Well @Michael G, I’ve been a pastor probably longer than you (Started in 1975 and serving continuously — you do the math.) And I’ve never had a pastor who knows me and disagrees with my stand on LGBTQ tell me that I was operating in ignorance. Never. I’ve read the bible cover to cover more times than I can count. For decades I’ve engaged Scripture daily — mostly twice daily. And studied it extensively for preaching and my own interest. And I’ve studied the texts that you claim speak clearly about “homosexuality” more than any pastor I personally know, and I know hundreds of pastors. You don’t seem to know that “homosexuality” [that there are a certain percentage of people who prefer sexual intimacy with members of their own gender to members of the opposite gender] is unknown in the period that the Scriptures were written. Just as people during that time din’t now the earth rotated around the sun and wasn’t literally built on “pillars.” You don’t seem to know that the translation you sited is contested by many Scripture scholars, including those who are conservative as i assume you are. That Luther’s translation of the two greek terms in 1 Cor 6 “malakos” had nothing to do with what we know as modern day “homosexuality” — his terms were “effeminate” and “abusers” or something of the sort, you can look it up. There is a similar absence of language that refers to the gay people we know today, used by the NIV you cite in earlier transalations. They did an earlier translation that used the term “homosexual offenders” which was withdrawn because so many people know that “homosexuality” was not a concept in the ancient world. You may not know the Greek word “arsenokotai” is only used by St. Paul, so there is legitimate debate about what it actually refers to (See Gordon Fee, a very conservative scholar on this. Do you even know there are two greek terms behind the translation in 1 Cor. 6? Are you aware that in that period many men penetrated other men in order to show dominance over them, as happens in prisons today? Are you familiar with the Greco-Roman practice of pederasty that would have been part of Paul’s Roman world? Just remember my (young?) fellow pastor: “knowledge puffs of, but love builds up” Do your homework before you use texts of sacred Scriptrue in violation of Paul’s rule “love does no harm to the neighbor.” Go and see why Jesus and Paul and JAmes all said various versions of “Love your neighbor as yourself: for this is the Law and the Prophets [aka the Bible they knew].