The so-called "Moral Majority" does not have the moral high ground on the issue of Homosexuality! I'm tired of hearing them repeat "but its a sin" over and over again!
The Righteous Right has no right to put words in Jesus' mouth and it's high time we start confronting our repub friends when they repeat this nonsense!
This is not a "values" issue.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Homosexuals will go to hell. Nowhere is it listed as a sin. No standard study bible, concordance, or bible dictionary can say that either Moses or Jesus said anything at all about Homosexuals!
Just suggest they look in the Strong's Concordance of the Bible, which has an authoritative index of the King James version of the Bible. There are four references to Homosexuality. Three are in the Old Testament, and mainly refer to "sodomy" as unclean. However, the word "sodomy" was most often used to refer to gang rape in Old Testament times.
The only New Testament reference is not considered to be the words or teaching of Jesus. In Paul's Letter to the Romans (they openly practiced homosexualty at that time), and in ambiguous language that has been translated many ways, Paul calls it "unclean", "against nature", and "unseamly". Never uses the word Sin.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Bible concludes that both the Old and New Testaments references were to the common Graeco-Roman practice of sex between young boys (or slaves) and men.
This can be interpreted as a condemnation of child sexual abuse.(p.175)
And finally, don't forget Jesus' New Commandment, "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" John 13:34KJV.
My rant is over, thanks for listening...