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After looking up the definition of "Homosexuality", I must disagree that it is not a sin.

Homosexuality is defined as, "the quality or state of being homosexual" and, "erotic activity with another of the same sex".

Seems to me that God was speaking to the evil of being homosexual as well as engaging in activity of a sexual nature with a person of the same sex. I will defer to God as being the authority on this issue.

You can not be held in sin for the desire to do something. That is in fact the definition of temptation. It is the action on that temptation that creates sin. You can also create sin by nurturing that temptation in thought. However, that sin of thought is certainly a minor sin when compared to the the sin of action.

It is much the same as the idea of a sin of action and a sin of inaction. you can certainly sin in your thoghts, however the mere existence of a proclivity to sin is not a sin.

I have the proclivity, desire, TEMTATION, to have multiple sex partners. I chose not to act on that desire. I also chose to avoid situations that may lead to the completion or action of that desire (The near occasion of sin. To damn someone for a desire is unwarranted, unkind and unchristian.

This is the very teaching of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches on the subject of Homosexuality. The guiding authorities of over a billion people is good enough for me.

Homosexuals are to be chased in their lives. As all unmarried people are. They are to have full lives and rewarding lives. Yet, should avoid the sin of fornication, sodomy AND the near occasion of these desired sins.

We have to remember that the sin of Homosexual acts is different from the desire or TEMPTATION to engage in those acts.