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Literally and even figuratively speaking, here as a true scholar of the Bible and as one who has the New Testment in Greek, and as one who has had a college course in "Interpreting the Bible" (aka Biblical Hermeneutics), homosexuality as we know it in modern times is not even addressed in the New Testament's books at all.  

In fact, as it has been repeated over and over, the only kind of sexual activity that the Bible mentions in regard to the residents of Sodom was with prostitutes of the opposite sex. Or, figuratively speaking, they prostituted themselves with having illicit sexual activity with the opposite sex.  

The Greek word "arsenokoitai" translated as "homosexual" in some English translations of the Bible has never been found written in any Greek document or piece of literature outside of what the Apostle Paul wrote. Oh, people guess what it means; which is what the modern English translators literally did. Since the suffix (end of the word) is "ai," as a noun that means that the word is feminine plural. Yes, that it means more than one woman did it. And since "arseno" is Greek for "male" individuals and "koit" is Greek for "bed" (literally), one would think that it means "women who take a male to bed with them." The KJV has that word translated as "abusers of themselves with mankind,' and "abusers of mankind." Now what did they mean by those translations? No one knows today at all.  

In one of those places where Paul used "arsenokoitai," he used the Greek word "malakoi." Now the KJV translators translated that word as "effeminate." Well, in 16th and 17th Century England, "effeminate" was a figure of speech used for those who were living with royalty and did not have to work for a living and lived a soft/lazy, aka effeminate lifestyle" which had no connection with sexual activity. 

Well, Jesus used the word "malakoi" to describe the kind of "soft" or "fine as velvet" clothing worn by those who lived in kings' palaces.