1. This was said by St. Paul, not by Jesus Christ. Jesus never said ANYTHING about homosexuality. Nada. Zero. Zilch. St. Paul never even met Jesus Christ and only was a Christian AFTER His Death/Resurrection/Ascenion into Heaven.
2. St. Paul hated human sexuality. It's his teachings that the Church uses to guilt, repress and control its flock to do their bidding.
3. He seems to be talking more of gay prostitution not gay love.
Ok, lets see what Jesus has to say then. Jesus concerns with the motivations of the individual’s heart rather than mere outward conformity to accepted social norms or the code of the Law, Jesus spoke of sexual sins as originating in the fallen nature of man’s innermost self.
He says in Matthew 15:1-20 defilement comes from within:
"Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father or mother.’Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.’
”When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.” So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries(MOICHEIA), fornications (PORNEIAI), thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
In this passage adultery and fornication are both mentioned. Adultery of course refers to sexual infidelity when one is married. Fornication is usually taken to mean heterosexual intercourse before marriage. However the Greek word translated “fornication,” (porneia, from whence our word “pornography”), is actually a broad word used in the Bible “to denote any form of sexual behavior which is not in accord with Old Testament regulations and the teaching of the apostles…” (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1982). HOMOSEXUAL behavior is without doubt included in the meaning of this word.
And in Mark 7:21-23 Jesus says,
"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries (MOICHEIA), fornications (PORNEIA), murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness(ASELGEIA) an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
So you still believe Jesus never spoke one word about homosexuality? I can say that he actually spoke two. In His sin list in Mark 7, we find two words that arguably include homosexual behavior within the scope of their meaning. One is the term PORNEIA, a word which has been much studied and commented upon. The other is the word ASELGEIA, a word on which precious little study has been done. The great Bible commentator William Barclay considers aselgeia to be possibly the “ugliest word” in the list of New Testament sins. He capsulizes the word’s meaning as “utter shamelessness.” It is variously translated as “licentiousness, ”“wantonness,” and “lasciviousness.” It’s a word that Jesus (through Mark, his translator) might easily have enlisted as a euphemism or synonym for homosexual activity and other similarly shocking behavior forbidden by the Jewish law.
Actually, what Jesus was interested in above all else was love. Love seeks the best interests of the beloved. Love gives unselfishly rather than taking. Koine Greek has several words for love: affection, brotherly love, and agape. There are also numerous words for lust, and lust frequently disguises itself as love in our society. Homosexuality is not merely an issue of genital sexual conduct — it has to do with distortions of what the Bible means by real love.
