Is it a sin to have the capacity to be attracted to people of the same sex?

And I would say on that issue, I don't think it is a sin.

All of us will experience certain forms of temptation.

Virtually all of us will experience certain forms of sexual temptation.

We don't tend to choose the particular form temptation takes.

What is our responsibility is how we respond to temptation?

And the Bible is very clear that we need to flee sexual sin.

So the Bible makes a distinction between temptation and sin. Jesus and

the Lord's prayer says, deliver me from temptation, but forgive me from, you know, forgive us

for our sins. So that the experience of being tempted is not in and of itself a sin. It is, however, a reflection of the fact that we

have a fallen nature, that we're even tempted in these ways is a sign that we are, we're not the

way we're meant to be, that we have the capacity to be tempted. In that sense is a sign that we're

fallen.

The temptation itself is not a sin.

I am so glad that we now live in a culture where people can be open about their sexuality.

And so to my gay friends, part of the impetus behind gay pride is this idea, we don't have to

hide anymore, and I want to affirm that.

As a single person with an increased capacity for friendship that comes with that, there's a breadth of intimacy.

I get to experience that you don't. Sure, sure, that's true. So there's, again, there's a breadth of intimacy, I get to experience that you don't.

Sure, sure.

So there's, again, there are some unique pluses to being in my situation.

And I keep coming back to, I know the bridegroom.

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