stephenmcguire, it’s you who are making assumptions about me. I simply replied to your comment. If my reply set you to thinking, good. If it offended you, that wasn’t my intent, and I apologize. As it happens, I KNOW the old testament is not valid – it in fact, is NOT the original old testament! In 600 bc, Babylon overthrew and sacked Israel, and in the process, destroyed all copies of the bible as it existed at that time – the torah, or first five books combined. They were rewritten by the only survivors of the sack qualified to do so – those women of childbearing age who were not killed in the sack. Do you honestly think they had NO motivation to put an anti-homosexuality clause into the holy book? Of course they did! They had, in their minds, to repopulate Israel, after retaking it – and both tasks are best done by men – in fact, the first task required heterosexual men. The sack of Israel, btw, is supported by both archeological and anthropological evidence, and is recorded in the various histories of the nations surrounding both countries.