There are those who make unwarranted interpretational leaps that suggest that relationships between individuals in scripture demonstrate approval of and endorse their own support of homosexual conduct.
People who equate spiritual and emotional intimacy between people automatically with sexual conduct reveal the inadequacy and immaturity of their spiritual and emotional lives and their preoccupation with “love” being defined primarily in terms of sexual behavior. Spiritual and emotional intimacy is a more fulfilling, lasting, and mutually honoring kind of love that includes shared honoring of the Divine who is a part of the communion in such relationships, as well. It has nothing to do with sexual activity. Such a primarily sexual take on “brotherhood”, loyalty, companionship among childhood friends who grow up together, shared values and experiences that can exist separate from sex is a small minded view of “love.” Such a view of David and Jonathan or other biblical persons is effectively an excuse for one’s own desires and behavior and as I heard recently, “An excuse is just a reason stuffed with a lie.”
And it is also difficult to get around God’s definition of marriage. “For this reason a man shall leave his Father and Mother and cleave unto his wife…….Male and female he made them.” Genesis 2:24, 5:2
Stetching to grasp at things that are NOT there while disregarding what IS clearly before us is a deceptive effort at self-justification and cannot be said to be credible in the least.