Quite agreed — Jesus as Savior from sin would be a significant feature of a sincere church, and because of this, the temptation to stratify sin would be resisted. The repentance move is to embrace Jesus for His love with the intention to use this love to get right with Him looking towards eternity.
Buggery (and other sexual sin in the sado-masochistic vein) is an idolatry-of-hostility move. But it can be mighty addictive because we are all born sinners. The only real antidote for this is love of a divine quality. And that love can only be acquired through an embrace of Jesus.
The archbishop is right, ironically. “Jesus, we shouldn’t be here.”
There is a pastor in CA who was raised by hetero professors. While growing up, both parents decided they were homosexual and divorced to fulfil their longings. They taught their son to hate Christians.
Eventually, he was introduced to Jesus and eventually became a pastor.
His parents were horrified.
But he was able to show the love of Christ to his parents, and both are now Christians, if I recall correctly, and they abstain from their homosexuality.
He wrote a book. Will post it in a later reply.