Yes I'm quite aware of the rhetoric. You still use the bible as a textbook yet you fail to see that the historical Jesus and Paul are poles apart. In fact you do not differentiate between the Aramaic speaking Jesus with his mission to return Jews to God, and the Jesus of later tradition - the Greek translators and the evangelists. As far as the homosexuality debate goes, the Bible got it wrong. They didn't know everything. Jesus would have thought it was a sin, just as he thought eating shellfish was. Personally I don't see why homosexuals would want to marry in a church and belong to a religion that treats them as lesser beings, but I hope one day people will overcome their ancient prejudice and allow homosexuals to be married by the state in the same way I was.