Before I say anything else, I have very close friends who live in homosexual relationships. I love them and their families dearly, and I cherish their friendship. Having said that, they know I disagree with their lifestyles. We just don't talk about it anymore - everything that needs to be said between us about the subject has been. So don't accuse me of hate - I follow what Christ said in loving the sinner but hating the sin. I am a sinner forgiven by grace myself.

The fact that people have misinterpreted the Bible in years past was simply due to ignorance and self-interest. Just an many times, people who quoted the Bible have been wrong. Besides, was Darwin really right? Did we all emerge from teh primordial ooze? There is easily as much evidence that says no as that which evolutionists use to justify their view. However, it is clear - and in the New Testament, not just the Old - that homosexuality is not an acceptable practice. Read Romans, Chapter 1 - specifically verses 26 & 27.

Are people born homosexual? I don't know. I know it's not genetic, because Dr. Dean Hamer's research has been disproved. It is admitted to be a mental issue by the American Psychological Association. Can it be overcome? Yes - I have seen it personally. There are a myriad of other people who have mental and physical issues of one sort or another that overcome with the grace of our Heavenly Father. Because, as it says numerous times in the Bible in various ways, "I can do all thins through Him (Christ) who strengthens me." - Phil 4:13. Paul was chained to 2 Roman guards in a Roman prison awaiting trial for treason when Luke wrote than down for him, half-blind, possibly suffering from epilepsy and certainyl sore from the shipwrecks and the times he had been beaten or stoned and left for dead.

Can a homosexual be converted to heterosexual? Again, I don't have the answer for that. But for those who question why God would have them live lives without marriage, there are many unmarried heterosexual Christians who manage to do so without falling into the trap of sexual sin.