Curious about different views on homosexuality

[Angrboda]

Actually, the bible doesn't outlaw homosexuality. It arguably says something about male homosexual acts, but it's not entirely clear. The bible says nothing about lesbianism whatsoever.

Romans 1 mentions it. It goes on to say that people who are homosexual (as well as the debaters, people who are disobedient towards their parents and the fornicators...) are worthy of death, though whether they should be actively murdered or they simply get what's coming to them does seem a bit ambiguous.

Thank you for the correction. I presume you mean Romans 1:18-32. If not, please provide the passage you have in mind. This passage says that God gave them over to unnatural passions as punishment for their rebellion against God. (There's that pairing of unnatural relations and infidelity and forsaking God again.) I don't know Greek, but what I can glean from the interlinear bible is that it mentions the women exchanging unnatural relations for natural and the males were punished as befit their crime. Again, I don't have the linguistic skills, but it doesn't seem to indicate the women were punished for their unnatural relations. Six of one, half a dozen of another. Anyway, thanks for the reference. Admittedly, it does sound like lesbianism was equally punishable.

Worthy of note, the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have this to say about the passage:

"Other Christians interpret the passage differently. They note that the persons involved in the orgy were former Christians, and were heterosexual. They are condemned because they went against their nature — their heterosexual orientation — and engaged in same-gender sexual behavior. By the same reasoning, lesbians and gays who went against their fundamental nature — their homosexual orientation — and engaged in opposite-gender sexual behavior would also be sinning."