Colby Townsend (someone who larps as a biblical scholar as well as a sincere person) responded to a meme on homosexuality and the language of "abomination" as follows which was shared with me:
For those who want an interaction with such revisionism vis-a-vis the bible and homosexuality and related topics, see the following from an actual expert:
Robert A.J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
Gagnon has a number of useful videos on this issue, such as:
The Bible and Homosexuality: Interpreting the Scriptures | Dr. Robert Gagnon
The following debate with another bleeding heart liberal like Townsend is also enlightening:
Homosexuality and the Church Debate: Dr. Robert Gagnon vs. Dr. Daniel Kirk
My interactions with Colby (fortunately) have been limited. He is an uber regressive leftist. Note the following from the Millennial Mormons facebook page where Colby reveals himself to be a nut who thinks there are multiple genders:
Why is this so serious? To quote from Gagnon on 1 Cor 6:9-11, a text Colby and his ilk disdain:
Paul was
clearly concerned that believers might return to former patterns of sinful
practices, including same-sex intercourse, practices that could lead
to loss of salvation. In Rom 6:19, he writes “just as you
(formerly) presented members as slaves to uncleanness and to lawlessness for
the purpose of (living in) lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves
to righteousness for the purpose of (living in) holiness.” The reference to
“uncleanness” identified with “sin” in 6:16-18, 20, 22-23 and shameful
practices in 6:21 and leading to “death” according to 6:16, 21, 23, is a clear
allusion to the range of sinful behaviors enumerated in 1:24-31, particularly
the description of same-sex intercourse in 1:24-27. The entire discussion of
6:1-8:17, including the section of the argument in 6:15-23, is aimed at
establishing that gentile believers who return to the pattern of
sinful activity that characterized their former pre-Christian existence will
not inherit eternal life (8:12-13). There would be no point to the discussion
unless there was a realistic possibility in Paul’s mind that gentile Christian
could once more succumb to and come under the sway of the same sinful impulse
operating in the “flesh” in manifold forms. (Robert A. J. Gagnon, The
Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics [Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 2001], 288; emphasis added)
