If your eye causes you to sin, cut out and throw it away for it is better to enter eternity with one eye than to be cast into the outer darkness. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away...
I take from this that if a lust (like homosexuality) causes you to stumble you should remain celibate rather than giving in to ungodly and animalistic instincts.
That said, I wish I were perfect but I'm not. I am not gay, but I did have a drinking problem. Now I just compulsively over eat. Progress?
Rich Mullens once said that being gay was either not as big a deal as many Christians make it, or those Christians should ditch all their fat friends immediately.
But then, though I don't treat gay people any differently than i treat any other "sinners" (read: people) I'll also point out that Paul makes it clear that homosexuality is a sign of a particularly degraded spiritual state.
Progress? nope...same problem manifesting itself in a different format ..thats all