I personally know of people that used to be gay but then accepted Christ and gave up the homosexual lifestyle. One doesn’t have the power to give it up otherwise.

This is pure and utter nonsense. You are playing word games, as you well know.

You know people who converted to a religious doctrine that excluded their ability to identify with their same-sex attractions. So they decided not to call themselves “gay” anymore.

I’m perfectly happy with people choosing celibacy if they think that will bring them some sense of peace. But it is ludicrous to claim that only by conversion to Christianity can one have the power to live celibate or to identify as something other than gay.

Your mistake, spage, is in your basic premise. That by accepting the orientation that God has given to gay people they are somehow “rejecting Christ”. That simply isn’t true.

Rather, they are rejecting your Levitical, ’scary angry god’ exclusionary, and condemnation and fear based brand of religion.

What exactly is the homosexual lifestyle?

I personally know of people that used to be gay but then accepted Christ and gave up the homosexual lifestyle. One doesn’t have the power to give it up otherwise. However, once you become a born-again Christian, you become a new creation in Christ with the power to give up any bad habit, sin, etc.

@John
Don’t forget asexuals. I’m asexual and given the choice between Gay, Straight, and Not Say, I’d choose the last. Asexuals are ballparked at 1%of the population.