Homo and bi sexuality is against the Bible

I am not splitting hairs. Homosexuals are attracted to individuals of the same gender. There are more than a few who are Christian and choose not to act on those feelings specifically because the condemnation is upon the actions and not upon the feeling. Further, a good many Christian groups specifically council homosexuals to not engage in homosexual activities. At least those who aren't so stupid as to figure they can fix gay with prayer. You claim that attraction is not a key issue that finding individuals attractive does not make one homosexual. I must strongly rebuke this statement as patently false. People are, in general, attracted to some particular gender. I find many women quite sexy and have not found any men as such. Regardless of actual sexual intercourse this makes me straight. Likewise, if one were to find those of the same gender attractive that would make one gay, regardless whom they had sex with. -- The Bible is quite clear on such pronouncements and it does not condemn the attraction but rather the sexual act. When a man lies with a man as one would a woman it is an abomination. The Bible does not say that when a man finds another man attractive its an abomination. Would you consider all virgins to be asexual? What about a child whose only sexual encounter unwilling and with a gender he or she does not find attractive? As for your claim that thoughts about doing something shameful as condemned by the Bible, I believe you refer only to Matthew 5:28 which reads: "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. " Clearly what sticks out most pronounced is the genders involved. Men looking lustfully at women is "adultery in his heart". However, accepting your premise that this applies between any genders one is faced with problem: this would apply to any genders. This argument you make applies to just as soundly condemn heterosexuality as it could be construed to condemn homosexuality. This clearly is a pronouncement against adultery and moving it remarkably close to a general all purpose thought-crime. One could, at best, use this to conclude that we are all sinners in the eyes of God and therefore God sees homosexuals as sinners! This argument does not hold water. One need not act on an attraction for the attraction to exist. We consider virgins to be homosexual and heterosexual based on their desires. Actions need not be taken and it is for these actions that one is condemned to die by biblical law. I fully understand the Bible condemns homosexual sex. It does so in no uncertain terms. One may choose to construct elaborate schemes by which the plainly written commandments become ambiguous or to use such similar pronouncements to rebuke the Bible itself. After all, the Bible also clearly condones slavery and condemns shellfish, to have a child is deemed a sin and to have a female child is twice as sinful, picking up sticks on a Saturday and murdering your father on a Monday are equal crimes in the eyes of the Bible. -- Why should we not overlook all such antiquated ideas of justice? My reason is because specifically the topic is whether or not the Bible actually condemns homosexuality, not as to the backwardness of doing so. I fully concede that the Bible condemns homosexual sex. One need not make the case on those grounds. Homosexual sex is clearly condemned and one is to murder those engaged in such actions. I must, however, make clear that all of these are specifically the action of homosexual sex. One must be careful to note that there is no word for homosexuality in ancient Hebrew, the wording therefore depends strongly on the description of the act: lie with a man as one lieth with a women, used contrary to nature, abusers with mankind... these are all descriptions of the actions. We do not see anywhere a condemnation of attraction for other men or sexual desire except that of a man for another women which cannot be so construed as be remotely specific as to the genders involved to include homosexuals desires while excluding others. The Bible opposes homosexual sex. However the existence as a homosexual is not condemned by any jot or tittle. Make no mistake, there are more than a few Christian homosexuals who do not engage in homosexual acts because only the acts are condemned. They are depriving themselves of love and life and sex and a large measure of happiness because of some bronze aged nonsense. However, they are clearly not in any violation of biblical commandments.