narrator’s repetition of the clause “Ham was the father of Canaan” at this juncture in the story may have been “to point more definitely to a kinship of mind between the two. The trait of inclination to the unclean is shared by father and son alike.”23 If this interpretation is correct, then it harks back to the condemnation of humanity even after the flood: “the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth” (Gen. 8:21). Thus the point is made from the very first hint of homosexual tendencies