A question for Evangelsit Paul (or anyone else)
I have a question for Evangelist Paul: You say that homosexual behavior is a sin, but what about non-practicing gays? Are they in sin even if they don't engage in same-sex relationships?
The reason I ask is because I'm gay and I have never had a sexual encounter with another man or a woman as a matter of fact. Actually I don't intend on ever having a relatinship with another man because I simply feel that I would be betraying my family (who oppose homosexuality) and my body. However, that doesn't mean I don't feel attracted toward men, because I do. I have strong desires to dress like a woman, my voice is very feminine, and my body movements are also very feminine-like. Just by looking at me, most people can easily conclude that I'm not "masculine". I cannot change those things about me. Ever since I was a child I've liked men. It bothers me to read comments where people keep saying that being gay is a choice. I'm a living testimony that being gay is NOT a choice. I didn't wake up one day saying "I'm gonna be gay from now on. Trust me, If I could chooce, I would choose not to be gay. Why? Because knowing that you're different, or gay as I later would come to realize, and acting diffently from the other boys or males, is not easy. I was always teased and called names during all of my school years. It broke my heart everytime, because they were right, I was gay, I was different. I would cry for hours calling on God to change me. But he never did. It is living hell being gay, even if you don't actually carry out your homosexual desires. I wish some of y'all anti-gay people would spend just one day in our shoes. Then you would realize that homosexuality is NOT a choice. The solution is not just about coming to God or realizing that homosexual behavior is sin. This problem, if we can call an innate tendency that, needs to be looked at more objectively than what conservative Christians do.