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If you are referring to this world, gays and lesbians are ostracized in Orthodox Jewish communities, but are accepted in nearly all forms of liberal Judaism. With the exception of Conservative Judaism (which is relatively congregationalist and therefore does not have a unified outlook from synagogue to synagogue) gay and lesbian marriages occur in Liberal Jewish communities and gays and lesbians can become cantors and rabbis.

If you are referring to the hereafter, Judaism does not presuppose the results of Divine Judgments. However, God makes it relatively clear in The Bible that gay and lesbian activities are wrong (Lev. 18:22). Judaism also makes a distinction that a person is punished by action, not belief (as opposed to Christianity) and a person has only committed the sin of homosexuality by performing homosexual sexual acts. A celibate homosexual violates the command to have children, but not the command to abstain from homosexuality.

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