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I am glad you attempt to make a defense of the Biblical injunctions against homosexual relations, but it is rather superficial, and the analogy is poor. More serious is your support of homosexual civil unions. While the judicial penalties of Lv. 20 might require the theocratic government of Israel to fully implement them, on the other hand a Christian should not support civil rights for any moral wrong, and doing so is inconsistent with your belief that homoeroticism is still sin =. Such a stand also supports the State becoming the minister of iniquity, rather than "the minister of God to thee for good", (Rm. 14:4) "sent by Him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well." (1Pet. 2:14)

Your argumentation against homosex, and homomarriage in particular, must begin the with the creation of the women for the man, as his uniquely compatible and complementary "helpmeet," and which union is the only one which God sanctions, and explicitly so, which is the "what" of what God joined together, and which Jesus also only affirmed. Nor is it tenable to suppose that any degree of eroticism is allowed btwn same genders, anymore than btwn close kin or animals. By condemning the end of illicit sexual unions on the "bed of love", the Bible forbids any and all eroticism which precedes it. The passionate apostle Paul kept his body under submission - better than me i am sure.  

As far as homoromanticism is involved, while the Bible rarely makes motive an issue in forbidding sexual acts, again, it does speak against the genesis of illicit acts, (Mk. 7:21-23) and certainly "inordinate affection" can apply to homosexual feelings which need to be crucified, and thoughts which must brought into submission to Christ, just as much as others must in other areas.  

Finally see here for a more thorough work on this subject, by God's great grace, by an unworthy servant. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html