What so many people fail to realize is that temptation is NOT sin.
Temptation comes, but it’s what we do with the temptation. Do we resist it through the power of the Holy Spirit?
Or do we entertain and engage it and then end up falling into sin?
So being tempted by homosexual sin is not sin itself, nor is it any person’s identity. It’s simply an area where they are easily tempted and they struggle with it. I pity people who deal with that particular attraction because of the stigma attached to it. Nobody is as hard on people for being tempted sexually when it’s with members of the opposite sex, and yet it still is sexual temptation.
Praise God that He can deliver and free people from homosexuality.
We live in a media culture which uses sexual stimulation 24/7/365 for random entertainment, sales, and social change strategies. This combination of a temptation-packed, visually-saturated, "lust-o-genic" culture, plus a social-change agenda to twist people away from a commitment to sex that is specifically procreative, marital, and holy, has set up everybody for barrages of temptation.
And although "everybody" is the target, young males are the bulls-eye. Hence the LGBT campaign to capture the Boy Scouts.
How far this has been wrested from the will of God and from our own good!
May God help us all.
Amen! Prison convicts engaging in homosexual behavior has always been a strong contra-indicator of the “born that way” myth. Active homosexuals are perverts, they CHOOSE to act that way, and they try to convert others. Promiscuous activity is a choice driven by evil temptations that are not resisted.