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Homosexuality is referred to as an Abomination in the Bible, to my knowledge, there is no other sin that is given that adjective.

Furthermore, if you read to the end of the passage in Romans 1 that covers homosexuality, Paul rightly describes homosexuals as the following:

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

I'm not sure, but I don't think it gets worse than this.

Lastly, people who truly repent, will freely, and honestly tell you that they were/are the worst of sinners (this is true repentence) because they came to know themselves as God sees them outside of His Grace.

That being said, I’ve met only a few people in my life, and they were homosexuals, that would fall into the description of vs. 28 through 32 and they are truly miserable people, and yet, going full-speed ahead to hell.

I’ve always felt that maybe God gave them over to this type of sinful “disease” in a last-ditch effort to wake them up, much like the prodigal son.

All those nasty things at the end, INDEPENDENT of homosexual conduct, are unfortunately all too prominent in the lives of what are, perhaps, barely born again Christians. They are “delivered to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme” and will be saved in the end, however, they are not very helpful as witnesses during that time and might even be anti-witnesses.

We have a problem of too many Christian hypocrites in America... and you seem to be making excuses for them if not actually being one of them... who are NOT honoring God in their bodies or even seriously essaying to do so! And they will NOT be able to minister the gospel in its redeeming aspect to people with “homosexual sin problems.”

And the scapegoating, by those hypocrites as well as, apparently, by you, is for an ugly reason: to hide their weak expression of the gospel. Which would otherwise be reaching out to such people and pulling them OUT of their sin by the GRACE of God.

Now your sin is not unpardonable... but God really wants you to repent now, rather than waiting till just before you squeak through the pearly gates. You’ll be more useful on earth to Him that way. So many Christians underestimate the blood of Christ, oh it can reach to THIS sinner but not to THAT sinner. And we don’t expect THIS sinner to have a completely cleaned up act before we can acknowledge the work of God in his life, but by our pride, we expect THAT sinner to!

And I will not be surprised if your answer to this is to profess bewilderment. Sin fogs a mind. Grace clears it.