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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Don't they know that homosexuality is normal?[/quote]
Can you point to where Jesus addressed homosexuality at all?[/quote]

[url]http://www.jdgreear.com/my_weblog/2011/01/is-homosexuality-a-sin-2.html[/url]

This explains things in more detail but I will summarize here:

1) Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but fulfill it.

The Mosaic law clearly stated that homosexuality was sinful, an abomination.

2) Positively, Jesus affirmed the Mosaic on marriage as between a man and a woman (Matthew 19:4)

[i]And He (Jesus) answered and said, “Have you not [b]read [/b]that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? [/i]

Where did Jesus read that? From the Old Testament (it was not called that then of course).  He read it from the Bible.

This right away sends a clear message:  marriage is between male and female.  That is the natural order of things the way God made it. 
By extension, we can say God made male and females for one another, not male for male or female for female.  All Jews in the time of Jesus knew
what their scriptures said concerning homosexuality. It was common knowledge at the time.  It really was not necessary for him to address the issue,
just as he did not have to come out and say "You know, it is still wrong to lie, cheat, steal, and murder."

It is really obvious there is nothing positive to say about homosexuality in the Bible but amazing that there are people whose brains are
so befuddled they cannot understand this.  It is not so much they do not understand but they do not want to understand, they want to be willfully ignorant of the truth about the purpose of human sexuality.

3) Jesus’ followers, to whom he committed the job of explicating his teaching (John 14:26), were more than clear on the issue when it became relevant to address.

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