As always, I'm going to give the scriptural perspective and it will likely sound like I'm crazier than my moon hoax posts, but again, I stick to the truth, and it is a truth that I've studied in depth. (Here's hoping that certain layperson doesn't come ankle biting again)
Okay, this is going to shock ya. What Paul wrote on this was not that it is some extreme sin that will burn in the deepest hell - far from it. What Paul wrote was very much a reasonable response to the condition the earth was in... and that was, it was by and large given over to homosexuality, it was prevalent in the Greek Empire and also the Roman Empire. So, what Paul was saying when he said men had given up the proper use of the woman and gone over to lusting after their own sex... that was not a recognition of the sin of homosexuality as it is commonly read to be. These are the kinds of areas where ministers really do have an advantage, because we study the word, we try to read the letters in context to the mindset of the author and his times. What Paul was saying was civilization had gone down this road. This is how the rulers of the world lived, mankind had gone to homosexuality as the culture of government... from way back in time, by the time Paul lived his life, it was an old... many centuries old... reality, that everyone knew was just the way it was. So what paul was saying was cutting new ground... and this is not the only place he did this; when the jews said Paul turned the world upside down, it was because of ideas like this. So Paul laid out a very rigorous disciplined sexual course for Christians, the like of which, the world had never seen. It wasn't a pattern for the world to follow, nor was it attempting to define sin for the world, it was a path for the disciples of Christ.
Now, today, I will say this. Your entire life in the flesh, is inherited from Adam. The Adamic nature will not inherit the kingdom of God. You must be born again. People think that if they live good lives they will go to heaven, as if the New Testament says any such thing: it doesn't. The New Testament says that the kingdom of God suffereth violence and all men press into it; in other words: seize the day, people: here's your chance to walk right through the spiritual portal ... TODAY ... the very same germ of anointing that was placed in Mary can be placed in you, call on Jesus name, receive that holy spirit, and a new life will be planted in you from on high ... which will grow into a whole new world to enter and live in ... in this life; not the next. The New Testament is a covenant to be lived in this lifetime; the promise of eternal life is the promise of the holy spirit... available TODAY.
You can now return to the religious mindset that will argue the virtues or horrors of homosexuality and how it will affect your chances of going to heaven or hell when you die... and they will pretend that all that nonsense is written in the New Testament. No evangelical minister worth his salt will waste two seconds on that nonsense, it is not the gospel, neither was it the intention of Paul's writing.
2Peter 3:
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.