This topic is a rather contentious issue, and it doesn’t
appear that it will cease to be the case anytime soon. The following are the
best works in recent years addressing the topic of the Bible’s attitudes
towards homosexuality, using careful exegetical and scholarly research. They
are also void of any ill-will towards those with same-sex attraction. However,
they come firmly down on the side that yes, the Bible condemns homosexual behaviour
in spite of revisionist attempts.
Robert A.J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
Michael L. Brown, Can
you be Gay and Christian? Responding with Love and Truth to Questions about
Homosexuality
Idem. A Queer
Thing Happened to America
The best “revisionist” attempt, of course, would be John
Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance,
and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the
Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.
