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Not to belabor the point, but in fact he did take certain pains to compare the two when he placed "murder" first in his list of sins following reference (via third person impersonal pronoun "it") to homosexuality.He didn't take pains to compare it to murder...??
As addressed earlier, homosexuality is addressed in the Old & New Testament in numerous places.
This teacher is not advocating violence.
Ergo, murder was the first thing that sprang to his mind.
The problem with interpreting Scripture is that it contradicts itself every little whipstitch, or at least often enough to allow the reader to base his or her beliefs on selected portions of same. I choose to get the general gist of JC's message - Love one another even as I have loved you - and go from there.