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Several years ago the mayor of San Francisco signed a number of marriage licenses granting homosexual partners the right to legally get married. The event sparked a huge controversy nation wide. People around the country saw and took the opportunity to express their personal views on the topic of “Gay marriage” while the rest of the country watched. I was one of the watchers. One evening I saw a late night special that centered on the event and the controversy that surrounded it. A particular scene caught my attention. On one side of the street was a female couple who were walking hand in hand down the steps of the court house, they had obviously just been married, and on the other side of the street was a group of protesters. Stretched between several of the protesters was a large banner that read, “Homosexuality is a sin”. I had attended a type of seminary and had been heavily involved in a Christian ministry for many years. I could not remember ever reading a list of sins in the Bible that included homosexuality. So when I saw this banner I had to ask myself “Where did these people get this information?” I had read Levitical law and I had read the references to Homosexuality that are written in the New Testament book of Romans and I was familiar with the record of the doomed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, none of these records call Homosexuality a “sin”. Levitical law calls it an “abomination” but in the same section it calls adultery “wickedness” it continues to say that to lay with your neighbors wife “defiles” you. Yet I see no banners outside of divorce courts. It is actually more common to hear adultery referred to as an “indiscretion”. So if this section of the Bible is where the information about homosexuality was obtained; why is it that these same self-righteous people are not standing outside of their local divorce court with a banner that reads, “Adultery is a sin”? They are obviously very concerned about who someone else is sleeping with, why is it that they were not taking every opportunity to correct sinful behavior? All of these musings brought me back to the question “Is homosexuality a sin?”