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

Your profile says that you believe in God, that you are homosexual, and that you believe God does not disapprove of homosexuality. You defend this by saying God does not disapprove of love. I believe that you are correct about God not disapproving of love, however I think you are incorrect in thinking that God approves of homosexuality. God clearly states in the Bible that homosexuality is a sin. It is directly addressed in Leviticus and Romans as a immoral act: LEVITICUS 18:22--- " 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.'" LEVITICUS 20:13--- " 'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.'" ROMANS 1:26-27--- "26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." GENESIS 29:4-11--- "4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men (These men are said to be angels in earlier verses) who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." 6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof." 9 "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. 10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door." These verses make it uncomfortably evident that homosexuality is wrong, saying it is unnatural and sinful. Leviticus 20:13 says that homosexuality was even PUNISHABLE BY DEATH in the Old Testament. That rule only applied in the Covenant of Works, though, and was abolished in the New Testament when Jesus' death on the cross put the Covenant of Grace into affect. I must make it clean however that nowhere in the Bible does it say that homosexuals are worse than any other sinner, all it says is that it is a sin. Homosexuality was one of the main reasons Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed (hence the names "sodomy" for homosexual sex). You are right in saying that God approves of love. All throughout the Bible God is commanding us to love eachother. Romantic relationships, however, are defined as one man and one woman. MATTHEW 19:4-5--- He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his WIFE (implying that it is a woman), and the two shall become one flesh." All of these verses make it plainly evident that homosexuality is wrong, and that God does not approve of their actions. In your argument I would like you to explain why you think that God, Jesus, and homosexuality are compatible. Thanks!