Is it really necessary to spell out the bleeding obvious? I am not gay and I am not any better than anyone else. So, I'm not gay but I have other vices. Like we all do. We all have our own crosses and burdens to bear. Homosexuality is one of many things that we all need to repent of. Please stop this nonsense of attempting to justify this on skewed Biblical interpretation. The Bible is crystal clear on this.
I think it is fairly safe to say that most liberal Christians do not view the Bible as you do, BlackSabb. Most of us don't view it as "God's Instruction Book" for everyone for all time, as a 'morality encyclopedia' where we can find once-and-for-all answers to any subject. Many of us, if not most, would say that the Bible is a collection of writings by the ancient Jews and the early Christians that reflect, not how God sees things, but how they saw things in relationship to their understanding of God, their culture and times, and each other.
The Bible is, in your words, "crystal clear" on a number of things that most people today would not accept as relevant, timeless truth. Most of us enjoy the freedom to eat shellfish or pork, going against what the ancient Jews considered to be God's word. We also have no problems wearing clothes made of blends or planting two or more different kinds of crops in one field, again, going against what the Jews believed to be the word of the Lord.
Likewise, most of us would consider slavery to be, if not evil, at least wrong, clearly going against what Paul taught about slaves being obedient to their masters. And even in the most conservative of Christian churches where women are not allowed to preach (because these churches feel that God spoke through the apostle Paul to forbid it), they don't truly follow Paul's command that women should not speak in church, that they should be silent. These churches allow their women to sing, to teach Sunday School, to pray, to speak in tongues, etc.
The bottom line is, if we are going to prohibit something that either the Old Testament or the New Testament prohibits (or, on the positive side, to continue something found there), we need to ask why we are doing so. Simply quoting the Bible as the authoritative source is ludicrous and, in by-passing our God-given reason, does more damage than anything else. Furthermore, such "proof-texting" nullifies the Spirit of God. If the apostle Paul had stayed with "the word of the Lord" that was "crystal clear" about the necessity of God's people being circumcised or keeping the Law, it's doubtful that very many Gentiles would have come into the church.
The cry of the conservative is, "God has spoken once and for all and it is found only in the Bible."
Liberals, in contrast, often say, "God is still speaking. There is more truth to be revealed, known, and lived out. The Spirit continues to lead us into that truth."
What is "bleeding obvious" is that Jesus never once condemned homosexuality. Not once.
Take your stand based on the Old Testament or the writings of a slavery-supporting, misogynistic ("it is good for a man not to touch a woman") disciple-wanna-be if you want, but I, for one, follow Jesus, not Moses or Paul. I have the freedom to say that Moses and Paul were just plain wrong about some things.
I'm deep in the poo now, aren't I?