Across the evangelical spectrum, including otherwise generally orthodox voices,

there is much confusion today over whether or not experiencing same-sex attraction is a sin.

In general, there exists an uneasy default position that goes something like this.

Experiencing same sex orientation or attraction is not sinful in itself,

but acting on such impulses is. is not

believe attraction is a sin

but I do believe attraction is a sin but I do believe that some actions are sin.

Homosexuality is, it's a sin.

Now if you have, now maybe somebody even in this room,

you may have same-sex attractions. I don't know. I would say that's not a sin.

Homosexual behavior is a sin, not homosexual feelings. We all have attractions we ought not act on, right? not

act on right?

There's a difference between attractions and actions.

Some thinkers articulate this general framework

differently by reducing same-sex attraction to a non-sinful

temptation while conceding that sexual lust or desire for those of the same

sex is sinful.

To just be that way, to feel this way, I don't think is any more sin than my feeling heterosexual.

It's unnatural, It's broken. But now I have the choice with my

heterosexuality to make it sin or to make it holy. A person who wrestles

with homosexual temptations, desires, has the same choice.

The temptation itself is not a sin.

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