My wife and I enjoy this conversation every once in awhile. She pleads that ALL sin separate us from God, so that fornication is fornication, meaning that gay love is no worse than sex outside of marriage.
I am still stuck in revulsion. I was lead to believe that homosexuals are more apt to be pedophiles, and that they connect for sexual experience, not for love.
My wife thinks that maybe all that is my bias from Christian books I have read on the topic.
I really don’t know what to think.
Sorry to hear that you are unequally yoked to a non-Christian.
Study Romans 1.
It is a false doctrine that treats all sin as equally wicked. There are many passages of scripture that clearly teach that some sins are more wicked than others. For example, when God destroyed the earth with the flood, it was because of “great wickedness”. Likewise, when God destroyed Sodom, it was because there sin was “very grievous”. (See Genesis 6:5 & 18:20.) Also note that, in both cases, the perversion went even beyond homosexuality, and there is indication of seeking or engaging in sexual relations between humans & angels.
Homosexual desires and acts are abominable and serve to warn individuals and society that they are in danger of reprobation which is a degree of moral depravity which cries to Heaven for justice.
Greater tolerance of this sin is a precursor to the outpouring of divine wrath.
Jesus taught that Sodom could have been spared through repentance. (See Matthew 11:33.) If all sin is equal, why did God punish some more severely?