WERE THE ROMANS QUEER?

Romans 1:1-31 Paul butters the Roman church up by telling them what great Christians he has heard that they are. v.16 He makes the famous speech about that he is not ashamed ...of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then he goes into his famous denouncement of homosexual, both women and men. I wonder if this tirade made the Roman Christian's angry? Why did Paul put this message in a letter to the Romans? The Greeks would have probably deserved this message more for they thought sex with women was to make babies. Sex with another man was the enjoyment! From what I've read the common Roman man or woman were not inclined to engage in same sex activities. This was not true of the rich who held orgies. What Paul describes in this same sex scene must have taken place in a pagan temple where idols were being worshipped. To read about one of these rituals, click http://books.iuniverse.com/booksfold...81060_0079.GIF
Oddly enough when pagans were condemned for their sexual preferences, they would answer, "We don't mutilate our boy babies by whittling away a part of their penis."
I just don't understand why Paul wrote this part about homosexuals here. It just seems out of place as much as the Kansas Baptist going to military funerals and condemning homosexuals for the death of military people fighting in the war against terrorist. I read a great deal about pagan temple orgies when I wrote the novel, Red Heifer. They were gruesome. When the new priests were initiated they were required to cut off their sexual organs with a stone knife so they could become male temple prostitutes.
http://search.earthlink.net/search?q...rea=earthlink- This link takes you to the Attis and Cybele cult worship rituals.

STUDY IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS

ATTEMPT TO STUDY BOOK OF ROMANS .. Comments good or bad welcomed.
Start with this site. BLUE LETTER BIBLE http://www.blueletterbible.org/ Go to Romans and play around with the different translations, the Greek word study, a commentary I’m not to sure of. Here are some sites on Romans. http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...omans+%28bible
I’ll post a few comments as I read from THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS by C.H. DODD. Charles Harold Dodd (7 April 1884-21 September 1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian. He was born in Wrexham, the brother of the historian A. H. Dodd. He studied classics at the University of Oxford from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he was influenced by Adolf Harnack. He was a Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, after being ordained in 1912, before going into academia. From 1915 he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford. He became Rylands Professor at the University of Manchester in 1930. He was Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1935, becoming emeritus in 1949.He directed the work of the New English Bible team, from 1950.