I thought all the anti-gay stuff was in Leviticus?
The two Chapters are actually concerned with the practices of Canaanites and how they are not be repeated by the Jews. That did include Homosexuality, but other things as well, such child sacrifices, which would be odd to include, if you were just talking about sexual crimes. I thought that Romans 1 was also explicit in it's condemnation of Homosexuality. There is a good reson why Homosexuality is spoken of little in the Bible, is that most of the time it was never a problem in Jewish culture. It was something that happened outside of the culture, which is why Paul was addressing the issue in a letter to Romans.
The animal argument one is a poor one, since we have animals doing things that we have laws against, such as rape, incest and bestiality. Yet we are not going to trumpet that as being natural. Many bad things happen to us because we do things that we should not be doing, but if we do it is "natural"?
@El_Mach. Galatians 5 is talking the exact opposite of what you are trying to say. He is talking that you should not be trying to live under the law, because that is doing the works of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16-23 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Here he is comparing the two, the works of the Flesh and the works of the Spirit. I would say that homosexual behaviour would fall under the term fornication, since Paul says to the Corinthians in his first letter to them, to avoid fornication by having sex in the realm of marriage, and he explicitly says that a man should have a wife and a woman should have a husband.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
The reason for this part is that in the church at Corinth, there were two types of people regarding the issue of sexual morality. One tpye was of the view that, since you are now a believer, you are free to do whatever you want. The other group was a reaction to this group and they spoke that all forms of sex was wrong. Paul had already addressed the first group in the two previous chapters and now he is getting onto th second group, by showing the true purpose of what sex is and that is in the bounds of marriage and he had to specify that a man has a wife and woman has a husband, since they were in the city of Corinth and since it was a city that even back in that time the surrounding people saw them as being morally loose. Homosexuality was not that uncommon, especially in Corinth, but he specifically spoke in those terms so that proper sexual relations was for one man and one woman only.
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