I live in Portland where my wife is pastor to a small Methodist Church. We have a lady from “back east” staying with us while she attends the festivities so we get daily reports about the proceedings. My wife and I are pretty conservative while the lady is more liberal. This leads to some interesting exchanges.
I asked her last week to read and comment on four passages from the Bible: Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Genesis 1:28 and Malachi 3:6. She said she’d look at them but so far all I’ve heard is crickets. I have an idea that she has “forgotten” about it.
I’m not a Biblical scholar like my wife but I’ve noticed that whenever God was laying down the law on a subject he started his statement with “Thou shalt...” while a lot of the lesser rules and regulations were left to be interpreted to some extent. Leviticus 18:22 is a case in point and when it is followed with Malachi 3:6 it leaves gays and lesbians to either admit the seriousness of their sin or leave the Christian religion entirely. Either is acceptable to me.
Since you are asking your guest to exegete scripture, you might look at 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Timothy 3:2, Titus 1:6.