I am concerned, Introverted1293, by how many posts to this thread seriously soften or outright contradict the plain declaration of Scripture concerning homosexuality. It is sin. (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11) We all have impulses and/or attractions to things God has said are out-of-bounds morally. For some, they must resist the impulse to adultery, or general sexual promiscuity; for others, the impulse is to be greedy and materialistic; for still others, the struggle they have is against temper, or laziness, or envy; and so on. No one is totally free of an impulse or attraction toward something sinful. God, though, does not give us a pass on sin, He does not say a sin is okay, just because we feel its attraction powerfully and persistently. We are all to be learning to walk with God such that the power of these sinful impulses and attractions is broken and we live in consistent freedom from, and victory over, them.
A man could make the case that his lust for sex with women is a biological thing, a genetic imperative, and ought therefore to be exercised freely. But God does not agree. He commands the lustful man to reign himself in and confine his sexual activity to the marriage bed. The glutton could argue he has a genetic reason for wanting to eat and that, it being a "natural" impulse, ought not to be restrained. But God does not agree. He condemns the glutton and commands him to self-control in his eating. So, too, the man facing homosexual impulses. God does not agree that, because he believes he has found some vague genetic source for his impulse, it ought to be indulged. No, God says homosexuality is a sin and promises death as its "wages." (Romans 6:23; James 1:15)
Paul the apostle believed that people who had once practiced homosexuality were "new creatures in Christ," not homosexuals just pretending to be straight. And so he wrote,
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Paul did not think those Christians to whom he wrote who had been guilty of the sin of homosexuality were still homosexual. No, that's who they were - past tense. Being born again by God's Spirit they were now children of God, sanctified and justified by Him through Christ and the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit. And he expected them to live like it. Don't accept the World's fiercely-defended notion that if you have same-sex attraction that you are therefore irreversibly homosexual and will only be living a sham if you reject the attraction and live as a heterosexual person. That's a lie straight from the devil, as far as I'm concerned. I think Paul would agree with me. Resist, then, the idea that you are defined by this attraction. You aren't. If you are a child of God, you are a joint-heir with Christ, a new creature in him, and possess in him full freedom from the power and bondage of sin and the devil. This is really who you are. I pray you'll learn to live in the truth of it every day.
Galatians 2:20
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;