[Kevin Curry]

These are feelings, thoughts and actions most have had ever since childhood. Many have hidden and suppressed their homosexual feelings for so long, until they finally gave in and "came out" to the world. Their inner struggle for self-acceptance has turned into a misguided outward struggle for civil rights.

I strongly suspect that every man and woman alive has struggled and is struggling with some hidden, suppressed temptation(s) that he or she cannot simply wish away. The Christian is called to resist the temptation, to seek forgiveness when resistance fails, and to carry on the struggle anew--never justifying, never excusing. Over time the Lord burnishes and perfects the soul of Christian who is faithful in the struggle.

As Paul reported, God's strength is made perfect in the weakness of the faithful Christian.

In the case of a person who breaks free of the homosexual lifestyle there is an added bonus in the here-and-now, for he escapes a disease-ridden and grossly dysfunctional way of life that can never truly satisfy because it is a wholly counterfeit way of life.

It is wonderful that the author of this piece escaped a lie and found Life.

[tessalu]

My husband of 11 years, and the father of my four children, confessed his homosexuality and left home to live with a man. Thirty years had passed until it came his time to die with lung cancer, and I was at the hospital, beside his bed. He said to me, "I wish I had lived my life for Jesus", and I said, "but could you have?" and he said, "Yes, I could have."

I hope that he died with his sin forgiven.

[Protagoras]

It is wonderful that the author of this piece escaped a lie and found Life.

That can happen for you too if you seek forgiveness for your sins.

[yendu bwam]

In the case of a person who breaks free of the homosexual lifestyle there is an added bonus in the here-and-now, for he escapes a disease-ridden and grossly dysfunctional way of life that can never truly satisfy because it is a wholly counterfeit way of life. It is wonderful that the author of this piece escaped a lie and found Life.

Amen.