Jesus didn't overturn _any_ Jewish laws. All we know is that he did _something_ in the Temple which was never clearly defined. In fact I believe he said, "I have come not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Not the smallest letter, or the tiniest stroke of a letter will be erased."
What you are thinking of is St. Pail's Epistle to the Romans wherein he basically said you don't have to be Jewish to be Christian. That wasn't until around 55 or 56 C.E. - long after Jesus had died. Sorry, I don't know enough of the quote to find, um, the quote.
And actually, what is now called "sodomy" was defined in the middle-ages by a monk, who's name I can't recall, who wrote down all the sexual things people shouldn't do. Well, anything he could think of. He had special permission from the Pope. It's quite an interesting menu. Homosexuality isn't referenced in Genesis 19 directly; it refers, rather, to rape. |
