Is homosexuality a sin?

I discovered this conversation on another website. I found it quite interesting. I have just put a bit of it here for you.

IST QUOTE>>>To put one sin above another and to not offer those who need Jesus the most The chance to come to know the Lord because of our blind hatred is wrong<

REPLY -It seems to me there is more *hatred or personal intolerance toward those who dare answer question, "Is homosexuality sin" with an clear yes, than there is in substantiating the answer to that question. That tract was written after i found page after page of pro homosexual arguments on the web, misusing the Bible. And far from excluding those that do such things from salvation, as the message makes clear, especially in it's full page (at http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org), it is showing those that contend otherwise that, indeed, homosexuality is sin, and so it must be admitted as such, with a desire for deliverance, in order to be saved.
Yet, as "such were some of you" (1Cor. 6:9-11) makes clear, homosexuality need not necessarily equal reprobation. My lesbian neighbor turned to Christ and became born again, and is now serving the Lord. Praise the Lord. And i would help a homosexual change his tire just as i would a straight person. But when someone insists that homosexuality is normal, and even preferable (and i live in Massachusetts, where it is foisted upon us), than we are compelled to show it's destructiveness, just as we would if heroin use was being pushed and justified [the homosexual movement would not attract as much (it is still little) "heat" as it does (much of which they misconstrue as hate in order to gain symphathy), if they were not agressively pushing affirmation of their practices.] And we be the salt of the earth, i think something must be said of a practice that is primarily (60 -80%) responsible for over 500,000 American deaths from AIDS (if singing hymns to Jesus was linked to so many diseases + deaths i thinks the Gov. would not let the first amendment stop them from outlawing it!). So we substantiate that homo-sexuality is sin and destructive, esp. for those who contend otherwise, and point them to Christ who died for us all; for indeed, "all have sinned." On that level, the degree of sinfulness need not make any difference. Drowning a 100 yards off shore is just as deadly as 1000 yards. They both are helpless and both need salvation. But the more resistant to conviction one becomes, and insistent on justifying his sins, then the harder it becomes for them to be saved."
*(I have corrected spelling mistake in the original document)