What is the point of this thread really?
"Homophobia" originally meant a man fearing that he himself was gay, so would rant against homosexuality to try to self prove he wasn't. This has evolved to anyone who does not 100% support all LGBT rights is "homophobic."
The Bible, OT and NT, harshly condemns the physical act of sex between men. No question of that. There is no condemnation of lesbians as per Biblical definition it is literally not possible for women to have sex. Sex specifically means penis in vagina in the Bible. That's why all verses about stoning homosexuals is always about males - and why to this day in Muslim countries only males are murdered or imprisoned for homosexuality.
It takes little thought to understand that if women couldn't "play" with each other, harems of as many as over 300 guarded by castrated men wouldn't work. In the Bible, it is impossible for two women to have sex together because neither of them have a penis. The verse about unnatural acts refers to bestiality, not lesbianism.
Of Christians who agree to that rule being the rule about male homosexuality, it means a man should not engage in sex with another man, even if really wanting to, just like a alcoholic shouldn't get drunk, even if wants to. A person shouldn't steal, even if extremely pressured internally to do so. In the Bible, it isn't the desire that is "sin," it is the physical act. For this, the rule of all desires to sin is to resist the desire and not commit the sin.
That does not equate to hating homosexuals anymore than opposition to fornication or adultery converts to hating those who do. The "rule" of the Bible is to "hate the sin, not the sinner" to Christians who have NOT mixed their belief with their personal view of secular morality.
