So where does it get you to call homosexuality a Sin?

     For the sake of this blog, I am going to concede the debate about whether or not the scriptures call Homosexuality a sin.  I am aware of the passages that have been quoted and argued about. I have read much of the literature by different Biblical scholars who explain those passages in many different ways.  But for the sake of this blog, I will concede that Homosexuality is a sin.

     Now that I have done that, and those of the more conservative persuasion have rejoiced that their position has been accepted. Homosexuality is a sin.  So now that that is settled where did that get us? Because it seems to me that calling Homosexuality a sin does not make any difference. I am a heterosexual sinners. I have those lusty thoughts that Jesus talked about.  And judging from the commercials, the TV programs, the movies, and the pornography on the Internet, there are a lot of us heterosexual sinners.  So homosexuality is a sinful. Heterosexuality is sinful.  Just because I marry a female does not mean that I stop being a sexual sinner in my thoughts, dreams, and fantasies.

     But that is not all. For the sake of this debate I have accepted the claim that homosexuality is a sin. I have countered that the heterosexuality is sinful too.  Now if we are taking the good book at its word, the concern about homosexuality is always included with a lot of other things.  Along with homosexuality the Bible talks about greed being a sin. The Bible talks about anger being a sin, it got Cain into trouble. The Bible talks about gluttony as being bad for you.  covetousness, robbery, drunkenness, extortioners, idolaters, adultery (that is my heterosexual sinners), abusers of themselves, (we haven't even begun to chastise them and call for self-abusers to be banned from society). Revilers, would that be bullies?  Why don't we demand the same treatment of bullies that we are yelling for for homosexuals?

     So it seems to me that calling homosexuality a sin does not get us very far.  It just means they are human beings. Sinners like the rest of us. Why should we be treating that sin any different from all the other sins we have already accommodated ourselves to?  Divorce is no big deal, right?  Babies without marriage looks like the mark of a celebrity.  Drunkenness is now a sickness. Greed is good according to Wall Street, and most of us want our money to be doing more, more, more.  Why do we think we invade Iraq in the first place?  Oil.

     Homosexual may want to claim that their sexual preference is not a sinful condition but in the theology of the Christian faith they are sinners anyway like the rest of us because they are humans.
Calling them sinners does not really get you very far.  They are sinners so what, so are all of us, how are we going to allow them their full human rights/