In the only instance where homosexuality is mentioned in Paul’s letter to the Romans, verses 26 & 27, it is identified as the punishment God inflicts on heterosexuals for the sin of idolatry. Period.
You’re using the same, old religious fundamentalist tactic of trying to pontificate & force feed all inclusive blanket statements from meager & vague Bible passages such as when one points out that the only laws personally (written by the very "finger of God") given to mankind by way of Moses, the Ten Commandments, do not contain any mention of homosexuality, fundamentalist nit pickers start quoting Leviticus which they allege contains prohibitions against homosexual acts. Not only do they quote Old & New Testament passages which they erroneously believe to be condemnatory of homosexuality but start dredging for any remote homophobic utterance by early Christian leaders who never knew Jesus nor the Apostles.
The following are some examples of wacko sex related utterances by early Christian leaders that nobody in their right minds today would find remotely sane let alone acceptable.
From http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2105.htm
Saint Thomas Aquinas believed that deviation from the 'missionary position' was worse than intercourse with one's own mother.
St Bernadine of Siena (d. 1444) said that if a woman knows that her husband is going to practise coitus interruptus, she must 'resist her husband to the death'
Theodore of Tarsus set the penalty for oral intercourse at up to a lifetime of penance, but for premeditated murder seven years...
Egbert, archbishop of York, punished anal intercourse with seven years' penance, murder with four to five years
Petrus Cantor (d. 1197) 'opined that intercourse with a beautiful woman was a greater sin than with an ugly one, because it gave more delight'
BTW, Ainea, I believe you quoted St .Augustine recently to back up something you said. What do you think about the following? “...Augustine believed that those born deaf are damned to hell because Paul says 'faith comes by hearing' (Romans 10:17) (p.241)!”
Ainea wrote: “...I wonder about any man who would fill over 600 pages of any book with observations of animal sexual practices. This demonstrates an unhealthy preoccupation with sex..”
Response: That’s over 600 pages of documented scientific observations of animals in their natural habitat (not in captivity or specially bred) over the span of two hundred years by many
different scientists specializing in animal behavior in which animals from insects, to reptiles, to birds, to mammals engage in homosexual intercourse even in the presence of abundant sexual partners of the opposite sex.
Ainea wrote: “...when mating season comes the males don't try to mate with males they fight for dominance...”
Response: What academic credentials do you possess to contest published papers by scientists in which they state the following observations on homosexual mountings between Bighorn Sheep in
the wild?
“...In mountain sheep, there are sharp seasonal differences in the proportion of same-sex activity. During the rut (about two months out of the year), approximately a quarter of all mounts are are
between males; during the rest of the year, virtually all mounts are homosexual..." - page 35.
In the first posting of the above Bighorn Sheep, I said the info came from page 25 of Bagemihl’s book - it’s actually from page 35.
Even in the rutting season, ONE QUARTER of the mounting was observed to HOMOSEXUAL between male rams.
Ainea wrote: “...Sexual relationships are a choice regardless of what people want to believe about animal sexuality. Animals act on instinct...”
Response: You can’t have it both ways. If you quote Bible to allege that homosexuality is “contra natura” (against nature) only to have nature itself refute Holy Scripture with widespread homosexuality in the animal kingdom, then you cannot deny human homosexuality to be instinctual & also insist that a homosexual human has to refrain from his natural instinct, deny him or herself a lifelong, committed relationship with a same-sex partner & condemn him or herself to lifelong celibate bachelorhood because to act out a natural sexual orientation NOT of his or her choice is against God’s will is absurd & unacceptable.