") used as an insult, is derived from sodomite.^[13][14] It is a general-purpose insult term for anyone the speaker dislikes without specific reference to their sexual behaviour. Sod is used as slang in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and is considered mildly offensive. (The word 'sod' also has a meaning of "(clump of) earth" with an unrelated etymology, in which sense it is rare but not offensive.)

Cognates in other languages

Many cognates in other languages, such as French sodomie (verb sodomiser), Spanish sodomía (verb sodomizar), and Portuguese sodomia (verb sodomizar), are used exclusively for penetrative anal sex, at least since the early 19th century. In those languages, the term is also often current vernacular (not just legal, unlike in other cultures) and a formal way of referring to any practice of anal penetration; the word sex is commonly associated with consent and pleasure with regard to all involved parties and often avoids directly mentioning two common aspects of social taboo – human sexuality and the anus – without a shunning or archaic connotation to its use.

In modern

While religion and the law have had a fundamental role in the historical definition and punishment of sodomy, sodomitical texts present considerable opportunities for ambiguity and interpretation. Sodomy is both a real occurrence and an imagined category. In the course of the eighteenth century, what is identifiable as sodomy often becomes identified with effeminacy, for example, or in opposition to a discourse of manliness.

In this regard, Ian McCormick has argued that

an adequate and imaginative reading involves a series of intertextual interventions in which histories become stories, fabrications and reconstructions in lively debate with, and around, 'dominant' heterosexualities ... Deconstructing what we think we see may well involve reconstructing ourselves in surprising and unanticipated ways.^[17]

Buggery

The modern English word "

The first use of the word "buggery" appears in Middle English in 1330 where it is associated with "abominable heresy"; though the sexual sense of "bugger" is not recorded until 1555.^[18] The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology quotes a similar form: "bowgard" (and "bouguer"), but claims that the Bulgarians were heretics "as belonging to the Greek Church, sp. Albigensian". Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives the only meaning of the word "bugger" as a sodomite "from the adherence of the Bulgarians to the Eastern Church considered heretical".^[19]

Bugger is still commonly used in modern British English as an exclamation, while "buggery" is synonymous with the act of sodomy.^[20]

History

Hebrew Bible

In the Hebrew Bible, Sodom was a city destroyed by God because of the evil of its inhabitants.^[5] No specific sin is given as the reason for God's great wrath.^[5] The story of Sodom's destruction – and of Abraham's failed attempt to intercede with God and prevent that destruction – appears in Genesis 18–19. The connection between Sodom and homosexuality is derived from the described attempt by a mob of the city's people to rape Lot's male guests.^[5] Some suggest the sinfulness for which Sodom was destroyed might have consisted mainly in the violation of obligations of hospitality, which were important for the original writers of the Biblical account.^[21] In Judges 19–21, there is an account, similar in many ways, where Gibeah, a city of the Benjamin tribe, is destroyed by the other tribes of Israel in revenge for a mob of its inhabitants raping and killing a woman.

Many times in the

Specific sins which Sodom is linked to by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible are adultery and lying (Jeremiah 23:14).

In Ezekiel 16, a long comparison is made between Sodom and the kingdom of Judah. "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they." (v. 47, NASB) "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. (vss. 49–50, NASB) (The Hebrew for the word "thus" is the conjunction "ו" which is usually translated "and", therefore KJV, NIV, and CEV omit the word entirely.)

There is no explicit mention of any sexual sin in Ezekiel's summation and "abomination" is used to describe many sins.^[5]

The

The Book of Wisdom, which is included in the Biblical canon by Orthodox and Catholics, makes reference to the story of Sodom, further emphasizing that their sin had been failing to practice hospitality:

And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behavior toward strangers.

For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them. (

KJV)^[24]

The New Testament, like the Old Testament, references Sodom as a place of God's anger against sin, but the Epistle of Jude provides a certain class of sin as causative of its destruction, the meaning of which is disputed.

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

— Jude 1:5

KJV
Compare Jude 1:7 in multiple versions

The Epistle of Jude in the New Testament echoes the Genesis narrative and potentially adds the sexually immoral aspects of Sodom's sins: "just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire" (v. 7, English Standard Version). The phrase rendered "sexual immorality and unnatural desire" is translated "strange flesh" or "false flesh", but it is not entirely clear what it refers to.

