Sodomy Law and Religion Influences

A sodomy law is a law makes in 1533 by adopting contemporary church doctrine and follows by mostly the western people during the England withdrawal from the Catholic Church, which makes certain sexual acts into sex crimes. The term sodomy has in the past been used to refer to any deviant sexual act, often deemed so because such does not lead to procreation; for those who found violated from the sodomy law may caused themselves a death penalty.

This sodomy law has a close relation with the second factor of barrier for people to accept lesbians or homosexuals in human community of which is the forbidden of god under Christianity and Judaism. Sodomy is a word derives from the name of the ancient city of Sodom, which was a city destroyed by God for its sins that can be found in the common interpretation of the Bible. It is known among the Christian and Judaism that God strictly hate fags or God strictly forbid homosexuality.

This is because according to the book of Genesis chapter 18 verse 20 until chapter 19 verse 29in the Old Testament of the NIV Bible has clearly noted about the story God destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah; and do not have sexual relation with a man as you have with a woman, that's detestable is stated in Leviticus chapter 18 verse 22 to discourage people having the homosexual relation.

In addition according to the New Testament from NIV Bible, under the book of Roman 1:26-27 mention that therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator who is forever praised. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for natural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

An even more clear view about God hates homosexual relationship is noted as do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral not idolaters not adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.(1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 9-10 from the New Testament of the NIV Bible)

Lastly in the book of Jude it mention again regarding to the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, as in verse 7 it state that in a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude verse 7 from the New Testament of the NIV Bible).

On the other hand, both Taoism and Buddhism do not forbid exclusive homosexuality. Taois is usually stressed upon the relationship between yin and yang of which are the two opposing forces which maintain harmony through balance. Yin is about all things that are feminine and yang is all things that are masculine. Therefore heterosexuality is a physical and emotional embodiment of the harmonious balance between yin and yang whereas homosexuality is seen as the union of two yins or two yangs meaning that equal to nothing to lost or gained especially women were said to have an unlimited yin essence under Taoism teaching. So female homosexuality was widespread under Taoism teaching during the Chou Dynast, but male homosexuality was rare. In fact male homosexuality was forbidden because it was considered a complete loss of yang essence on the part of both men.

Buddhists have a different view on sexuality as they believe that sexual activity whether heterosexual or homosexual is a manifestation of human greed. Furthermore Buddhism has no scriptural basis upon which homosexuality is to be condemned. According to Theravada Buddhist teaching stated that all relationships including gay, lesbian and straight, are often considered personal matters of mutual consent. As long as the relationship promotes the happiness and well-being of both parties, then it should be positive and acceptable. So many Buddhists believe that sexual orientation is beyond a person's control, as are race and gender and they feel that gays and lesbians should have the same civil rights and benefits as do all other persons.

Similarly, Hindu society and Hinduism were previously much more open to variations in human sexuality than they are at present, it is proven through the ancient Hindu temples and artifacts that are openly depicted both gays and lesbianism within their carvings. Furthermore in Hinduism many divinities are androgynous and the Hindu deities who are hermaphrodite of which the divinities manifest in all three genders by switching from male to female or from female to male.

So by the way of the linkage between Confucianism with Taoism and Buddhism, homosexuality is supposed to be acceptable within the Confucianism. It is supposed to say so because according to Confucian thought if a person loving and sexual relations between individual no matter heterosexual or same sex will be traditionally accepted as long as their behaviors and actions do not impede one's fulfilling one's obligations to the family and the state.

This is because these three types of religion believe in reincarnation after death. They believe that if a man may perform homosexual intercourse with another living male, will be causing byhis past life. In order for him to "complete" the heterosexual relationship of the past life, they could then conduct acts that are homosexual because of his male form in this life. They also believed that a female may be reincarnated as a male if she did some good deeds especially those deeds that were related to chastity during her past life. Thenthe altar God for her to being reincarnated into a male form in her next life. (Taoist Holy Books -Zhuang Zi). However homosexuality was discouraged in Confucianism because it would prevent a son from carrying out his Confucian religious duty to reproduce. the former was his female lover in she may be "rewarded" by

Like its sister religions Judaism and Christianity, Islam is inherently homophobic, Islam even refer homosexuality as kind of deadly disease. According to Dr Muzammil Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America established that homosexuality is a moral disorder. It is a moral disease, a sin and corruption. Besides, Jamaat-e-Islami from Pakistan has said that homosexuality is unlawful in Islam and it is neither accepted by the state nor by the Islamic Society. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at from Canada also agreed that homosexuality is utterly contrary to every natural law of human and animal life.

Similarly to the Bible, the Qu’ran has clearly mentioned that homosexuality is condemnatory through a few chapters and verses in the Qu’ran. For example a possible reference to lesbians who are to be confined for life can be found in Qu’ran chapter 4 verses 16 of which stated “If two men among you commit indecency, punish them both” as well as “You lust after men instead of women. Truly, you are a degenerate people” that can be see through Qu’ran chapter 7 verses 80 to verse 81. Lastly the Qu’ran mentioned again about homosexuality is condemnatory through “Do you commit indecency with your eyes open, lustfully seeking men instead of women? Surely you are an ignorant people.” (Qu’ran chapter 27 verse 54 to verse 58– 27:54-58.)

