Just like theft is temptation for a klepto. The inclination is not sin, but acting on it is.
Agreed. Some deal with anger. Others with greed. This is no different.
This temptation is NOT sin--acting on it IS.
I completely agree with you. How many of us decline to act on an inclination to bash somebodies head in when they cut you off in traffic or rude people at the DMV. Or pass up the opportunity to cheat on your spouse? Or walk out of Walmart without paying for something and then bring it back in because it is not paid for? Resist the Devil and he will flee.
Not when you are calling it an orientation. We don't say someone has a dishonesty-orientation or a thieving-orientation or a murder-orientation or an adultery-orientation or a fornication-orientation. We have friendly-ed up a sinful desire by calling it orientation.
Let me ask you this. Is it a sin to have a sin nature? We have to reorient our entire sin nature. I think that's the point here. You don't just change your outward behavior; you change your desires. You change from the inside, out.