A man leaves his father and mother, and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. –Genesis 2:24

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The Puritan view of romantic heterosexual marriage is expressed in Leland Ryken’s Worldly Saints (ch. 3) and William Gouge’s Building a Godly Home: A Holy Vision for Family Life.

On homosexuality as a sexual deviation according to the old school of psychiatry (DSM-I 320.6), see Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse, Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church’s Moral Debate (InterVarsity Press, 2000), chs. 3-5; and on the Puritans’ rejection of homosexuality, and their frequent use of the word “Sodomite,” see Alan Bray’s Homosexuality in Renaissance England.

If a person were to exhume the remains of John Wesley, you’d almost expect to find them in a tangled mess, because of all the rolling over in his grave, due to gay marriage in the United Methodist Church.

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SHOULD WE BE NON-JUDGMENTAL ABOUT ABOMINATIONS?
PROBABLY NOT.

Greasy grace. Sloppy agape. Non-judgmental. I understand that we Christians need to let love be the main theme of our attitude. But when God calls something an “abomination,” that means he hates it. If we are following his Word, it means that we should also hate what God hates. Not many things are called an “abomination” in the KJV Word of God. Eating roadkill I think is a prudent thing to avoid, even though all foods are generally considered clean now. It was an abomination to eat roadkill. GAY SEX IS AN ABOMINATION. Idols are an abomination. CROSS-DRESSING IS AN ABOMINATION. Prostitution is an abomination. Easy attitudes about divorce and remarriage are an abomination. –Leviticus 11:11; 18:22; Deuteronomy 7:25; 22:5; 23:18; 24:4