Although the Qur’an is ambiguous about the exact punishment, the death penalty may be inferred as those guilty of homosexuality in the last two references above were destroyed by rain (Qu’ran chapter26 verse165 to verse168). The Hadith show a more explicit way regarding to what should be done by given a few examples; such as according to Tirmidhi state that kills the one who sodomises and the one who lets it be done to him.” And Tabarani after consider that death is the penalty for adultery; he said that “Lesbianism by women is adultery between them.” Lastly Sunan Abu Dawud, 38:4448 emphasized that “If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.”

There are some Islamic countries that will tolerated indeed of times and places such as if they done it privately. However, if the religion has been seriously taken in the authorities and laws enforced country, then results for sexual minorities will be dire. For example, in April 2001, nine gay men were given prison terms of 4 to 5 years with 2400 to 2600 lashes in Saudi Arabia. Abdul Sami (18) and Bismillah (22) were killed by the Taliban by having a wall toppled on them in 1998.

In addition to Islamic promiscuity is very wrong practice that should not be performed by Muslim. One of the reason promiscuity is wrong because AIDS is easily spread through promiscuity and to the Muslims’ knowledge many of the homosexuals are usually promiscuous and very few of the homosexuals practice monogamous. Islamic also take concern of the issue that promiscuity spread disease, will lead us to the last but not the least factor of barrier for the lesbian acceptance within the heterosexual community.

To summarize, homosexuality is viewed as unnaturalness on the religious, ethical and moral stance. Acts of homosexuals are viewed very negatively because of their differences with the heterosexuals. Certain degree of misunderstandings towards homosexuals may be contained if the heterosexual perspective and moral stance are always project on them without deep exploration. Lack of proper education on homosexuality is a key factor contributing to such misunderstandings. To be more objective, people cannot conclude that homosexual behavior is immoral in a civil society. It is because we cannot impose the biblical principals or the Qu’ran principals on everyone and in fact not all people have such religious faiths as well as not all people practice Christianity nor Islamic.

HoW mUCh yoU KnOw About GAY?

It’s a said that if there are people there will be problem, people who acknowledge them as civilized try hard to seek and perform justice and fairness. However even under Law and legal there always existing of unfairness and unequal situation. There’s always complains regarding to people affected by labor market discriminations such as national minorities, ethnic, women, and disabled workers, as well as religious and sexual minorities. These people usually will be facing unfavorable labor market outcomes, and these unfavorable outcomes usually can be identified through differential earning wages, promoting opportunities and even through hiring procedures.

The world is undergoing a rapid change of traditional religious to a modern cultural norm values society. Dyke can be said is a new fact that being subjected in interest of questions and debates over in the developed countries such as the United State of America, and England. Especially the heat of the gay right movements are increasing day by days, as they are seeking for acceptance, tolerance and equal opportunities in these societies.

A brief historical, different cultural and different religious, biological, psychological and the view of nature and nurture background of lesbians in the world is to be described as follows. However the issue regarding to the lesbian history should be separated from the gay male history need to be considered. Basically we would want to specify lesbian history from the large overview of queer history but there are some difficulties of doing so especially from the ancient homosexual history because the ancient history is really controversy over male rather than female.

Homosexual is a word literally to translate “same-sex sex” that is taken from the words of Greek and Latin. However the word homosexual today has been referring to a sexual desire, sexual orientation characterized by aesthetic attraction, and romantic love that exclusively only towards members of the same gender identity.

As from a well known historical perspective, of which we known that the word lesbian is derived from an island called Isle of Lesbo. This development is indirectly influenced by poems of Sappho of Mytilene, who was born around the time of 612 B.C and the daughter of Scamandronymus and Cleia in Isle of Lesbos. As Sappho used an ancient Greek dialect called lesbian language that belongs to the Aeolic group to write poetry that was celebrating the love between women.

However the truth is nobody really knows the exactly time, place and the first person to fall in love with the other same-sex person. There is rumor that encounters Alexander the Great is gay because he loved his best friend Hephaestion more than his wife Roxane but the Greeks defend that Alexander the Great isn’t gay. Alexander the Great has passed away so long ago that didn’t left any evident to prove that he is or he is not gay.

Today there are many terms that can be used to interpreted homosexuals. First, there was the term "homosexual," then "gay" and "lesbian," then the once taboo "dyke" and "queer." But now as the expanding for the universe of gender and sexual identities, we got “gender queer” who are those that doesn't fit into the binary male-female system, “trannydyke” are those people that are different gender than the one assigned at birth as well as “boi” that refer to a biological female with a male presentation.

Will My Heart Be the SAME?

昨晚收到表哥的短訊﹐
他謝謝我當日為了他去幫他跟他的女友游說。
那也是半年前的事了﹔
我從來沒告訴過他﹐
我會去幫他更沒想過讓他知道。
我不懂也不清楚他們現在如何了﹔
但能做到的我都已經幫了。
為人的我已經做盡了﹐
但自己呢?
或 許我早已沒有了自己吧﹐
除了工作以外我真的不知道﹐
我還有什麼。 。 。 。
生命仿彿除了工作就是睡覺了。
很多人叫我放生自己﹐
但有誰知我不曾這樣做過呢 ?
我只是不願再受掉入陷阱﹐
或許不會有人會再像我那樣笨﹐
那樣傻的付出真心。
人或許就是虛偽的 。 。 。 。
工作不累是我的內心累﹐
累極了 。 。 。 。 。 。
好想。 。 。 好想 。 。 。 。