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What if I told you we need to re-think the way we’ve understood the discussion of homosexuality? What if our interpretations and translations of certain popular texts used to discriminate and label groups of people and their actions as sinful is actually not at all what the writers were referring to when writing? What if there was a bigger issue the ancients were aware of that needed changing in the world?
I understand your points of power and restoration. However, are you suggesting that there is no biblical condemnation regarding homosexuality? Thus it would be considered acceptable practice? This is an entirely new viewpoint that I have not heard.
I am arguing that homosexuality as we know it today is not what the Bible is referring to in those verses. Those verses are speaking to someone using force over another person (rape). Because of this the discussion needs to be very different. How do we live in healthy monogamous relationships with one another? How do we learn to help those being abused by others? Those are the qs Jesus was most interested in