I don’t know about rationalizing and bending the Word for their benefit.
***That’s not a question, it’s an assertion. And it’s using typical verbal mechanisms such as starting with “I dunno,” but what you really MEAN is “this is how I look at it”. Your claim is that homosexuals rationalize and bend the Word for their benefit. Yup, they do. And so do perhaps MOST of the people in church leadership, many who have had extramarital sex as if the same concepts don’t apply to them. At any rate, I think I agree with your assertion.
It’s true we’re all struggling. It’s why I didn’t put a question mark on that sentence but it’s still a question in my mind.
It’s why I read this article and that book. I have a bundle of questions. I was a greasy grace Christian for years rationalizing I John 1:9, getting drunk and confessing my sins. I know a little about rationalizing and eventually we( or me) come to the end of ourselves and hopefully realize that greasy grace isn’t the good walk.
From what I’ve read in the bible and what I read of late I think celibacy is the right track. I don’t have any homosexual desires but it’s interesting what their struggles are and it must be really really tough.
I have many more questions than answers.