Can a person be gay and Christian at the same time?
A. Those who are Christians–who have entered into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ–may continue to struggle with all sorts of feelings and memories because of their previous lifestyles and behavior. The Bible teaches that being pulled (“tempted”) toward a certain immoral behavior is not sin, but yielding to that pull in thought and/or deed is. So it’s not sin for a Christian to be drawn toward homosexual behavior. But the Bible clearly states that all homosexual behavior is sinful, and must be forsaken in the life of a Christian believer. Further, Christians may fall periodically into sinful moral behavior. When this occurs, the person can ask God’s forgiveness and keep moving forward with a clean heart. Many Christians have been guilty of falling into premarital sex and adultery. But this is different from embracing those behaviors as a legitimate lifestyle and forming your identity as a person around that form of behavior (which is what the pro-gay movement has
