Christians Should Accept and Love Homosexual People

I am of the firm belief that Christians should be accepting and loving of people who are homosexual. Of the few instances in the Bible where homosexuality is mentioned (the majority of which are in the old testament), many of them are in extenuating circumstances, or could have an ambiguous translation. Firstly, in Genesis (19:5), it describes the homosexual rape of messengers of God in Sodom and Gomorrah. What the punishment for this act (the burning of the two cities) may be because of, is the rape and not the homosexuality. This is reinforced later in the Bible, most prominently in Ezekiel 16: 49 and Zephaniah 2: 8-11, where it describes how the cities were destroyed for their arrogance and greed. Secondly, in Leviticus (18:22 and 20:13), it states how lying with a man as one would with a woman is an abomination. However, it is a theme in Judeo-Christian beliefs that semen is unclean, it should only be used for procreation. So, if semen goes anywhere else, it is dirty and a sin (see Genesis 38:8-10, for what happened to Onan). As a further point about Leviticus, if you're going to choose one law over any other, you are going against God and are sinning, and should stop eating bacon and shrimp, wearing mixed fabrics and should start sewing your own clothes and become a vegetarian. On the back of this point, as this concludes my look into the old testament, I would like to take a look at Hebrews 8:13. It says that the old covenant (the one made with the Israelites in the first 5 books of the Bible) is outdated and obsolete, and what is outdated and obsolete shall soon disappear. This says that all the old laws were too numerous and difficult to follow that God renounced them, and instead made the second covenant, consisting of 2 laws: love God and Love each other. Pretty self explanatory, right? Now, to the new testament. Another verse used to say that homosexuality is wrong is Romans 1:26-27. Firstly here, Paul uses the word "natural". To clarify, there are 2 possible meanings of the word: one, that whatever is occurring is in line with the scientific world, and two, that it is common, or normal. How can we know which Paul was using? Later in Romans, Paul describes God as "acting contrary to nature", what he means is not that God went against the natural order, but rather that God acted unexpectedly. Therefore, along with the fact that nobody can prove if Paul knows what is scientifically correct, it can be assumed that Paul was calling these relationships "uncommon". Secondly, Paul, in most translations, uses "relations" and "lusts" (and so "desires" and "affections" and "passions" and "sex") to denote that whatever is happening is not a loving and wholesome relationship between members of the same sex, but rather selfish and sexually gratifying lusts. In the same way people of God are against people who are gluttonous and selfishly sexual (the people who were the subject of God's disdain), and are, therefore, not people looking for loving relationships with one of the same sex as them. In conclusion, a Christian should love and accept their neighbour for who they are born to be. If we are all made in the image of God and God makes no mistakes, are homosexual people not meant to be homosexual? Love thy neighbour, and do not make judgement on them for who they are.