So the newspaper got that screwed up. You’ve just described how Protestants also look at homosexuals versus homosexual acts. No problem there, then, and that seems the right way to interpret the Bible, too.
The Guardian is a notorious far-left rag. It's probably more of a far-left rag than any daily paper in the US. It's politically closer to something like Mother Jones or The Nation.
You can -- for the most part -- read what the Guardian says, and then believe the opposite.