If you are unrepentant, no
Yep.
“If you are unrepentant, no”
Agreed.
It would be no different to ask:
can you be an alcoholic...
can you be an adulterer...
can you be a porn addict...
or (gasp!) can you be a hater or a gossip or a backbiter...
...and be a Christian?
Well, that won’t work for those ones; they think they’re a race, what with their equating their “rights struggles” with those of blacks and all. They won’t stop calling their lust “love”.
100% correct. What was the Apostle Paul’s thorn in his side? No one knows.
Could have been physical pain, could have been sinful inclination, could have been demonic harassment. But God told him His grace was sufficient.
Repent and pray. In Christ alone.
Define “unrepentant” - many claim if you ever engage in the activity again you can’t be repentant - they seem to forget they engage in sinful acts/thoughts daily and even their “little bitty sins” were just as sure to keep them from Heaven as the biggest sins were....except for Jesus’ gift to fulfill the New Covenant God presaged in Jeremiah as He told us that when He gave us this New Covenant, He would forgive our wickedness and recognize our sins no more.
Either the Christianity, or the gaiety, must be held in abeyance. These two worldviews are diametric opposites.
Latent (non-active) homosexuals are free to practice Christianity to the fullest extent of which they may be capable. Christianity, however, can be a harsh taskmaster, and lapses descend into venial, if not mortal sin.
Venial sin may be forgiven, sometimes repeatedly, if the act was not willful, but mortal sin has a whole different motivation, in that there was malice intent abounding behind the act.