Qld LNP leader votes yes for same-sex marriage misuses the Bible to justify sin

Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has voted in favour of same-sex marriage but said it was a difficult decision. The LNP leader told reporters in Brisbane on Sunday he had filled out his postal survey earlier that morning, after a lot of "interesting" discussions with his wife and three teenage children.

"This has been really hard for me," he said. "I come from a traditional marriage, a traditional background." 

Mr Nicholls said ultimately it was St Paul's letter to The Corinthians, in the bible, which swayed him in favour of marriage equality.

How is this possible when Romans 1 condemns the sin of homosexuality? How does Mr Nicholls thinks 1 Corinthians 13:13 supports homosexual marriage?

Nicholls was quoting the Bible "He says faith, hope, love and the greatest of these is love," he said. "And on that basis I voted yes."

So, on that basis - "greatest of these is love" - he voted for homosexual marriage. But does the Bible support this application? 

First the same Apostle Paul who wrote Corinthains also wrote Romans 1:21-28. 

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

So, it is very clear that the Apostle Paul author of 1 Corinthians 13 - is NOT talking about homosexual love, which he has clearly condemned in Romans 1. He is talking about another kind of love.  

What is Paul speaking about when he says " love is the greatest"?

Regarding 1 Corinthians 13:13 the context is as follows: glossolalia (speaking in tongues) may be popular, prophecy desirable, but the real jewels in the crown are these three virtues; what is more, love triumphs over faith alone (13:2) and, presumably, hope.

So, the objects of faith and hope will be fulfilled and perfectly realized in heaven, but love, the God-like virtue, 'agape love' is everlasting (1 John 4:8). Heaven will be the place for the expression of nothing but perfect love toward God and each other. 

Agape God-like love - is everlasting eternal - is not homosexual disordered love which is not even 'eros' sexual love - it is really disordered lust. 

Even if Nicholls tried to apply to apply love to homosexual marriage 1 Corinthians 13:6 says love does not delight in evil. Romans 1:24 uses homosexuality first as an example of sinful desires. The following verses clearly denounce the lifestyle chice. 

1 Corinthians 13:6 - Love never takes satisfaction from sin, whether our own sin or that of others. Doing wrong things is bad enough in itself; bragging about them makes the sins even worse. To rejoice in unrighteousness is to justify it. It is making wrong appear to be fight. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil,” Isaiah warns, “who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isa. 5:20). That is turning God’s truth upside down. Is this not what Mr. Nicholls has done in his argument?

Among the most popular magazines, books, and TV programs are those that glorify sin, that literally rejoice in unrighteousness. More and more explicitly they declare that anything goes and that every person sets his own standards of right and wrong. What is right is doing what you want. I Corinthians 13:13 is not a justification for the sin of homosexuality.

Romans 1:24 says -God also gave them up. This is a judicial term in Gr., used for handing over a prisoner to his sentence. When men consistently abandon God, He will abandon them (Judg. 10:13; 2 Chr. 15:2; 24:20; Ps. 81:11, 12; Hos. 4:17; Matt. 15:14; Acts 7:38–42; 14:16). 

He accomplishes this 1) indirectly and immediately, by removing His restraint and allowing their sin to run its inevitable course, and 

2) directly and eventually, by specific acts of divine judgment and punishment. uncleanness. A general term often used of decaying matter, like the contents of a grave. It speaks here of sexual immorality (2 Cor. 12:21; cf. Gal. 5:19–23; Eph. 5:3; 1 Thess. 4:7), which begins in the heart and moves to the shame of the body.

Romans 1:26 God gave them up. Identified in vv. 26, 27 as homosexuality, a sin roundly condemned in Scripture (Gen. 19; Lev. 18:22; 1 Cor. 6:9–11; cf. Gal. 5:19–21; Eph. 5:3–5; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10; Jude 7). women. Rather than the normal Gr. term for women, this is a general word for female. Paul mentions women first to show the extent of debauchery under the wrath of abandonment, because in most cultures women are the last to be affected by moral collapse.