bshearer, I urge caution. First, homosexuality is not an act - sexual intercourse is an act. The orientation that we call homosexuality is not clearly mentioned in the Bible.
Second, all five of the passages in the Bible that mention homosexual acts are passages with a major translational or cultural impediment to understanding. They are not at all clear-cut.
Third (and for instance) the Sodom story is an atrocious rape scene. We've no way of knowing what or whether the homosexual part of it contributed to its subsequent judgment.
This is a case that has been made out to be much clearer in Scripture than it honestly is - even to an evangelical pastor like me. There's just no way to get be...

bshearer, I urge caution. First, homosexuality is not an act - sexual intercourse is an act. The orientation that we call homosexuality is not clearly mentioned in the Bible.
Second, all five of the passages in the Bible that mention homosexual acts are passages with a major translational or cultural impediment to understanding. They are not at all clear-cut.
Third (and for instance) the Sodom story is an atrocious rape scene. We've no way of knowing what or whether the homosexual part of it contributed to its subsequent judgment.
This is a case that has been made out to be much clearer in Scripture than it honestly is - even to an evangelical pastor like me. There's just no way to get beyond "some think" as a summary of the evidence from these passages together, into "we know."
Jesus is a barrier-breaker, radically loving people the religious conservatives of his day despise. That, "we know," and can - and must - follow.