That's the key message. A homosexual person will (probably)always live with homosexual temptation, just like everybody else lives with whatever their particular temptation is. And when I say "lives with," I mean "struggles with."
Yet homosexual persons, like all the rest of us, can overcome objectively bad behavior.
I may be an alcoholic. It may be a lifelong temptation, but I can learn to abstain from alcohol.
I may be a scolder, with a sharp tongue and a short temper. But I can learn to abstain from assailing people verbally.
I may be an emotional eater, a glutton. But I can learn to abstain from overeating.
Homosexuality is in some ways like every other wayward drive. You recognize that it's a problem area, you don't justify it, you don't indulge it. With God's help, you gain insight into your weaknesses, you cultivate habits of virtue, you confess your faults, you avoid "near occasions of sin", you resist temptation,.
You strive to live with a pure mind and love with a pure heart.
This applies to everybody, not just the 1-3% who have the homosexual label.
Sounds like his viewpoint on the issue is the same as Courage from the Roman Catholic church, i.e., homosexual acts are still prohibited and those who struggle with homosexual temptations must abstain from them. How is that renouncing his position?