Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion

[Angrboda]

I was responding to your original argument that people who engage in homosexual acts are clearly, by implication, being maligned and penalized for being homosexuals.  In that context, if someone is maligned for the act, regardless of whether they have the sexual desires of someone with a homosexual sexual orientation, then your claim that the punishment of the act is an implied condemnation of homosexually oriented persons fails.  Not just any desire will do.

And I've already given you alternative guesses.  My guesses don't align with yours in every instance so the guesswork is not very telling.

 Actually I don't think it  fails because as I have said it's a clear case  that this culture condemns homosexuality as an act, so there is every reason that it's implied that expressed desires  or willingness to engage in the act due to other related desires would also be condemned  so far I don't see how any of your alternatives get around this. Just being honest with you here.

You missed my addendum pointing out that it is not the views of the culture that matter, but God's views, of which these codes are an expression.

Regardless, it's a moot point as your initial comment, quoted below, clearly identifies "homosexual desires," which are commonly defined as sexual desires for persons of the same sex. If I want to have sex because I'm afraid of what my peers will think of me if I don't, or because someone is holding a gun to my head -- any other kind of desire besides a sexual desire is not going to count.

And I'm pretty sure by implication it also condemns the driver of those acts homosexual desires which would be an attribute of a person

Now, I don't particularly care one way or the other as my primary point was that Sheldon was misrepresenting what the bible says about same-sex sexual acts.