Dude ..this sin is like all other sin..it begins in the heart and mind...to even promote that the attraction is acceptable to God is to approve this sin. Just as the Lord clearly taught ... A homosexual attraction is a sin not just the sexual act.
I and Lis have not stated that the attraction is acceptable to God. The attraction is sinful. It is to be resisted.
What we disagree with you on is that we believe people are born with this sinful attraction as a manifestation of the fallen nature of man. Man is born inherently selfish and sinful in nature. We believe this sinful attraction is also inherent in those afflicted with it. It does not make it acceptable, for its not acceptable to be sinful in nature nor is it acceptable to be selfish, yet we all are. WHY? Because of Adam's sin in the garden.
You do not acknowledge this response because you are either ignoring us or simply unwilling to acknowledge that we are against the sinful attraction. Yes, even we who have the desire, recognize it is sinful.
I was never molested, raped, or sexualized at an early age. I didn't have an overbearing mother or an absent father. I don't fit into you nice little picture that makes it someone elses fault that I have this affliction. Why do I have this affliction? Because I am human. This is my sinful nature that I lay bear on the altar of Christ. No one did this to me. No one messed me up to be this way. I am a sinner, who falls at the feet of our Loving Saviour and asks for His forgiveness and His strength to overcome and beat down this sinful attraction.
You are the ones who wish to blame others for this, by explaining it away of "Oh you were raped...you need to get over it." (BY THE WAY, NOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO SOMEONE WHO WAS RAPED!) or you say, "You chose this." Yeah, I chose to get followed home and almost beaten, had it not been for a friend of mine who was sitting on his porch with a shotgun. Yeah, my ex-boyfriend chose to live a life that would get him kicked out, disowned, and beaten with a bat so that he has a permanent scar across his forehead.
We did not choose our sinful desires. But they are OUR SINFUL desires. They are OUR CROSS to bear, and to lay down at the feet of Christ as we cry out for mercy. They are not your sins. They are not Lady's sins. They are OUR SINS. We own them because we acknowledge that we are in need of a Saviour.
Now, I've been celibate and chaste for years, by the Lord's strength. Those desires are actually dwindling slowly, THANK GOD! However, I do not trust my desires, I do not trust my flesh, because I know what it wants, and what it is capable of.
In short, we are born gay because we are BORN IN SIN! Gay attractions are sinful desires. TO give into them is to COMMIT SIN. We should not fantasize, we should not lust, and we should not physically act on them. For to do that is SINFUL! What you fail to acknowledge is WE ALREADY KNOW THIS! Laying the blame on us as wanting to be hated and killed, or laying the blame on a (ficticious in my case, cause I've never been raped) rapist, is to pass the Buck. WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS! How about you help by inviting us to dinner on a friday night, or to come watch a game, or go to a hymn sing, or go out for a cup of coffee for real conversations about God and the Universe instead of standing on the sidelines screaming, "SINNER SINNER SINNER" as if you were Satan himself before God. How about you actually get involved in ministries that help homosexuals live a life of chastity.
OR HOW ABOUT THIS? ASK US IF WE NEED PRAYER BECAUSE LAST NIGHT WE HAD A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS AND ARE AFRAID? HOW ABOUT THAT? HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY BEING CHRIST TO US?
How about being the one's we can confide in, when the struggle gets bad? How about being an accountability for us saying, "I'm not sure you should spend time with him, I've noticed that when you do, you have a heard time with your desires"? HOW ABOUT THAT?! BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR! Someone to see us as human, as their brothers and sisters in Christ! HOW ABOUT THAT?!