gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (06/04/84)
Good Day. There is a gentile at your door with some questions.... My regular perusals of this group have convinced me that you are the ones to approach. I've recently been reading Ron Rizzo's postings in net.religion on a Boswell lecture in Boston on the history of the gay population in the Christian church. A fair amount of Boswell's historical analysis deals with the notion that the early Christian communities were more Hellenic than Judaic in their outlook, and when questioned on the possibility that his evidence reflects the condition of the Christian church in, say, Asia Minor rather than the church in Jerusalem, he replied something to the effect that he was pretty sure that Judaic scholarship would support his contention that Homophobia is a recent invention rather than a part of the structure of the Law. My question is: Is he right? What is the tradition Jewish view of homosexuality? (Orthodox, Reformed, etc.) Thanks in advance: gtaylor