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The Bible writers, just like many of us, really could conceive of only one sexual orientation, hetero-naturality. The perverse, same-gender sexual activity they most frequently observed — fertility cult worship, pederasty (mentoring young boys for sexual favors), and public humiliation of conquered enemies — all bear out their understanding that such acts were unnatural for hetero-natural people. Variations of orientation probably existed then, but there was no way that they could recognize them. All prohibitions against same-gender sexual conduct in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were written with the culture-bound assumption that God created Adam and Eve only, not Adam and Steve. But the fact is that God created humankind with variations of androgen and estrogen in every baby (Andrew & Esther?), producing a continuum of gender identities and orientations that are only now being properly understood.