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Freedoms religious and social: an Australian stock-take : Comments
By Andrew Cameron, published 10/5/2019.... social hostilities have a habit of crystallising upward into the policies and laws that order our common life
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If Folau was sincere and didn't cherry-pick items as the uninformed usually do he could have added "heathens and Jews" to his list of the hell-bound but that would have turned it into hate-speech.
In any case the original meaning was not homosexuals but Sodomites. The word Sodomite originally referred to a citizen of the mythical city of Sodom and mean't those who practiced illicit sex (ie sex outside marriage or adulterers).
Centuries later, Puritans hijacked the meaning to refer to those who had any form of non-standard sex not intended soley for the purpose of procreation.
Later still, sex-obsessed religious types changed the definition yet again to refer to something more specific.
Jesus himself never said a word about homosexuals but did say something about judging others.