One theory is that it is just a reference to the "strange flesh" of the intended rape victims, who were angels, not men.^[26] Countering this is traditional interpretation, which notes that the angels were sent to investigate an ongoing regional problem (Gn. 18) of fornication, and extraordinarily so, that of a homosexual nature,^[27][28] "out of the order of nature".^[29] "Strange" is understood to mean "outside the moral law",^[30] (Romans 7:3; Galatians 1:6) while it is doubted that either Lot or the men of Sodom understood that the strangers were angels at the time.^[31]

Josephus

The Jewish historian Josephus used the term "Sodomites" in summarizing the Genesis narrative: "About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, in so much that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices" "Now when the Sodomites saw the young men to be of beautiful countenances, and this to an extraordinary degree, and that they took up their lodgings with Lot, they resolved themselves to enjoy these beautiful boys by force and violence; and when Lot exhorted them to sobriety, and not to offer any thing immodest to the strangers, but to have regard to their lodging in his house; and promised that if their inclinations could not be governed, he would expose his daughters to their lust, instead of these strangers; neither thus were they made ashamed." (Antiquities 1.11.1,3^[32] – c. 96CE). His assessment goes beyond the Biblical data, though it is seen by conservatives as defining what manner of fornication (Jude 1:7) Sodom was given to.^{[citation needed]}

