DeYoung has written a whole, short, book on what the Bible says about homosexuality. Been several years since I read it, but I recall it being petty good. It’s generally “stand and deliver” but I was a lot more “nuanced” back when I read it - which was pretty much as soon as it came out.
He addresses the ideas of sexual orientation and same sex attraction in an appendix. He doesn’t draw any hard lines. He states
“More work needs to be done to help Christians think through the issue of same-sex attraction in a way that is biblically faithful, pastorally sensitive, and culturally conversant.”
And then he discusses the issue from those three perspectives.
Overall he calls homosexual desire disordered and sinful if it becomes lust. So he doesn’t limit sin to the physical act of sodomy. He does leave room for a man to appreciate another man’s beauty in much the same way that a man can recognize his sister is beautiful without that being sexual.
Later her states:
“However we parse out these terms (my edit: meaning “orientation” and “gay”) —and we cannot avoid parsing terms (new terms are probably needed too)…”
Troubling to say we need new terms when the Bible already has terms.
I think his book really cuts at side A gay “Christians” and is more of a sibling block than help for side b/Revoicers. It could be stronger but it was written in a different era (just four years ago, but the times they are a-changin).
It’s blurbed by Moore (Russell), Butterfield, Wesley Hill, JD Greear, Nancy Demoss, Carson, Gagnon, Yuan, Gregory Koukl and Marvin Olasky. For whatever that’s worth. Everyone blurbs each other’s books so they will blurb back, etc, etc. It’s a crazy world.