It's always hard to make an argument from silence. I don't know of anyone who has argued on this basis that lesbianism is OK but gay male sex is not. The whole Bible speaks quite positively about same-sex intimacy (although not same-sex sex). Prager hints that lesbianism was simply not something that arose in Hebrew culture.

This would be consistent both with Greenberg's findings that pre-industrial cultures have different ways in which homosexuality does and does not express itself. (Greenberg) It would also be consistent with the pro-gay argument that homosexuality as we know it today was simply unknown in Bible times, although that assumption problematic on other grounds, as I discuss in answer to a question about gnosticism, and another question about St. Paul's supposed naivete.

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