Nothing makes me more weak in the stomach than when I see Orthodox Christians speaking like the Westboro Baptist church when it comes to the gay community.

You can disagree with these individuals in their political agenda, but to demean and diminish their struggle as human beings is just wrong. They are made in the image of God, as you are. They have banged their head against walls, cried to the heavens and weeped in their souls over their own sexuality. Maybe some choose to embrace it as a choice, but how does one explain my own friend, who loves and seeks after God, chooses celibacy and still cannot be attracted to a woman? He fights everyday against himself. I admire him for this choice, but I’m also saddened that he will all his life be engaged in fighting his passions without the potential for channeling that passion towards a woman. I can’t say that would NEVER happen but it seems unlikely.

So, if someone asks me if I think homosexuality is a sin, I will say that any sexual relations outside of the covenant bond God has instituted for His creation is a sin. And yet, I will much more loudly proclaim that I cannot attain this level of purity without tears and screams either. I have myself often looked at other women in pornography. I often disregard my wife, the other part of me. I mock others and think of myself better than them in pride. I have done this over and over again. Who am I to be disgusted at the sins of another human? As Paul said, I proclaim I am the chief of sinners.