Judaism’s Punishment for Homosexuality: Being Thrown Off Buildings

Traditional Judaism commands the execution of homosexuals by throwing them off of high buildings.

Let’s look at the relevant proof texts.

The Hebrew Bible prescribes the execution of homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13).

13 “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

However, it does not prescribe a specific method for killing them.

The Talmud clarifies that the proper method for killing homosexuals is stoning (Sanhedrin 54a):

Rabbi Yishmael says: This phrase is written to come to teach about the punishment for homosexual intercourse, and the halakha that one is liable for anal intercourse with a woman who is forbidden to him is found to be derived from it.

 

The phrase “they shall be put to death” is referring to execution by stoning. Do you say that they are executed by stoning, or is it rather by one of all the other types of death penalty that are stated in the Torah? It is stated here: “Their blood shall be upon them,” and it is stated with regard to a necromancer and a sorcerer: “Their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:27). Just as there the verse states that a necromancer and a sorcerer are executed by stoning, so too here, they are executed by stoning.

The Talmud further clarifies that stoning is to be carried out by throwing a homosexual off a high platform (Sanhedrin 45a). If this kills the homosexual, then all is good. But if the homosexual survives, he is to be pelted with stones until death.

MISHNA: The place of stoning from which the condemned man is pushed to his death is a platform twice the height of an ordinary person. He is made to stand at the edge of the platform, and then one of the witnesses who testified against him pushes him down by the hips, so that he falls face up onto the ground. If he turned over onto his chest, with his face downward, the witness turns him over onto his hips. And if he dies through this fall to the ground, the obligation to stone the transgressor is fulfilled.

 

And if the condemned man does not die from his fall, the second witness takes the stone that has been prepared for this task and places, i.e., casts, it on his chest. And if he dies with the casting of this first stone, the obligation to stone the transgressor is fulfilled. And if he does not die with the casting of this stone, then his stoning is completed by all of the Jewish people, i.e., by all the people who assembled for the execution, as it is stated: “The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people” (Deuteronomy 17:7).

Also be aware that the Talmud commands Jews to prevent non-Jews from studying their religion – and to keep it hidden from them.

For this reason, Jewish apologists will rehearse standard propaganda points. Their favorite argument is that Judaism is a uniquely complicated religion which can only be understood by Jews.

According to Jewish activists, when Christian and Islamic religious texts prescribe the execution of homosexuals, it means that these religions endorse the execution of homosexuals. By contrast, when Jewish religious texts prescribe the execution of homosexuals, it means something too complex for racially-inferior non-Jewish minds to understand. Hence, non-Jews should simply keep silent about the matter.