This allegedly is God's word on homoxexuality.
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Leviticus:ch18
22: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
24: Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26: Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled
28: That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29: For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30: Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
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And this is the weak argument that extremists use to demonize masturbation:
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8: And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
9: And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10: And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
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So, we have a passage that makes historical sense, as there weren't as many people around back then, and homosexuality meant that people weren't producing kids to help their village, and if they're not producing children, they're not only not being productive, they're taking up resources that others needed.
As for masturbation, the only reason that God decided to smite Onan is that he disobeyed an order to have children with his brohter's wife in order to continue his family line. The act itself was not wrong, ti was the reason he did it.
In modern times, neither of these applies. If your brother dies, you will look like a pervert if you go after his wife, and we are overpopulated, and failing to create children isn't a big problem anymore.