How does the Torah and Talmud address homosexual unions between men?
It is evident that the Torah, as well as the Halachah, come out against those behaviors that we would label as homosexual. This is one of the primary prooftexts for this prohibitions: “Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman. It is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22) Although not specifically mentioned in Torah, our Oral Tradition expanded this prohibition to women. Liberal Judaism, being a movement that is informed by tradition but not directed by it, takes a somewhat different approach. Although there are rabbis and individuals who take the more stringent view, many in our movement use the research of modern science to understand that homosexuality may not be entirely a chosen state of mind or behavior. If this is the case, some feel, there ought not to be this firm prohibition. Our ancient scholars certainly did not know about the things that our scientists are discovering about the human mind, and some feel that they would not have made such a grand, sweeping cautionary law