Medieval Christendom

Dante and Virgil interview the sodomites, from Guido da Pisa [it ]'s commentary on the Commedia, c. 1345 Homosexual intercourse between males was possibly denounced in pre-6th century Jewish and Christian writings, such as the Extreme weather events of 535–536). While adhering to the death penalty by beheading as punishment for homosexuality or adultery, Justinian's legal novels heralded a change in Roman legal paradigm in that he introduced a concept of not only secular but also divine punishment for homosexual behavior.[citation needed ] Justinian's usage of the term was taken up around 850 CE by the capitularies , fabricated under the pseudonym Benedictus Levita, referred to sodomy: XXI. De diversis malorum flagitiis. ("No. 21: On manifold disgraceful wrongs") CXLIII. De sceleribus nefandis ob quae regna percussa sunt, ut penitus caveantur. ("No. 143: On sinful vices due to which empires have crumbled, so that we shall do our best to beware of them") CLX. De patratoribus diversorum malorum. ("No. 160: On the perpetrators of manifold evil deeds") Benedictus Levita broadened the meaning for sodomy to all sexual acts not related to procreation that were therefore deemed counter nature (so for instance, even solitary masturbation and anal intercourse between a male and a female were covered), while among these, he still emphasized all interpersonal acts not taking place between human men and women, especially homosexuality.[citation needed ] Benedictus Levita prescribed capital punishment for sodomy. Burning had been part of the standard penalty for homosexual behavior, particularly common in Germanic protohistory (as according to Germanic folklore, sexual deviance and especially same-sex desire were caused by a form of malevolence or spiritual evil called nith, rendering those people characterized by it as non-human fiends, as nithings).[citation needed] Benedictus Levita's rationale was that the punishment of such acts was in order to protect all Christendom from divine punishments, such as natural disasters for carnal sins committed by individuals, but also for heresy, superstition, and paganism. Because his crucial demands for capital punishment had been so unheard of in ecclesiastical history previously, based upon the humane Christian concept of forgiveness and mercy, it took several centuries before Benedictus Levita's demands for legal reform began to take tangible shape within larger ecclesiastical initiatives. During the Trial of the Knights Templar. Some of these charges were specifically directed at the Grand Master of the order, Jacques de Molay.[44] The Adamites were a libertine sect also accused of sodomy.[45] The early-modern witch hunts were also largely connoted with sodomy.[46] Persecution of Cathars and the Bogomiles in Bulgaria led to the use of a term closely related to sodomy: buggery derives from French bouggerie, meaning "of Bulgaria".[47] The association of sodomy with hereticism, satanism, and witchcraft was supported by the Inquisition trials.[48] Sodomy laws in 18th-century Europe This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) An examination of trials for rape and sodomy during the 18th century at the Old Bailey in London shows that the treatment of rape was often lenient, while the treatment of sodomy was often severe. However, the difficulty of proving that penetration and ejaculation had occurred meant that men were often convicted of the lesser charge of "assault with sodomitical intent", which was not a capital offence.[49] Sodomy crimes in England could mean "sexually assaulting a young child", and could result in a sentence of death recorded, i.e., not an actual death sentence at all.[50] In 18th century France, sodomy was still theoretically a capital crime, and there are a handful of cases where sodomites were executed. However, in several of these, other crimes were involved as well. Records from the Bastille and the police lieutenant d'Argenson, as well as other sources, show that many who were arrested were exiled, sent to a regiment, or imprisoned in places (generally the hospital) associated with moral crimes (such as prostitution). Of these, a number were involved in prostitution or had approached children, or otherwise gone beyond merely having homosexual relations. Ravaisson (a 19th-century writer who edited the Bastille records) suggested that the authorities preferred to handle these cases discreetly, lest public punishments in effect publicize "this vice".[citation needed] Periodicals of the time sometimes casually named known sodomites, and at one point, even suggested that sodomy was increasingly popular. This does not imply that sodomites necessarily lived in security – specific police agents, for instance, watched the Tuileries, even then a known "cruising area". But, as with much sexual behaviour under the Old Regime, discretion was a key concern on all sides (especially since members of prominent families were sometimes implicated); the law seemed most concerned with those who were the least discreet.[citation needed ] In 1730, there was a wave of sodomy trials in the Netherlands; some 250 men were summoned before the authorities; 91 faced decrees of exile for not appearing. At least 60 men were sentenced to death.[51] The last two Englishmen that were hanged for sodomy were executed in 1835. Buggery Act . Modern sodomy laws Main article: Sodomy law Laws criminalizing sodomy rarely spell out precise sexual acts, but are typically understood by courts to include any sexual act deemed to be unnatural or immoral. homosexuals.[58] As of February 2024, 66 countries as well as three sub-national jurisdictions[a] have laws criminalizing homosexuality.