Endnote 1 – The Biblical Circle of Homosexual Prohibition

The story in Genesis 19 (from which our word “sodomy” is derived) and the similar gruesome story in Judges 19 do not apply since they deal not with consensual homosexuality but with the violation, of the ancient law of hospitality and the gang rape, intended or actual, of two “men” in one case, and of a woman in the other.