As a gay man who tries to integrate and celebrate my life with God and Holy Scripture, I am keenly aware of the 'clobber passages' used as weapons and judgments against me and my community. I heard a new one recently, at least to me, about what is so wrong with "those gays". Pride. Perhaps quoting Proverbs (11:2; 16:15) or James 4:10.
I could easily point in a timely fashion to Donald Trump who is currently at the height of his self inflating, ego centric campaign to crown himself kingpin of the USA. The point is to me is this: What is the source of one's pride and what do we derive from it? I'd say that pride in our own accomplishments is arrogant, short sighted and plain out fool hearty.
If we can take pride in anything, it is who we are as children of God. Even then, it cannot be that it is through our own graces that we have achieved anything. Pride is the acknowledgement of who we were created to be and to whatever extent degree possibly for us, how we cooperated with what God created each of us to be.
In reading 1 Cor. 12:7-11 it would seem prideful arrogance to say or believe that 'my gift' is better than your gift. It would be heresy and sinful to think someone elses' gift of being is not needed or wanted or shouldn't be appreciated.
As to pride in being gay, it is not pride in some specific action that makes one gay. That is no more a valid argument or opinion than taking pride in being heterosexual by marking notches on your bedpost for how many women you've robbed of their virginity or how many times you've cheated on your spouse.
So then, what is there to be so prideful of in being gay? Acknowledging who you are as created specifically by God seems to merit some kind of pride. It exalts God. Celebrating who you are and who you are called to be merits some pride. Being the best gay person you can be, loving someone with genuine Godly love and celebrating the gifts afforded to you by God seems a reason for pride.
When a person is given a desire and talent to be a pianist or a violinist, we can take a certain amount of pride in acknowledging that gift or talent, a God given talent and cooperating with it.
Overall, perhaps it is more sinful to have the arrogance to have us interpret or determine God's intent so that it fits our own personal agenda. Perhaps the false pride that our position is thee correct and only valid opinion that counts is not really holy at all.
Maybe reading Scripture with an open mind and heart would be a better call to Christian action than clobbering people. And maybe opening our eyes to the diversity of God's created world would serve us, and more importantly, serve our creator better than making rash, self serving judgments of others that we simply do not yet understand.