[59] In 2006 that number was 92. Among these 66 countries, 44 of them criminalize not only male homosexuality but also female homosexuality. In 11 of them, homosexuality is punished with the death penalty.[59] Abrahamic religions early Islam[72][73][74][75] is debated. Judaism Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. — Ezekiel 16:49–50 (KJV) Classical Jewish texts are seen by many as not stressing the homosexual aspect of the attitude of the inhabitants of Sodom as much as their cruelty and lack of Genesis 19 (KJV): And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. — Genesis 19:4–7 (KJV) The verb "know" is understood to be a euphemism for sex (see discussion in the section below), which some translations (e.g. the New International Version) make more explicit. Christianity The traditional interpretation sees the primary sin of Sodom as being homosexual intercourse,[78][79] connecting the Sodom narrative with Leviticus 18, which lists various sexual crimes, which, according to verses 27 and 28, would result in the land being "defiled": for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled; otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. Some scholars, such as Per-Axel Sverker, align this passage with the traditional interpretation, claiming that the word "abomination" refers to sexual misconduct, and that while homosexual acts were not the only reason Sodom and Gomorrah were condemned, it was a significant part of the picture. Others, the earliest of whom was Derrick Sherwin Bailey, claim that this passage contradicts the traditional interpretation altogether. In their view, the sins of Sodom were related more to violation of hospitality laws than sexual sins.[80] This also coincides with traditional Jewish interpretations of these texts.[81] The primary word in contention is the Hebrew word yâda, used for know in the Hebrew Bible. Biblical scholars disagree on what "know" in this instance refers to, but most of conservative Christianity interprets it to mean "sexual intercourse",[82][83] while the opposing position interprets it to mean "interrogate".[84] Lot's offering of his two virgins has been interpreted to mean that Lot is offering a compromise to assure the crowd that the two men have no untoward intentions in town, or that he is offering his virgins as a substitute for the men to "know" by sexual intercourse. Those who oppose the interpretation of sexual intent toward Lot's guests point out that there are over 930 occurrences of the Hebrew word (yâda‛) for "know" in the Hebrew Bible, and its use to denote sexual intercourse only occurs about a dozen times, and in the Septuagint it is not rendered sexually. Countering this is the argument that most of the uses of yâda‛ denoting sex is in Genesis[85] (including once for premarital sex: Genesis 38:26), and in verse 8, sex is the obvious meaning. Its use in the parallel story in Judges 19 is also invoked in support of this meaning,[86][87] with it otherwise providing the only instance of "knowing" someone by violence. Thomas Aquinas gave a definition of the word "sodomy" in his Summa Theologica. He wrote:[88] by copulation with an undue sex, male with male, or female with female, as the Apostle states (Romans 1:27): and this is called the "vice of sodomy". Islam While the Quran clearly disapproves of the sexual practices of the "people of Lot" ("What, of all creatures do ye come unto the males, and leave the wives your Lord created for you?"[89]), only one passage has occasionally been interpreted as taking a particular legal position towards such activities:[90] And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them (15). And as for the two who are guilty of indecency from among you, give them both a punishment; then if they repent and amend, turn aside from them; surely Allah is oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful. (16)[4:15–16 (Translated by Shakir)] Most exegetes hold that these verses refer to illicit heterosexual relationships, although a minority view attributed to the Mu'tazilite scholar, Abu Muslim al-Isfahani, interpreted them as referring to homosexual relations. This view was widely rejected by medieval scholars, but has found some acceptance in modern times.[91] Shariah (Islamic law) defines sodomy outside marriage as adultery or fornication or both, and it thus attracts the same penalties as those crimes (flogging or death), although the exact punishment varies with schools and scholars.[93] In practice, few modern Muslim countries have legal systems based fully on Shariah, and an increasing number of Muslims do not look to shariah but to the Quran itself for moral guidance.[93] For sodomy within marriage, the majority of Shiite interpreters hold that: (1) anal intercourse, while strongly disliked, is not haram (forbidden) provided the wife agrees; and (2) if the wife does not agree, then it is preferable to refrain.[94] Despite the formal disapproval of religious authority, gender segregation in Muslim societies and the strong emphasis on virility leads some adolescents and unmarried young men to seek alternative sexual outlets to women, especially with males younger than themselves.[95] Not all sodomy is homosexual – for some young men, heterosexual sodomy is considered better than vaginal penetration, and female prostitutes report demand for anal penetration from their male clients.[96] See also Ayoni The Bible and homosexuality Female sodomy Homosexuality and Christianity Prison rape Religion and sexuality Explanatory notes which?] (Palestine) and Chechnya (Russia).