Pray Away the Gay

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The opening of Leviticus 18 talks about the cananite practices to avoid

2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God. 3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.

Then it starts listing those rules.. all of them sexual and dealing with females. then they move into general/neighborhood women. Then they get to

21 “‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

and then your scripture and a bunch more following the same thread of rituals and sacrifices and bestiality. Offering children as a human sacrifice is attested in the Bible as a "foreign" practice among Israelites. Such children were burnt. Evidence from Phoenician archaeology seems to confirm such a practice among the descendants of Canaanite culture. The Bible texts describe such human sacrifices as offered to - or possibly "as" - molek in other places as well. It's when people were converting to Judaism and a lot of the temples picked up those foreign, pagan and cultural influences to make transition easier (like the catholics did with Christmas).