Bible might have originally permitted gay sex, leading scholar reveals.

Anti-gay protesters quote from Leviticus to oppose LGBT rights (Deborah Coleman/Getty)

A leading Bible scholar has claimed that passages in the Bible originally permitted gay sex – before passages were added calling it an ‘abomination’.

The extraordinary claim from Harvard fellow and Biblical scholar Idan Dershowitz calls into question the text of Leviticus that have been used to justify centuries of religious homophobia.