[citation needed ] References Citations ^ ISBN 978-1-4411-2160-8 . ISBN 0-7876-5073-0 . Retrieved January 13, 2014. ISBN 978-1-285-54613-1 . Retrieved January 13, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59884-307-1 . Retrieved January 13, 2014. ^ S2CID 143758576 . ISBN 978-0-310-49235-1 . Retrieved September 21, 2013. ISBN 0-8139-2543-6 . Retrieved September 21, 2013. ^ ISBN 978-0-470-99895-3 . Retrieved September 21, 2013. ^ Sullivan, Andrew (March 24, 2003). "Unnatural Law". The New Republic. Archived from the original on July 2, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2009. Since the laws had rarely been enforced against heterosexuals, there was no sense of urgency about their repeal. (Or Sullivan, Andrew (2003-03-24). "Unnatural Law". The New Republic. Vol. 228, no. 11.) ^ "Sodomy". myetymology.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) ^ "sodomy laws". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. ^ "Lawrence v. Texas in which The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that sodomy laws are unconstitutional on June 26, 2003". cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ "sod". Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary. Main Entry. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. [3, noun]. Etymology: short for sodomite. Date: 1818. ISBN 978-0-19-861022-9. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2005. Origin: abbreviation of sodomite ^ See Paragraph 175 StGB, version of June 28, 1935. ^ "Sodomi". Ordbog over det danske Sprog. ^ McCormick, Ian. Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 9, 11. ^ "buggery". Oxford English Dictionary. ^ Bogomilism Study. Archived from the original on 2015-08-10. ^ "buggery, n.". Oxford English Dictionary Online. December 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2022. in legal contexts now typically refers to rape involving anal penetration (especially of minors). Sodomy is the more usual term in U.S. use. ^ Boswell, pp. 92–98 ISBN 978-0-8308-1559-3 ISBN 978-0-8028-4075-2 ^ "Wisdom 19:13–14". KJV. ^ The works of Philo a contemporary of Josephius Archived 2016-01-19 at the Wayback Machine p. 528 ^ Boswell, p. 97 ^ Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible ^ Vincent's Word Studies ^ Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments ^ Word pictures in the New Testament, Archibald Thomas Robertson ^ Gill, Gn. 19 ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2009-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "CHURCH FATHERS: Homily 4 on Romans (Chrysostom)". ^ Commentary on the sin of Sodom ^ Josephus, Antiquities, 1.11.1 ^ 33–34; ET Jonge 422–23 ^ Esler, Philip F. (Spring 2004). "The Sodom tradition in Romans". Biblical Theology Bulletin. ^ Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. Commenting on the story of Sodom from Genesis 19 ^ "The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First". www.ccel.org. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. ANF08.iii.xiv. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ "The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First". www.ccel.org. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. ANF08.iii.x. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Slavonic Apocalypse of). 10:4; in J recension Ch. I.118. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. ^ trans. in Derrick Sherwin Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition, (London: Longmans, Green, 1955), 73-74 ^ Justinian I: Novel 77 (538) and Novel 141 (544 CE) Archived 2019-03-31 at the Wayback Machine (Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks Project) ^ Legman, G. (1966). The Guilt of the Templars. New York: Basic Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-5381-5295-9 . Retrieved 2023-06-27. ^ W.A.P. (1911). "Templars" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ^ Oxford English Dictionary ^ See The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010), p. 809 ^ Crimes tried at the Old Bailey Archived 2017-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Proceedings of the Old Bailey online ^ Zipporah Osei (24 May 2019). "An Author Learned of a Mortifying Research Mistake Live on the Radio. Here's How Twitter Reacted". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 24 May 2019. a death sentence was being recorded, not carried out, so a prisoner could instead have been pardoned and freed ... the case of Thomas Silver, a 14-year-old she believed was sentenced to death for a homosexual act. Wolf said in the interview that she found several dozen similar 'executions'. A newspaper report from the time, which Sweet presented to Wolf during the interview, shows that Silver was actually shown mercy because of his age ... the 14-year-old was in fact convicted of sexually assaulting a young child. ^ Rictor Norton, "The Dutch Purge of Homosexuals 1730". Archived 2012-05-18 at the Wayback Machine ^ "A history of London's Newgate prison". www.capitalpunishmentuk.org. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ Hunter, Madeline. "Madeline Hunter –History". madelinehunter.