What the Bible Says About Consentual Same Sex Relationships

This argument continues to say that consentual same sex relationships simply didn't exist back then. Indican price sees some hedging and qualifying tones of my voice there, and we'll get to that in a second. If you read greco roman literature, if you read jewish critiques of the greeks and th romans in terms of their same sex sexual practices, they often describe male same sex relationship as being between people of different power differentials or different social statuses. The biblical text is ancient writers writing from an ancient context to other readers or listeners in that same ancient context. So it makes sense that we should understand that ancient context to the best of our ability.