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Thanks for your response.

I try to ignore the flaming tones of the more emotionally involved posters, but I do get irritated when the only sins mentioned are ones the posters are unlikely to commit. I don't see comments on adultery, yet that is right up there with murder in the Ten Commandments.

I am also not confident that the lines I ususally see interpreted as condemning lesbianism (Romans 1:26 and 27) actually do so. Whan I read various translations I can see it as allowing anal intercourse, an exact parallel to what is being condemned in men.

I don't see comments on adultery, yet that is right up there with murder in the Ten Commandments.

The reason you don't see discussion of adultery is because the topic is not about adultery.

If you want a discussion on adultery then start a thread on adultery.

We must first look in Genesis with regard to the sexual relationship between husband and wife. Marriage relationships throughout old/new testament are never described as a loving relationship between two individuals regardless of gender. Lev. 18:22 makes it quite clear. Read carefully through the account of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Romans 16:26&27-
"Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with WOMEN(my emphasis) and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." (NIV)

On the contrary, this passage doesn't speak of specific acts of sexual intercourse, but rather the lustful behavior as being unnatural. I do have several translations, and unless an individual reads into the text, it is clear as to what the Lord is saying with regard to homosexuality.

I should mention that I have family members who are openly, and proudly gay. They will be the first to tell you that I love them deeply, and treat them no different than family members who are straight. I've had discussions on this topic and we obviously disagree, but I never attack them. Sin is sin, regardless of the kind. And Christ makes it perfectly clear that He came to this earth to die, and to be resurrected, for ALL sins(with exception to the unpardonable).

My apologies for the long response, but felt the post needed to be said.