One more thing which I want to let go because it's not important to my message but I just can't. You say, "homosexuality is condemned everywhere in the Bible." No, it is in some specific places (and it's important to understand the historical context because it is not as black and white as everyone believes). What is condemned "everywhere in the Bible," though, and far far far more than homosexuality:
I could go on and on. Take out a concordance and look up the references to those sins. There isn't even a comparison. As in human nature, we put a magnifying glass to everyone else in order to take the focus off ourselves. The Bible has warned repeatedly against doing this. And yet we continue to do it. If we ran around condemning the mean, judgmental, disrespectful, lying, cheating and stealing people? There wouldn't be a single one of us left. Not a single one. We are told to get the log out of our own eye and not worry about the speck in another's. If each one of us did that? This world would be a much better place. I'm not asking you to fix the world, though. I want you to fix yourself. Get the log out of your own eye.
