Human rights organisation Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.
In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with “specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide”.
Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the accusations of genocide as “baseless lies” and accused Amnesty International of being a “radical anti-Israel organisation”.
And consenting heterosexuals in the U.S. Blow jobs are also considered sodomy, even amongst consenting adults.
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sodomy
The Supreme Court (finally) struck down the remaining anti-sodomy laws in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas but most states had either repealed their laws or had their law struck down by their state’s Supreme Court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States
Yeah, that stems from the original sense of the word. The story goes a bit like this:
In Genesis 19, Sodom is visited by 2 angels and they were pressured by the men of Sodom to have sex with them. This lead to the interpretation of homosexual activities being an original sin, but there are accounts in the bible that it was not meant that way. Mainly Ezekiel 16:49 which reads
So, the sexual advances were likely meant to serve as an example of decadence rather than a stipulation that homosexual activities are sins. But it was simply easier to hate on a marginalized group rather than undergoing the onerous task of actually becoming a better human being.