Literally, the Torah forbids Straight men situational homosexuality

For those open to rethinking interpretations since the Sixties, I combined traditional Orthodox Judaism and my own research to suggest that Leviticus 18:22 is aimed at heterosexual men choosing intercourse with a man in place of a woman, not Gay men doing what is natural to them.

On Yom Kippur afternoon, again, we will read Leviticus’s list of forbidden sexual relationships.

Ever since Pride was claimed as a motto to counter society’s shame, Jews have cringed at the verse that seemed to condemn homosexual men.

In a lengthy book, not yet published, after a lot of research, I argue that this Injunction is actually for Straight men only, to refrain from so-called replacement, transient, situational, or emergency homosexuality. Some use alcohol to lower their inhibitions; being sex-starved suffices for others.

Chief Rabbi Abraham Kook and Reb Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe, 1981, on Even Ha’ezer, 1978, quoted in Judaism and Homosexuality, 2004, by Rabbi Chaim Rapoport), both........

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