Homosexual acts are a sin, and therefore can be repented of, renounced, etc. My point was that the claim that the Church is running around hunting down and persecuting homosexuals is ridiculous, since unless they are committing the sin (which is not simply living with a person of the same sex, but having sexual relations with that person), the Church is not involved. Even a person who for one reason or another is inclined or thinks he is inclined to be attracted to the persons of the same sex, as long as he resists and doesn’t do anything about it, hasn’t committed a sin. I don’t think homosexuality is innate, but people may have been emotionally conditioned through bad childhood experiences or one thing or another to avoid the opposite sex and thus will have trouble forming healthy relationships.
However, if that person decides to identify and define himself as “gay” and therefore claim that this supposed “sexual identity” trumps Christian teachings, he’s essentially prepared his will to accept sin and in fact to deny that it even is sin. It’s this “gay identity” that he thinks permits him to engage in the logical impossibility of “same-sex marriage” as well as to violate all of the Church’s other teachings on sex and chastity. So the Church has got to be very firm against this, and I think that people in authority have not been very clear about this.
I agree with you.