As a good friend and pastor whose brother is living in this destructive lifestyle says, “sexual sin is sexual sin. It can be fornication or homosexual activity, it’s still sexual sin.” First time I’d considered it that way, but he’s right. It’s easy to make unnatural relations somehow “worse sin” than natural but non-married relations. It’s also wrong.
And all sin comes from something broken inside. The sin is the symptom. We’re all broken inside, all conceived with an orientation to desire what sin seems to offer.
Most homosexuals believe they are so different that nobody could understand their struggle. But the truth is that we are all much more alike than we are different. We’re all hungry.
I think what Jesus offers gays in this life is the same thing he offers overeaters, over-shoppers, those chasing after pleasure, popularity, or purpose, the confused, abused, and trampled, etc. He offers us a chance to be free from ourselves - to know that He will take care of all our needs - physical, spiritual, emotional - so we are free to give ourselves freely to others without worrying about what comes back to us in return. We can love Him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, because He gives us everything we need in all those areas, so those “hard drives” are free to be used on Him and His purposes.
It’s a huge gift.