The way I feel about it is that I have enough baggage to carry with me to judgment day, that I find I have to much to condemn in myself, to dare to instruct another.
That does not mean I will suffer it's acceptance as a normal element of society. We are called to behave higher than the animals, even though we are flesh animals ourselves we contain what they do not, we contain a spirit that will either live or die according to our decisions.
Excellent post, MAP.
"God refers to turning certain people over to a reprobate mind, a physical change to the brain, where men lust for men and their women lust for other women receiving into ....."
There may very well a change in the brain...I was reading where the types of raw sex that homosexuals practise have induced hypothalmic changes similar to the way cocaine acts on the brain.
The pleasure sensors there in conjunction with the mental imprinting that occurs prefrontally(you get mentally programmed to only enjoying the actual style of sex that got you into trouble in the first place)literally locks a person's thinking into a pattern that becomes almost impossible save for God's grace and extreme fear of death and hell to break out of!
Homosexual sex is like cocaine addiction in its power to keep a person trapped in a spiraling downward path of depression and internal self revulsion, contrasted with increased outward disdain for anything good or spiritual!
The good news is that it does seem possible for homosexuals and lesbians to break the hold of sexual addiction thru God's grace. Many of them have had their sexual orientations healed and have married and have wonderful families. Some of them simply, hold their own thru the power of the cross and don't fullfill the urges of their flesh any longer. After all the memories, much like Paul's thorn of the flesh, will linger and the evil one will rub salt into the wounds on occasion...just to test!