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2018. ISBN 0-582-48334-4 . ISBN 0-7876-5073-0 . Retrieved 13 January 2014. ISBN 978-1-285-54613-1 . Retrieved 13 January 2014. ISBN 978-1-59884-307-1 . Retrieved 13 January 2014. ^ Sullivan, Andrew (24 March 2003). "Unnatural Law". The New Republic. Vol. 228, no. 11. Retrieved 27 November 2009. Since the laws had rarely been enforced against heterosexuals, there was no sense of urgency about their repeal. ^ a b Mendos, Lucas Ramón (March 2019). "State-sponsored Homophobia" (PDF) (13th ed.). Geneva, Switzerland: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2021. Jewish, etc.), religiously affiliated individuals tend to report more negative attitudes against a variety of social outgroups than individuals who are not religiously affiliated. ... In addition, most Abrahamic religions (e.g., Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) contain dogmas in which their respective deity create mankind with individuals who are perfectly entrenched in the gender binary (e.g., Adam and Eve ), and thus religions might be instilling cisgender normativity into individuals who ascribe to their doctrines. women are less in control of their sex drives and are therefore essentially lustful, with a constant craving for sex. This belief leads to the rape myth – even when women resist sexual advances they are using it merely as a seductive device. On the other hand, patriarchal beliefs also dictate that women, in contrast to men, are naturally submissive and have little interest in sex, so men have a 'natural' right to sexual intercourse whether women want it or not. ^ S2CID 146505567 . ^ S2CID 38974409 . S2CID 170127256 . ^ Gilbert, Kathleen (September 29, 2008). "Bishop Soto tells NACDLGM: 'Homosexuality is Sinful'". Catholic Online. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008. ^ Robinson, Gene; Krehely, Jeff; Steenland, Sally (December 8, 2010). "What are Religious Texts Really Saying about Gay and Transgender Rights?". Center for American Progress. Retrieved March 30, 2021. ^ Modisane, Cameron (November 15, 2014). "The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah was NOT About Homosexuality". News24. Retrieved March 30, 2021. S2CID 165559811 . S2CID 152944605 . ^ Frost, Natasha (2018-03-02). "A Modern Controversy Over Ancient Homosexuality". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2021-04-24. ^ McClain, Lisa. "A thousand years ago, the Catholic Church paid little attention to homosexuality". The Conversation. Retrieved 2021-04-24. S2CID 224909490 . S2CID 170880292 . S2CID 141668547 . S2CID 163738149. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2021. ^ "A History of Homophobia: 2 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah". rictornorton.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ "Tzedakah Activists Vs. Sodomites". www.shemayisrael.co.il. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice, pp. 73–74 ^ Gagnon, Why the Disagreement over the Biblical Witness on Homosexual Practice, pp. 46–50 Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine ^ Derrick Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition (Hamden: Connecticut: Archon, 1975 reprint from 1955), 4–5 ^ "The Destruction of Sodom". Chabad.org. Chabad (Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement). Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015. ^ Greg Bahnsen, Homosexuality: A Biblical View (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1978), p. 32. ^ A Reformed Response to Daniel Helminiak's Gay Theology, by Derrick K. Olliff and Dewey H. Hodges ^ John J. McNeil, The Church and the Homosexual, p. 50 ^ Homosexuality and the Old Testament, P. Michael Ukleja ^ Dave Miller, Sodom: Inhospitality or Homosexuality?, Apologetics Press ^ James B. DeYoung, Homosexuality, pp. 118–122 ^ Summa Theologica, II–II, Question 164, Article 11 – via newadvent.org. Archived 2020-09-28 at the Wayback Machine ^ Sura 26:165–167, quoted in Wafer, p. 88 ISBN 978-0-8147-7468-7 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. ^ Rowson, Everett K. (2006). "Homosexuality". In McAuliffe, Jane Dammen (ed.). Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān. Vol. 2. Brill. pp. 444–445. ^ Wafer, p. 89 ^ a b Jivraj & de Jong, p. 2 ^ "Chapter Three: The Islamic Sexual Morality (2) Its Structure". Al-Islam.org. 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2018. ^ Schmitt & Sofer, p. 36 ^ Dialmy, pp. 32, 35, footnote 34 General and cited references Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (University Of Chicago Press; 8th Edition. edition, 2005). Crompton, Louis, Homosexuality and Civilization (Belknap Press, 2003) Dialmy, Abdessamad (2010). Which Sex Education for Young Muslims?. World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists. Davenport-Hines, Richard, Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes to sex and sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance (William Collins and Sons Ltd, 1990) Hays, Richard B. (2004), The Moral Vision of the New Testament (London: Continuum). pg. 381 Goldberg, Jonathan, Reclaiming Sodom (London and New York: Routledge, 1994) Jahangir, Junaid bin (2010). "Implied Cases for Muslim Same-Sex Unions". In Samar Habib (ed.). Islam and homosexuality, Volume 2. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-37905-5 . Jordan, Mark D., The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Harvard University Press, 1990). Maccubbin, Robert Purks (ed.), 'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality During the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1988) McCormick, Ian (ed.). Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing. (London and New York: Routledge) Schmitt, Arno; Sofer, Jehoeda (1992). Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Muslim Societies. Haworth Press. ISBN 978-1-56024-047-1 . Schmitt, Arno (2001–2002). Liwat im Fiqh: Männliche Homosexualität?, Volume IV. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Archived from the original on 2011-09-06. Van Jivraj, Suhraiya; de Jong, Anisa (2001). Muslim Moral Instruction on Homosexuality. Yoesuf Foundation Conference on Islam in the West and Homosexuality – Strategies for Action. Wafer, Jim (1997). "Mohammad and Male Homosexuality". In Stephen O. Murray; Will Roscoe (eds.). Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-7468-7 . External links Look up sodomy or buggery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sodomy by Prof. Eugene F. Rice Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sodomy&oldid=1217695324"