In 2009 the New Delhi High Court struck down the country's sodomy law. The sodomy law was a colonial inheritance from the British. And with it, the New Delhi High Court issued a verdict so stunningly beautiful in its affirmation of humanity and human rights that it became a model
And the fourth and final point that I would say is a don't is don't think that cutting all foreign assistance to countries with sodomy laws or countries that have a track record of punishing and targeting LGBT people is a good thing. If LGBTI people become the reason that foreign aid is cut to a country, there will be retaliation against the same people
sat me down, opened his Bible to Genesis, Chapter 19, and read to me this story where God sends two angels, in the form of men, into the city of Sodom . The men of Sodom attempt or threaten to rape the angels. And God then destroys the city with fire and brimstone.
We want it to be a backstory. They were considered sodomites and all these crazy things.
perpetrators do is they they give the victim speech and he says you know 19 years ago I was I had a boundary violation boundary violation meaning sodomy with a minor and it only happened one time but because of the zero-tolerance policy I got to step down so I'm a father of four so I'm sitting
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. And then the 20 other references to Sodom and Gomorrah in the rest of the Bible do not refer to same-sex behavior
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. as part of the sin of Sodom , but are quite explicit that the sin of Sodom has to do with arrogance and apathy
decision, studied around the world. The court found that the sodomy law was in violation of the Indian constitution, specifically the guarantees of equality before the law, prohibition from discrimination, and the protection of life and personal liberty.
Bill's got a book called "Killing Kennedy." And I admire his obsession with terrible things happening to presidents. He's got "Killing Lincoln," "Killing Kennedy," "Sodomizing Coolidge"-- that's a kids' book. He was on John Stewart's show.
of the conversation anymore. But it's remarkable how many Christians still associate Sodom and Gomorrah with gayness. So, when I asked my dad in high school why we were against gay rights-- because I knew that we were, but I wasn't really sure why-- he just
And in December 2013, the Supreme Court of India struck down the ruling. And with its decision, sodomy was again criminalized in India. Because of the influence of the decision of the New Delhi High Court, everyone was watching and waiting for years for this decision.
par des hommes qui en avaient ras le bol de devoir toujours jouer le rôle de l'homme viril, et qui assumaient une forme de... Est mentionné dans le film, par exemple, le fait de la sexualité passive, la sodomie,qui était quelque chose qui semblait inadmissible à l'époque et inimaginable. Il y a eu convergence et lutte commune mais très souvent, ça a plutôt mal tourné
against nature. This is even just same sex. It can even be queer sex, or sodomy between heterosexual couples. But what you saw there, that's also the same law that is-- there's a huge civil rights movement right now in India right now to repeal that.
And we go from Russia to India, hopefully with love. In 2009 the New Delhi High Court struck down the country's sodomy law. The sodomy law was a colonial inheritance from the British.
Bill's got a book out called "Killing Kennedy." And I admire his obsession with terrible things happening to presidents. He's got "Killing Lincoln," "Killing Kennedy," "Sodomizing Coolidge." That's a kids' book. And he was on Jon Stewart's show.
So think about it if you have any. Yeah. So one text is this famous text from the "Old Testament" about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is no longer really at the forefront of the conversation anymore.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. And then also-- and as I go into much more depth in the book about the history of interpretation of the Sodom
country a lot of unflattering things about Moab said before the exile Zephaniah the aforementioned monologist prophet says I've heard the taunts of a Moab and therefore Moab shall become like like Sodom he probably has God saying that actually but post-exilic you have this whole book of Ruth devoted to bringing the Moabites into the family
He was the first of the men that I talked to in prison. He was serving a 16-year sentence for a crime that involved kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault, car theft, and sodomy. He'd committed the crime with his older brother, Bobby Bogle.
And they called out these tools used by Americans. And they said, actually, not only is this most recent version of foreign import, but the original sodomy law is also a British colonial legacy. And what is Ugandan is tolerance and community and compassion.
was exuberantly applied. Samuel Johnson writes of a girl 7 years old who was hanged for stealing a petticoat. By 1861 the number of capital crimes had been reduced to 4. Likewise, in the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries, the death penalty was prescribed and used for thefts, sodomy, bestiality, adultery, witchcraft, concealing birth, slave revolt, counterfeiting. Here we have a graph that extends from 1650 to the year 2000 showing the percentage of American executions for crimes other than murder. In the colonial
So, when I asked my dad in high school why we were against gay rights-- because I knew that we were, but I wasn't really sure why-- he just sat me down, opened his Bible to Genesis, Chapter 19, and read to me this story where God sends two angels, in the form of men, into the city of Sodom . The men of Sodom attempt or threaten to rape the angels.