I apologize for not being as swift to respond to your questions. As stated, I was referring specifically to verses 26 and 27. Here is one link I read that purports to state that Justin Martyr and Aristides:
gaychristian101.com/Romans-And-Shrine-Prostitution.html and another from the same site:
gaychristian101.com/Questions.html
To be honest, I have no idea what the guy is talking about. If anyone wants try to figure it out and illuminate me, please do.
I’ve tried unsuccessfully to look for some evidence that somewhere someone has now decided that when the Bible describes homosexual activity it actually means adultery. The person who said this never quoted any passages but I presume she was referring to Romans 1:26-27. In retrospect, I wish I would’ve challenged her more on that. When the Biblical writers mention adultery, they are usually pretty clear about it.
From your first link:
Justin Martyr, First Apology, 27.
This is what chapter 27 says:
CHAPTER XXVII – GUILT OF EXPOSING CHILDREN.
But as for us, we have been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of wicked men; and this we have been taught lest we should do any one an injury, and lest we should sin against God, first, because we see that almost all so exposed (not only the girls, but also the males) are brought up to prostitution. And as the ancients are said to have reared herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep, or grazing horses, so now we see you rear children only for this shameful use; and for this pollution a multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable iniquities, are found in every nation. And you receive the hire of these, and duty and taxes from them, whom you ought to exterminate from your realm. And any one who uses such persons, besides the godless and infamous and impure intercourse, may possibly be having intercourse with his own child, or relative, or brother. And there are some who prostitute even their own children and wives, and some are openly mutilated for the purpose of sodomy; and they refer these mysteries to the mother of the gods, and along with each of those whom you esteem gods there is painted a serpent, a great symbol and mystery. Indeed, the things which you do openly and with applause, as if the divine light were overturned and extinguished, these you lay to our charge; which, in truth, does no harm to us who shrink from doing any such things, but only to those who do them and bear false witness against us.
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(St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, Homily III, written in AD 391)
Homily 3 does not deal with Romans 1:26-27. Homily 4 does.
newadvent.org/fathers/210204.htm
It seems to be the wicked trying to justify their wickedness.
