Something has happened to the word “homosexual” in our time: the word has become polemicized; it has become a depersonalizing label, with consequent dehumanizing attitudes. “Homosexual” is taken out of the context of Paul’s list (idolaters, adulterers, thieves, greedy, drunks, slanderers, swindlers) and treated no longer in terms of an immoral behavior but as an immoral identity which is then attacked as an enemy. The term has been used so frequently in mean, dehumanizing ways, that it is difficult to use it in the spirit of Paul and Jesus in our culture.
Then use it for with its right intention. If Paul mean't homosexuals then it doesn't matter if the current culture has lambasted the term into nothingness. I do not agree with Peterson's conclusion here.
