Campbell argues that Romans, much like Galatians and 2 Cor. 10-13 (Paul’s ‘tearful letter’) is directed against a specific false teacher and that it is the false teacher’s perspective which is being quoted in 1:18-32, a perspective which Paul will repudiate in chapters 2-4. In this case the phrase ‘wrath of God’ is the false teacher’s perspective. It is well known that Romans 1:18-32 reflects the kind of Jewish anti-Gentile rhetoric one finds e.g., in The Wisdom of Solomon 12-14.

Paul’s use of the rhetorical strategy of prosopopoia whereby an opponent’s view is cited and then debated, according to Campbell (and Ben Witherington III as well) would have been understood by the hearers of this epistle inasmuch as Paul always sent readers of his letters and they would know where and when to change the ‘tone of voice’ when reading the letter aloud. This third view then understands the phrase ‘wrath of God’ to be antithetical to the gospel, but part of the false teacher’s position. Following on this, all the subsequent uses of the word wrath could, if part of the rhetorical strategy, be understood as the calamity of social breakdown. The eschatological character of the ‘wrath’ seen in societal collapse prior to the advent of ‘The Day of the Lord’ became in time itself God’s eschatological wrath. Campbell’s reading of Romans is one way to ameliorate this type of reading.

Either way, we better not be dogmatic about it because I am no scholar and from the looks of it, neither are you. Better to tread lightly on matters that we may not fully understand.

Blessings.

Well, there are only six, and they focus on certain acts, not homosexuality itself. No, I’ve read your clobber passages. They, and those that believe them to be a condemnation of homosexuality drove me to attempt suicide, because I couldn’t be straight or cis no matter how hard I prayed, and how hard I tried. My first attempt was when I was about 11.

“You know perfectly well that Christians are now being persecuted in the US and Europe
for opposing militant homosexuality.”

What’s your predominant thought when you walk out of your house to go somewhere? Mine is knowing full well that I might be attacked or murdered for merely existing. What do you do when you walk into a building? Any building? I’m already looking for a quick exit in case things get crazy. I also have a plan in place for my roommates and their kids. If things go crazy, they are to go, just leave. Go home. Because I don’t want them hurt. Do you have 911 on speed dial? I do. You probably think I’m kidding. I’m not.

Persecution? You don’t know what that is, Jack.

Go look up how much risk there is for Christians being murdered by those of other religious faiths, or non religious people. . Now think about the following facts and statistics easily verifiable.

Although social acceptance for transgender people is growing, parents
continue to abandon youth with gender-identity issues when their
children need them most, advocates say.

49 per cent of transgender people attempt suicide.

Transgender youth account for 18 per cent of homeless people in cities such as
Chicago, but researchers estimate fewer than 1 in 1,000 people is transgender.

1 in 12 transgender people in America is murdered.

Transgender youth whose parents pressure them to conform to their anatomical sex
report higher levels of depression, illegal drug use, suicide attempts and unsafe sex than peers who receive little or no pressure from parents.

Washington, D.C. – Hate crimes statistics for 2010 are out from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The good news is that, overall, the numbers of reported hate crimes last year held steady. The FBI report, accessible here, documents 6,624 single-bias incidents, which range from acts of vandalism to cold blooded murder. Four more incidents encompassed multiple-biases, making for a grand total of 6,628 incidents reflecting 7,699 offenses as reported voluntarily by law enforcement agencies around the nation. These data represent a serious undercount of the actual number of hate crimes perpetrated against Americans during the last year, since 1) reportage by local law enforcement is sheerly voluntary with no funding from the federal government to aid small jurisdictions to report, and 2) local law enforcement officials are often loathe to classify an incident as a hate crime because of a variety of reasons, such as how the community regards social groups and racial/sexual minorities.

Behind the statistics are the stories of flesh-and-blood victims and their families, and the news here is disturbing. 1,528 victims were targeted because of animus against sexual orientation. Of these, 57.3 percent of victims were gay males, and 11.9 percent were lesbians. The numbers of violent attacks against transgender people are fragmentary at this point, since statistics of this particularly vulnerable group have only been recorded by the FBI since the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law by President Obama in October 2009. But the news of brutalities against transgender people, especially transgender women of color, is alarming. GLAAD reports that, of the people murdered for sexual orientation and gender identity and expression bias, 70 percent were persons of color, and 44 percent were transgender women [NCAVP figures]. Though suicides of LGBTQ teens due to homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools have captured the headlines repeatedly since 2010 began, no separate FBI statistical category yet exists for the collection of these data.

In the recent Civil Rights Conference on Hate Crimes at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez declared in his keynote address, “We are experiencing a headwind of hatred and intolerance in the United States.” FBI Special Agents appealed to local law enforcement, U.S. Attorney officials, and leaders from the North Texas LGBTQ community to co-operate in the reporting of hate crimes, underlining the difficulty feds are experiencing amassing accurate data. In its 2010 report, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), widely held to offer more accurate statistics on anti-LGBT hate crimes than the FBI, noted a 13 percent rise in homophobic and transphobic violence from 2009 to 2010, and a 23 percent rise in the murders of LGBTQ people.

Media coverage of these outrages has been poor. The average American does not believe that anyone has been killed for being gay since the murder of Matthew Shepard. After the flurry of interest waned following Shepard’s murder in 1998, the killings of LGBT people have been buried in the back pages of newspapers or not reported at all in the national press.

The regional or local reporting that is done in the mainstream media often minimizes hate crimes by seeking to blame the victims for the evil that befell them. When victims are non-white, female, disabled, no longer young and attractive, or transgender, thier stories are downplayed even more.

Take for example a recent Newsweek cover story which on the surface seems open to reporting about the anti-gay hate crime that claimed the life of Lawrence “Larry” King. The article, however, has come under scrutiny for having used biased language, anti-gay catch phrases, stereotypical descriptions, and one-sided reporting to characterize the victim’s own role in the hate crime that claimed his life.

Even coverage by the LGBT press appears occasional, spotty, and selective. Yet the brutality continues apace in such a way that whole regional populations of LGBT people are being terrorized while national press turns a blind eye and deaf ear, helping to construct a new closet of fear in America.

“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For
whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,
cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” John 4:20

pornography (tied to lust)

“You have heard that it was said,’You shall not commit adultery; but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Matthew 5:27–28

corporate abuse and fraud (tied to gred)

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:13-21

You are right that illicit drug use/abuse, and the sale of such are not mentioned in the bible. However, we are supposed to respect our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit.

“paedophelia”

…”And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; but
whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble,
it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his
neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6