I have a question, Why have Christians made Homosexuality the cardinal sin?

I have been thinking about this for a while so I am going to lay down my thoughts. First let me put the verses on the table that talk about Homosexuality and how it is wrong.

Lev. 18:22 , “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”(NASB)

Lev. 20:13, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them.”(NASB)

1 Cor. 6:9-10, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”(NASB)

Rom. 1:26-28, “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.”(NASB)

So the bible clearly says Homosexuality is immoral but it does not say it is the worst sin out there I am gonna break down the versus as I read them.

let me start with Leviticus 18:3 as I read this versus it speaks to me that the act of lying with another man is the abomination and not the persons involved. Next Leviticus 20:13 once again I read it as the act is the abomination and the people are not, but it does go on to talk about the punishment of death. In that culture and time thats what they did when you committed certain sin, you would be stoned to death, but if you read the story of Jesus talking about throwing the first stone in John 8:1-11, he makes all sins equal here. So if you are going look at the punishment for the act of homosexuality, all sin are equal and we all are sinners so we all deserve to be killed if you are looking at it from the old testament view. But if you look at this verses from a new testament view point that they are responsible for there own sin and that they could have spiritual death… Not to say they cant be happy and have a good life to say that is to be arrogant and wrong. But i am willing to say that they wont be able to experience true joy that comes from the Father God. The next verse brings me back to the point i made earlier about all sin being equal 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 speaks of homosexual acts but groups them along with all sexual immorality, stealing and so on. To say that being gay is the cardinal is to be wrong. finally Romans 1:26-27 does not make homosexuality the cardinal sin but i get the feeling that it is like all other sins.

So this is just a piece of my thoughts on this topic. so what i am saying in this blog is that we should deal with homosexuality like we do all sins and not like some sorta super sin, we need to love people no matter there issue and show the truth of Jesus(John 14:6, John 3:16). And if you are going to talk with a homosexual about God make sure they first believe in him, That Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, focus on their salvation and let God worry about their sin issues.

If you are Christian and dealing with homosexuality checkout this link, William Lane Craig has some good things to say to you.

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6231