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[Another fundie has asked TimothyK for advice about witnessing to his wife’s uncle and partner who are “unapologetic” homosexuals.]
The sting of the law is removed, though the physical consequences of sin are apparent and do take a toll. God will not be mocked. We do reap what we sow.

No one wants to be miserable. The physical consequences of homosexuality are readily apparent. Homosexuals live very short lives compared to the rest of the population. The physical sexual aspects of their practices are unmentionable.

To put it very generally, it’s unsanitary and not at all promoting of a healthy or especially content lifestyle.

They literally destroy themselves. They use their bodies in an inappropriate fashion and well... with time, it breaks. They’ll likely need surgery and even that might not help.

We wrestle with issues. We’re troubled with sin, we hate it.

No one who is saved wants to offend God or work against Christ’s work. If they would be saved and profess to be saved, you should see some progress over time to the secondary issues of sin, such as their homosexuality.

They should make efforts to turn away from this. If nothing else, they should be convicted of their sin.

If this does not let up if they refuse to repent of this sin, if they remain proud of what they do and entirely unrepentant with no evidence to the end of a change or a turning away from that lifestyle, it’s suspect.

It’s questionable if they were ever saved to begin with should they have professed to be saved. God alone knows the heart. But it is no sin to call a spade a spade. You might save someones life by doing so.

[Fundies have been reacting to the discovery of a tablet which describes a flood story that predates the Bible.]

I read about this elsewhere.

As to this story pre-dating the Bible, Moses did not record the events of Genesis from first hand knowledge. I mean, he was not there physically to witness the flood. So, how did Moses know what he knew? 1) Stories handed down from Noah's children through Abraham, etc. and down to Moses; and/or 2) God told him. I write "and/or" because I think he grew up knowing a lot of this history, but God then set him straight.

Next point. If a worldwide flood actually occurred, then there would be recollections of that handed down through the generations that descended from Ham, Shem and Japtheth. What happens to stories when they are handed down across generations, particularly in cultures that do not follow Yahweh? They get corrupted - modified to fit the culture or the ideas of the story tellers. (Think about the original Cinderella compared to the modern versions.) And what do we have? Different ancient accounts of a worldwide flood, but with different cultural glosses. Therefore, a worldwide flood did happen.

How do we know that the account in the Bible is the correct one? Because everything else in the Bible has been shown to be true, therefore the Bible's version of the story must be correct. Why would that be? Because God inspired Moses to write the Pentateuch, aka first 5 books of the Bible.