However, some people, because there's no condemnation in the Old Testament against lesbianism, they wish to promote that there's nothing wrong with a lesbian relationship.
This view is prevalent in liberal christianity, but also very much present in liberal Judaism. Sometimes the later say that the Rabbis of old were in hand with such a view. However, let's see what the one who is considered the greatest of the rabbis think about it, Maimonides:
For women to be mesollelot with one another is forbidden, as this is the practice of Egypt, which we were warned against: "Like the practice of the land of Egypt . . . you shall not do" (Leviticus 18:3). The Sages said [in the midrash of Sifra Aharei Mot 8:8–9], "What did they do? A man married a man, and a woman married a woman, and a woman married two men."Even though this practice is forbidden, one is not lashed [as for a Torah prohibition] on account of it, since there is no specific prohibition against it, and there is no real intercourse. Therefore, [one who does this] is not forbidden to the priesthood because of harlotry, and a woman is not prohibited to her husband by this, since it is not harlotry.But it is appropriate to administer to them lashings of rebellion [i.e., those given for violation of rabbinic prohibitions], since they did something forbidden. And a man should be strict with his wife in this matter, and should prevent women known to do this from coming to her or from her going to them.
Anyway, lesbianism, and any other kind of deviancy, is not allowed in the Scriptures!!!
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