Sentences with phrase «word sodomy»

And the original definition of the word sodomy was any se.xual act that wasn't for procreation.

We get the word sodomy from anal $ ex and that is why the town was named that in the old text.

The word sodomy comes from Sodom.

Again, the word Sodomy in the bible refers to the city.

And, it can be pointed out that technically, in the modern vernacular, the word sodomy can mean any se.xual act that is not directly penile penetration of the va.gina... many of these acts are regularly used by hetero folks, including anal penetration, the use of toys for penetration, etc..

Not exact matches

Yes, we may invoke Leviticus, Peter, Corinthians, Jesus» words in Matthew, and others to point to the sinfulness of sodomy, but the new covenant removes the penalty of death by the hands of men for this sin.

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

Kennedy's judgment was a far cry from the words of the great legal scholar William Blackstone, who referred to sodomy in his magisterial Commentaries (1769) as «an offence so dark in nature, the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature, a crime not fit to be named.»

In his account of the faith, the sin that Christians once called sodomy is no more serious than my nodding off as he spoke gentle words at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on a warm June afternoon.

Because the bill specifies «with mankind,» a number of LGBT outlets have pointed out that any act of anal or oral sex could be interpreted as illegal as the wording essentially equates sodomy and bestiality.

You might want to look up the word «sodomy» and «sodomite», while you're at it.)