I decided to look up the passage from Corinthians. It does not mention homosexuals, only “sexual perverts”.This was the KJV, so I don’t know what version your Bible is ZEB. I can’t resist quoting a bumper sticker I see way too often around here: “If it’s not King James, it’s NOT the Bible!”. I’m just screwing with ya ZEB 
But if the KJV is right, what’s a sexual pervert? I don’t consider gays (in general) to be perverts. Screwing a dead horse while your dog watches and licks himself is probably perverted, though. Maybe.
Most of the problem seems to be with the sex act (the sin) rather than just the existence of gays. Would a celibate homosexual go to heaven?
Here’s an article about lesbian parents:
Teenagers raised by lesbian mothers show no developmental differences compared to those brought up by heterosexual parents, according to the first large national study in the US.
Previous research has focused mainly on younger children and found no significant disparities in child welfare between same-sex and heterosexual families.
But few studies have been done on adolescents, who some researchers think may be more prone to - or conscious of - discrimination against their families. Others have speculated whether a teens’ own sexuality is affected by that of their parents.
“There’s been this debate about whether being raised by single-sex couples is good or bad for children,” says Stephen Russell, a sociologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, US. “We would call into question suggestions that growing up with single-sex parents is somehow problematic.”
12,000 interviews
Russell and colleagues Charlotte Patterson and Jennifer Wainright at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, came to this conclusion after sifting through interviews from 1995 with about 12,000 US teenagers and their families. The teens were part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest and most comprehensive study of the age group in the US.
“This is the best available evidence to date about how adolescent children fare in families with single-sex parents,” Russell told New Scientist.
The researchers found 44 teens being raised by two women in a “marriage-like” relationship. Only six teens reported living with two gay men, so male single-sex families were excluded from the study.
Each teen studied was matched with a counterpart from a heterosexual family, who shared the same sex, age, ethnicity, adoption status and family income, among other factors.
Same-sex attractions
The researchers found no differences between the two groups in terms of depression, anxiety, self-esteem and school grades. Exactly the same proportion of both groups also reported having had sex (34%).
But while a previous study suggested children of gay parents were more likely to consider homosexual relationships, this study was unable to provide such information because so few teens reported same-sex attractions and romances.
The single most important predictor of the teens’ well being, the study showed, was their relationship with parents - regardless of family type. ?What’s really important is the quality of the relationship," Russell told New Scientist.
As a result, the authors write that their findings “provide no justification for limitations on child custody or visitation by lesbian mothers” and “do not support the idea that lesbian and gay adults are less likely than others to provide good adoptive or foster homes”.
Russell says future studies could see how the same group of teens fared in young adulthood.
Journal reference: Child Development (vol 75, p 1886)
As for abstinence only education, here’s an excerpt from a NewScientist article:
But does the abstinence approach work? Do teenagers - a group not renowned for their propensity to do what they are told - take any notice when adults tell them not to have sex?
Proponents of abstinence claim research supports their strategy. But the vast majority of studies that have been done in this area have been small, short-term evaluations without control groups. “There have only been three well-designed trials where an ‘intervention’ group is compared with a control group and participants are tracked over time,” says Kirby.
One of these, published in 1997, looked at a five-session abstinence-only initiative in California. The trial tracked 10,600 teenagers for 17 months (Family Planning Perspectives, vol 29, p 100). The researchers found it had no impact on the sexual behaviour or pregnancy rates of teenagers. The other two studies had similar results. “None of them show that any abstinence-only programmes had any impact on behaviour,” says Kirby.
Although not a controlled trial, one of the largest studies of the effect of abstinence pledges tracked the sex lives of 12,000 US teenagers aged between 12 and 18 (American Journal of Sociology, vol 106, p 859). A group led by Peter Bearman, a sociologist at Columbia University in New York, investigated whether taking a virginity pledge affected the age when people first had sex. It did, with an average delay of 18 months. The pledgers also got married earlier and had fewer partners overall.
But when Bearman went back six years later and looked at the STD rates in the same people, now aged between 18 and 24, he was in for a surprise. In research presented at the National STD conference in Philadelphia last year, he found that though pledgers had had fewer sexual partners than non-pledgers, they were just as likely to have had an STD. And the reason? “Pledgers use condoms less,” says Bearman. “It’s difficult to simultaneously imagine not intending to have sex and being contraceptively prepared.”
Here lies the problem that many have with the idea of abstinence-only education. While it may work for those kids who live up to the ideal, those who don’t are left without the knowledge to protect themselves when they do have sex. “It’s not rocket science,” says Bearman.
