Let me add this: we are all "born that way" in the sense that we are all born with disoriented minds and wayward drives: damaged one way or another. Everyone could look over a list of the Seven Deadly Sins and find one or two which have a lasting hold on you, real faults about which we're likely to first deny, and then insist, "But that's just ME!".
Yeah. A fallen race on a cracked planet.
Which is only to say, nobody is entitled to an entire and congratulatory self-satisfaction. We are not perfect. We are not God. We tend to justify our real problems and our sinful mistakes. We need help.
What I have in common with the gay people I love, is this: all of this.
I largely agree with the author, just as I agreed with Mr. Hannon, whom he references. It’s a serious problem that people take as the definition of their identity, “What I want to use for genital gratification.”
I see little chance of “the right” having anything to offer as an alternative to homosexual “marriage.” “The right” is saying, “Hey, the obvious next thing is polygamy ... I can buy two or three Filipinas!”
This is not to say that many people, including many Christians, are responding based simply on sentiment, unaided by much in the way of reason. They’re wrong, but this doesn’t make them evil.