Re: homo Anderson Cooper
On 'abomination'
According to Leviticus 18:22: 'You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.' But Daniel Karslake, director of For the Bible Tells Me So, says the word 'abomination' comes from the Hebrew word 'to'evah', meaning contrary to ritual. 'Leviticus was the holiness code, designed to further the tribe of the Jewish nation. Which is why it didn't look very kindly on men having sex with men, since sex was needed for procreation.' Nothing, in short, about divine judgement.
On Sodom and Gomorrah
This story, in Genesis 19, tells of the attempted gang rape of two 'angels', sent by God to see if any good people remained in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah after their inhabitants had revoked the important law of the welcoming of strangers - and of God's subsequent destruction of the cities. But the point about this story is that it's about punishment for inhospitality, a grave misdemeanour in Jewish society. Nothing about judgement over sexual orientation.
On 'unnatural relationships'
In Romans 1:26-27, speaking of idolators in the Greek and Roman world, Paul writes: 'The men also abandoned natural relationships with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.' Although this verse has often been used as a licence to gay-bash, it's likely to have been intended to focus Christians' minds on the importance of procreation.
What Jesus says about homosexuality
Nothing. That's right: not one thing.