Of course, there are other passages in the Old and New Testament which seem to condemn homosexual practices and these will be dealt with in the next email. I plan to make a more detailed study of the New Testament as a whole but for now, I will try to describe the difference between homosexual acts and the orientation or situation and condition of being lesbian women and gay men that are entirely different contexts and categories. So there were no such relationships in the New Testament that Paul wrote of. Paul is therefore writing about the personal nature of the pagans in question. But this is an inadequate interpretation because Paul was not describing cold blooded, dispassionate acts in a ritual or ceremony.
Sexual desire is the motive for the behavior.
Their homosexual behavior is a mundane analogy of this theological sin. Romans 1, in fact, stigmatizes persons who have rejected their calling, gotten off the true path they were once on. To repeat, Paul did not discuss gay persons but only homosexual acts committed by heterosexual persons.