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Is homosexuality punishment for something else...

the person or persons did?

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became

futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ...

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 1:1-27-31 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1%3A21-27&version=NIV

II Peter 2:2 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=II+Peter+2%3A2&version=NIV

Jude 1:4 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1%3A4&version=NIV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1&version=NIV

If we know it to be wrong and don’t say something...do we approve and deserve death?

Did Jesus approve the “Old Testament” laws? Yes.

Can he grant forgiveness? Yes.

How do we get forgiveness...Sinner on the Cross prayer?

Had Jesus’ covenant/Testament gone into effect before his death?...or after...his death?

Hebrews 9:16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Hebrews 9:15-17 (in Context) Hebrews 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=death+of+the+testator&searchtype=phrase&version1=AKJV&language1=en&spanbegin=1&spanend=73

Men and brothers, what shall we do?

37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”(AW)

38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized,(AX) every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.(AY) And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.(AZ) 39 The promise is for you and your children(BA) and for all who are far off(BB)—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202&version=NIV

Can the U.S.A be “saved” ?

*2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+7%3A14+&version=NIV