How can we say that homosexual behavior is wrong in light of such biblical examples as David and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth, and Jesus and John?
The Revisionist Answer
Examples from the Bible show that homosexual or lesbian couples existed throughout Bible history. It is unfair and un-Christian to forbid homosexual or gay unions because of distaste for homosexuality, where mutual respect and love prevail. The church is large enough to encompass all people, gay and straight.
The Biblical Answer
No evidence within the text of Scripture supports the claims that these or any other godly people of the Bible were part of a homosexual bond or gay marriage or union. The examples from the Old Testament show within the contexts of the stories themselves that these people were married and led heterosexual lives. Indeed, David’s sexual weaknesses lay in heterosexual lust. That these people had a high level of love for and devotion to another person has no sexual connotations. Jesus formed close friendships with men and women and had an especially close relationship with John and perhaps James, but these relationships are never presented as sexual. To the contrary, these persons all lived under a law that clearly forbade a homosexual relationship and set the death penalty for offenders. The Jews’ tradition articulated in the Mishnah and targums similarly would make it impossible to be gay and not to come under the condemnation of both the people and the interpreters of the law
