God loves homosexuals, but does not approve of their actions.

Dear friend, Thank you for reading my page. I have indeed read the bible versus you have presented to me several times before and find that I must disagree when you say God "clearly states" that homosexuality is a sin. Of all those versus, the only one that seems to be inexplicably against homosexuality is Leviticus, which most Chirstians dismiss as outdated. Even you probably break some of the laws in Leviticus. Do you wear polyester cotton blend? God clearly stated that wearing two differnt fibers at the same time is a sin. Have you ever hugged your friend while she was on her period? According to God, that makes you unclean, and you should not be touched for at least thirty days. As you can see, the Jewish laws established in Leviticus are spurned by most Chrisitians nowadays. One could also argue that the reason homosexuals were so abominable to the Jews during that time was because Abraham's descendents were to be as "countless as the stars," and two men settling down together was something that got in the way of that. As for Romans, the title of this section, if I remember, is something about punishment of idolators, people who worshipped worldly things, and not God. The description given here is homosexuality driven purely by lust. Paul was most likely trying to emphasize on worship of the flesh and pleasure to his audience (especially the men) by including the aspect of sodomy. Back in the day, men were often justified for their many affairs with women because they had "special needs" that could only be fulfilled by sex with various women. It was only "natural". But for one to be so obsessed with sex, that one eventually tires of women and moves on to men was to be driven by a spirit of lust. While nowadays, there are indeed permiscuous homosexuals who have sex with several partners and are driven purely by lust, there are also homosexuals who merely want what anyone else would want: companionship and love, neither of which are worldly desires. The story of Sodom, is also one that I don't think condemns homosexuality as much as you think it does. Once again, the men who come to Lot's house for the angels are also driven by lust, and not just a physical lust, but a lust to overpower with violence. Because Lot has taken these angels into his home, he is obliged to protect them from these men who threatened them. What appears to be the sin here, is not homosexuality, but rape. Ah, but Lot offered them his daughters, you say, which would have also been rape. However, the fact that Lot offered up his daughters instead of the angels could have simply been a demonstration of his devotion to God, that he would rather allow his own daughters to be harmed then the messengers of his Lord. This would also parallel his brother's own child sacrifice when Abraham offered Issac up to God. When the men reject the daughters, this is not necessarily proof of their homosexuality, but their proud stubborness by only settling with what they damand of Lot and nothing less. Either way, it was not necessarily homosexuality that was the major sin of Sodom, but destructiveness in itself. I don't quite understand how the verse from Matthew that you presented to me in any way proves that romantic relationships are only to be between man and woman. If I'm not mistaken, Jesus was discouraging divorce in this verse, stating that, because in marriage men and women become one, they cannot simply be separated by legal means after being conjoined both physically and spiritually. He never says anything about this union being exclusively heterosexual, he only states that such has been the custom for every Jewish man. And honestly, who choses who they fall in love with? One does not simply say "I cannot fall in love with you, you're the same gender as me!" Once one falls in love, the damage is done, there's no changing your mind. After all, it is not man who choses who one falls in love with, but God.