[ConservativeMind]

I’m sorry, but God does not accept us fulfilling our desires if they are not what He wants. I might be tempted by someone’s wife, but it is a sin for me to seek after her.

It is also a sin to engage in homosexuality. You may be attracted to someone of the same sex, but it is a sin to allow yourself to have homosexual relations. It is not a sin to be tempted and to not engage.

This is Bible 101 stuff.

[jwparkerjr]

I have always felt it was wrong to claim being a homosexual was a sin. To me the term means one who is attracted to the same sex. As you so correctly point out, it's one thing to be tempted, but something else entirely to give in to that temptation.

Regardless, it's my humble opinion that each of us will have to answer for our own lives and behavior. Goodness knows I'll be way too busy shuckin’ and jivin’ trying to handle my own life to wish ill on anyone else!

Face it. If any one of us could live a life free of sin then there would be no need for a savior. Everyone is going to sin, before they are saved and after they are saved. All the way to the grave. God knows this and thankfully made arrangements to take care of it, long before any of sinned!

I am reminded of Paul, when he lamented understandng why he didn't do the things he knew he should do, but did did do the things he knew he shouldn't do. Boy is that the story of MY life!