I do not see homosexuality as a disease, it is a sin, and with Jesus it can be overcome like all other sin. Repenting will not cure you of cancer.
“I do not see homosexuality as a disease, it is a sin, and with Jesus it can be overcome like all other sin. Repenting will not cure you of cancer.”
I have no dispute that the practice of homosexuality is a sin. Whether or not you call it a disease as well depends upon how you define the cause and/or the concept of disease.
For-example:
* If homosexuality is caused by a genetic mutation then it is a disease along the same-lines as down syndrome or Scoliosis. The Sin being the failure to resist.
* If on the other hand Homosexuality is a learned behavioral subject to original and free choice then Homosexuality is a disease along the same lines as alcoholism. The Sin again being the failure to resist.
You see my definition of a disease is:
1: A disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
or:
2: Any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disease
Not everybody accepts #2 and if you among the lot that reject #2 or its application to behavioral disease, while believing Homosexuality is purely a behavioral problem then I can understand your position.
One way or the other Homosexuality inhibits the essential life function of reproduction. That is its inevitable down fall for the individual and the civilization that embraces this disease.