the absence of such a view in his cultural environment and then project it on Paul as Brownson does. When Paul therefore says that “men … gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another” (Rom 1:27), he is not revealing ignorance about sexual orientation; Paul does not necessarily believe that all men are born straight and could not have been born with sexual desires for men. For Paul, the question of orientation is irrelevant. Homosexual unions violate the boundaries