I always thought that people choose to turn against God and then as a consequence choose to live a homosexual life. However, I have read stories of Christian gay people that grew up in the church and got saved and loved Jesus that desperately tried to change their sexual orientation to no avail, and some have even committed suicide. Additionally, the largest gay change ministries have folded due to a lack of positive long term results. These people are a problem for our theology that trite answers won’t solve. If God creates us for His glory in his image, did he make a mistake with the gays? Or did he make them that way to show his power to heal, but why hasn’t he done so consistently? Did he make them that way so they would grow through suffering? That doesn’t sound very loving. There is just no easy solution for these people that my community has pretended don't exist.
I have known many rotten sinners in the church including myself. Yet they and I never faced the same condemnation from the church as LGBTQ people. It seems that if we exclude people from membership or service opportunities for being gay we should also exclude the arrogant, boastful, envious, and gossipers.
I have never known a Christian with no sin in their life, so we will all die as sinners. If somehow it was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that being gay is sinful, gays would just be sinners like me. We might have different sins, but we would be the same, people that can't always get it right and need Jesus grace badly.
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