You seem like you interpret the Bible pretty traditionally, without interpretive liberties. How do you reconcile being LGBT affirming with Scripture and church tradition? I am LGBT affirming by the way, and not trying to criticize you.
I still view the Bible as God’s Word and affirm the principle of sola scriptura. We are not free to interpret scripture anyway we want. The Holy Scriptures are the “norming norm” of all Christian teaching and life. Scripture interprets us, we don’t interpret Scripture. It forms us, we don’t form it. This being said, even the Scriptures have a standard that measures its authority–the Holy Gospel of the glory and sheer grace of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Some Scripture is more consistent with this than others. That being said, I don’t think “anything goes.”
I don’t believe that the Scriptures condemn lifelong, committed, monogamous, and loving same-sex relationships. The writers of the Bible did not understand sexual orientation to the degree we know today.