We would all do well to read and reflect carefully on an article by Wesley Hill. Wesley Hill writes (these are his words, not mine):
I am drawn to these haunting confessions of Auden’s because I, too, am a homosexual Christian. Since puberty, I’ve been conscious of an exclusive attraction to persons of my own sex. Though I have never been in a gay relationship as Auden was, I have also never experienced the “healing” or transformation of my sexual orientation that some formerly gay Christians profess to have received. But I remain a Christian, a follower of Jesus. And, like Auden, I accept the Christian teaching that homosexuality is a tragic sign that things are “not the way they’re supposed to be.” Reading New Testament texts like Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 through the lens of time-honored Christian reflection on the meaning and purpose of marriage between a man and a woman, I find myself—much as I might wish things to be otherwise—compelled to abstain from homosexual practice.
As a result, I feel, more often than not, desperately lonely.
How are we doing in being there for desperately lonely people?
Click here to read the whole thing.
Not very well, I’m afraid. Certainly, we all have desires that run contrary to God’s good intention. My kids asked recently why we won’t sin in heaven. I told them, ‘because we won’t want to! Those wrong desires will be gone! We’ll be free!’ But how lonely, in deed, to lack Christian supporters who will commiserate with you while you carry the burden of these wrong desires in this life.