No, it is different. Someone feeling same-gender attraction is not neccessarily the same as someone acting on it. If someone is willing to live one’s life chaste and not engage in homosexual acts, that is fine. It still is a far move to allow people who praise immoral sexual acts to lead a religion. I would see it just as bad as me celebrating over my sins.
Thoughts lead to actions but only actions have been condemned as an abomination by God.