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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Black's ravings (comment about Sodom)
Message-ID: <482@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 18:58:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 18:58:41 1985
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Summary: 

In article <10022@ulysses.UUCP> smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) writes:

>I can't translate the Hebrew on my own, but the Jewish Publication Society
>translation (a fairly new, very scholarly version that's officially accepted
>by Conservative Judaism) renders the passage as:
>
>	Where are the men who came to you tonight?  Bring them out to us,
>	that we may be intimate with them.
>
>Of course, Jewish tradition holds that the sin of Sodom wasn't homosexuality
>but gross lack of hospitality.

Would the behavior of the men of Sodom appear any better
if they had mistaken the angels for females?  Do angels
have gender??

	Mike
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