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It is clear that Paul condemned homosexual acts only in a list of other evils, as an example of what would happen if people forsook God for idols. The passages also suggest that he only condemned heterosexual men who abandoned their heterosexual relations for homosexual relations. He neither states, nor implies, any strictures on men who had always been homosexual.

The early Christian Fathers condemned homosexuality frequently, relating the fate of Sodom to its acceptance of homosexuality as normal. Again, a study of the Bible does not support this belief. Sodom was depraved; there was a lack of justice there (Isa. 1:10; 3:9), the people lied and were adulterers (Jer. 23:14); they were proud, slothful gluttons (Ezek. 16:49). Jesus said Sodom was wicked, but did not say why(Matt. 10:14-15; 11:23-4; Luke 10:12; 17:29). Even Jude (1:7) is only vaguely explicit, saying that Sodom was burned because the people ‘committed fornication and followed unnatural lusts’.