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I address this to no one in particular (the various comments of the individuals it is posted to caused me to want to write it, though).

To those who do not understand this basic concept, the Bible is divided into 2 parts. One part is the Old Testament, and it is the part that people of the Jewish faith believe in. The New Testament contains the Gospel (that word means "good news") of Christ, and people who follow after Jesus Christ and believe the Bible is the inspired word of God (II Thes. 3:16) mostly tend to believe, as is said in the 2nd chapter of Colossians that the old law, the old ordinances as it were, have been nailed to the cross of Christ and we no longer obey the specific commandments, although they are profitable for study, being as they were the revealed will of God for that time. A testament is a will, and so the testaments, old and new, are wills...the will of God. If a man has one will and later replaces it with a new will, people don't usually spend a lot of time fretting over the old will after the man's death, although they can certainly read it to see how he thought about things. The new will has been put into effect by the death of Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, who rose again and lives today.

I write all this in order to point out that the New Testament does address the subject of homosexuality in the first chapter of Romans, and if anyone has a problem with what is written there, their problem is with God, not with me.

I Corinthians 6: 9-10, furthermore, says the following: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, [10]: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. [11]: And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

For context it might help if I pointed out that I Corinthians was a letter written to the church (the local group of Christians) located at Corinth. I am not Roman Catholic. Having so said, I point to I Timothy 4:1-3, and wish for you all success in studying the scriptures, if you decide to do so (please do!).