In reply to Jeff Berner.

Jeff: In your reference to John 9, it seems that you are equating the man's blindness to gay tendencies - both as conditions that people are born with, and maybe even suffer from through no fault of their own. I don't know if that is a valid comparison or not, but following that logic should Jesus have left the blind man stay blind, then? Or, should the blind man have refused Jesus's healing stating "sorry, but this is how I was born, and this is how I want to continue living"? But neither of those two possibilities came to be. Jesus offered healing and the blind man accepted by following Jesus's instructions to wash in the Pool. I agree that we all have conditions that require understanding and love from our fellow believers, but I think it would be a mistake to accept, promote, and celebrate any of our sinful conditions as the way it ought to be. What a loss if we were to ignore the real-world healing that took place in John 9!