There is a common objection to the church's teaching on homosexuality. It is this: Jesus didn't say anything about homosexuality. But he had lots to say about how we are to treat the poor. Consequently, it is more important to fight poverty than it is to fight homosexuality.
A major fallacy in this argument is that Jesus talked so much about taking care of the poor because it was arguably the most crucial matter in their society. In other words, injustice against the poor was, in that society, a very common sin. It only makes sense that Jesus would address a sin that was extremely common and fundamentally affected their society. Homosexuality was virtually unknown in practice, and its sinfulness totally unquestioned. Jesus didn't need to say anything about it because virtually no one committed it or doubted it was wrong. The same cannot be said of injustice against the poor. Just as preachers today never preach against murder (unless they are going through the commandments), because everyone knows murder is wrong, so Jesus had no reason to preach against homosexuality. Consequently, you cannot argue, as many do, that Jesus doesn't care about homosexuality merely because he said nothing about it, or that we should spend more attention on addressing poverty than addressing homosexuality because that's what Jesus did.
A good way to address this fallacy is to ask people two questions: 1) Do you think that pedophilia is a sin and an issue that needs to be addressed? 2) What do you think of the fact that Jesus never said anything about pedophilia?
This will effectively put the lie to the arguments "Jesus never said anything about homosexuality therefore it must be unimportant or even OK."
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