I grew up Jehovah's Witness. When I was a little kid i asked my dad if i could spend the night at my friend's house, and i told him "don't worry Dad i won't lie with him, I'll sleep in a different bed."

I grew up in terror of attractions I didn’t understand. I knew I liked girls, so I had no idea why certain guys made my stomach flip or my cheeks flush. I was so scared that I was gay. I knew I’d be something “different” than myself if I was.

It took me 30 years and deconstruction starting with your videos to realize that I was bi. I was already married by that point. Homophobia took something precious from me.

Thankfully, now I’m proud of who I am. So thank you Dan. I hope this video reaches so many people

Really loved the section on disgust sensitivity. Kind of makes clear the idea that we aren't thinking animals that feel, we're feeling animals that happen to think. We have a feeling that we then have to rationalize, often not in great ways.

I recall one researcher on sexual disgust sensitivity: "Imagine two really ugly people having sex. It's disgusting right? But you wouldn't say because you found it disgusting, that you would prohibit them from being with each other." The same applies for homosexuality. Just because you have an intuitive aversion to it gives you no right to interfere with their private lives.

(From Richard Dawkins' documentary: Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life)

I have a vasectomy, so Leviticus says I'm not allowed inside the building.

When i hear the phrase "clobber passages", i think of the Thing saying "It's clobberin time!"

Regardless, the laws of primitive cultures from 1000s of years ago don't shouldn't apply to people in 2025. I don't ride a camel or an ox, I don't sell my daughters, and I don't own slaves. We shouldn't have to debate this.

Dan, I can assure you that practicing Catholic gay men my age (65) who have indeed been in longterm loving relationships (32 years, in my case), and who came out 50 years ago (no easy times, back then) are deeply appreciative of your ongoing work in this regard. Many thanks.

Thank you, Sir. As a middle aged gay man who grew up as a teenager in the 80s in a rural town, I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate your videos. I spent a lot of years in self loathing trying to “pray the gay away” when I was Christian. Your videos have helped me understand the Bible more than I ever could have when I was a believer.

I finally understand why some people believed that gay people were causing hurricanes. That kind of logic makes sense 3,000 years ago but not today.

Man this was one of the deepest and most profound discussions of homosexuality and ancient sexuality I have ever seen. Brilliant work.

Shellfish & haircuts are prohibited in the same chapters as m/m intercourse.  So...

I'm a farmer.  A given tree will grow a lot of cherries.  If you pick all of them, you are going to end up eating a lot of worms & your entire harvest is going to rot.  Why people decided that shrimp & buzzcuts are OK while gay marriage isn't is beyond me.  I guess it gives them someone to hate.

Your last point on how the condoning and regulating of slavery within the bible moved from being an accepted as an explanation of how the world works to an historical footnote of Bronze Age life, and how that connects to the status of homosexuals is a great observation. I like that we are doing the same journey as more and more people discard homophobia as a marker of their identity or belief system, but it is sobering to consider that it took a century of continuous agitation and ultimately a civil war to complete that move (officially at least). We are moving along a similar spectrum of change but I hope it doesn't culminate in a second armed conflict. The current pushback against all things 'woke' does have unpleasant echoes of the polarization of the 1850s.

Video: They didn't have the notion of two men being in love with each other.

Thinking of it I get the feeling that they also didn't have the notion of a man and a woman being in love.

I hope your insight about slavery is true, I e. "We" have decided slavery is wrong. If this is so  we (a smaller group) can have hope that these other value systems can be abandoned for more effective and inclusive systems which we (smaller still) are trying to live by in a seemingly cruel world reluctant to change or perhaps indignant against change. Thank you for always wading in to pull us out of the muck.

The identity markers will ALWAYS be more important than the lives they damage.  
Always.
Nobody using those clobber passages cares one little bit about who they hurt.

Brilliant. You are such a precious person in such a dark age. ❤

Something you implied but didn't state about the ancient peoples you discuss: they also didn't understand heterosexuality the way we (or some of us) do today either.

i love when people quote Leviticus at me...

"Well, i dont 'lay with women', so its all good bro"

"No! its still a sin!"

"No, it says 'as you *would lay with a woman*', i dont lay with women therefore it doesnt apply to me..."


they usually dont accept what i say and just throw a tantrum, but its still fun to watch them have an existential crisis.

Beautiful methodical sound reasoning… I very much admire this person and the way he is using this platform