Until it isn't, then suddenly those passages are forgotten and ignored on Sundays. Keeping the gays down, because, again, some book written by nomadic tribes thousands of years ago is somehow seen as the last word in morality. But apparently word hasn't gotten out to the conservative Christians.

Various parts of the world have a 'third gender' that complicates, well, everything relating to western notions of 'man and woman are universal'.

reasons? The Greeks and Romans didn't have quite the same hangups on who put what where. Because almost two millenia of Christian domination of Europe has ingrained some notion of homosexuality as 'sinful' or otherwise 'icky', because of some stories from the Old Testament that were put in there for.