I wasn't responding to indignance in your response Darrell. It wasn't seen as immoral in all non Jewish cultures. How early are the texts to which you imply discuss homosexuality other than Leviticus? Why did God create people with homosexual "tendencies" and expect them to lead lives unfulfilled by love natural to them? You make a very bad analogy with susceptibility to addiction or sin. We are all susceptible to wrong doing and I have my own battle with OCD. Dealing with these issues is not at all like someone having to deny their natural sexuality.

I find it ironic that you can say to me that I seek to explain it one way but the other explanation is not possible ... isn't it ironic that you can seek to explain it one way but not perceive the other explanation possible?

I wonder what we will talk about next time I find myself sitting beside you during an SBL. :-)