If it’s gay first and Christian second, that’s the wrong order to begin with.
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Why does anyone need to know they are “gay”?
They don’t need to tell anybody anything about their sexual preferences and orientation.
Anyone who calls himself “gay” and still manages to defy the temptation to indulge that self-destructive behavior has earned my respect.
Christian identify is to be rooted in Christ, not sexual orientation. A Christian might struggle with same-sex attraction but that doesn’t mean their identity is built upon it. If I struggle with the sin of anger, that doesn’t mean I should call myself an angry Christian.
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If a homosexual fights the urges and has accepted Christ, who am I to call him less of a Christian?
I am a Christian who is celibate in his promiscuity, as I suspect are the overwhelming majority of male Christians, perhaps all Christians. Desire is as much a sin as acting on the desire, but as Luther put it in his first of the 95 theses, the Christian life is one of continuous repentance.
Every Gay I have ever met, would mate with a fence post if it was wearing enough makeup.
The gay Christian view eliminates the role of the Holy Spirit and of Scripture.
If Scripture says man-woman, the Holy Spirit, if He is at work in a man’s heart, will bring that about. Or the Holy Spirit is going to bring about a pure form of celibacy.
There are no gay Christians. There may be Christians who fight sexual temptations, whether for porn or homo acts or rape or whatever. Sometimes the flesh may flare up and they want to have sex in a way or with someone that is forbidden.
But we are not adultery Christians, or bestiality Christians, or homo Christians. We are just Christians. We are not required to marry and have sex. But if we so desire we may marry a godly spouse and have at it. Them’s the rules.
To imagine you can spend a lifetime lusting after same sex folks without repentance is to delude yourself.
If one is truly tempted to such, and truly refrains for the sake of Jesus Christ, then I would accept that one as a fellow Christian.
However, I would not trust that person, say, to watch over young boys alone, anymore than I would trust a Christian kleptomaniac to watch over a retail store alone.
Either scenario, far from being respectful, would be providing gratuitous temptation to a brother.