22. What is your position on a Constitutional ban on homosexual marriage, and why? America is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles, which by definition are based on the Bible. Are there explicit Bible verses on homosexuality? There absolutely are explicit Bible verses on homosexuality. Consider these Old Testament verses on homosexuality: "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination." (Leviticus 20:13). "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion. ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you." (Leviticus 18:22-24). Notice that the latter verses - Leviticus 18:22-24 - lump in homosexuality with bestiality. There are also New Testament verses on homosexuality, including, "For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due." (Romans 1:26-27). That homosexuality is increasingly accepted by the society doesn't change the Bible's clear interdiction of it. A nation built on Judeo-Christian principles should stand against homosexuality and homosexual marriage. (If you are struggling with homosexuality, this site offers help.)
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