[John O]

It is quite plain that what is meant by "gay" is a homosexual orientation, not the participation in any homosexual activity.

Let me be more direct. There is no such thing as homosexual orientation. There is homosexual temptation and how you respond to that determines your fitness for the priesthood.

We are all heterosexual by design and by biology. If we are tempted to misuse that design in sexually pervers ways (be it homosexual, bestial, necrophiliac or whatever) then we are identifying with our sin instead of with our Savior.

There is no genetic cause of homosexual behavior. Therefore there are no 'homosexuals' there are only people responding incorrectly to homosexual temptation.

[BikerNYC]

Let me be more direct. There is no such thing as homosexual orientation. There is homosexual temptation and how you respond to that determines your fitness for the priesthood.

Do you really think that? If your daughter came home with a young man who said that he had wrestled with the temptation of homosexuality for many years, but had never acted on that temptation, and believes he had conquered it, would you feel right having her marry him?

There is no genetic cause of homosexual behavior.

What you are really arguing for is that there is no genetic cause for any sexual behavior.

Why does one person experience a certain temptation and another person will not?