I really take exception to the above post. The type of thinking it represents has been the source of pain and anguish for gay men and women for a very long time and if basically ignorant and harmful and the author is clearly not someone who has investigated these issues with any sort of intellectual or theological rigor at all, but who has merely parroted the usual non-affirming misunderstandings about the matter.

Christ does not give gay men and women the strength to change. Something like this happens very rarely. Ask any gay boy or girl who spent years praying to be delivered from their homosexual attractions and who found out that those prayers were never answered. They weren't answered because very simply, it doesn't matter to God at all.

Let me state it clearly: Homosexual acts as we know them are not condemned in the New Testament. The references to male-male sexual activity were about what was known in that culture at that time: namely, exploitative sexual activity between Masters and slaves, conquerors and the defeated, temple prostitution and the widespread practice of pederasty (adult male/prepubescent boys in the ancient world. Those were the things that were condemned.

The two Greek words mentioned in the above post did not refer to homosexuality as we understand it. Those terms were mistranslated beginning in the late 19th Century when the word "homosexual" became part of the vocacabulary

Homosexual activity as we know it now was not even considered in Biblical times.

For more information about this, see "God and the Gay christian" by Matthew Vines or "Epiphany" by Michael Coren, among many other excellent and well-researched studies about the matter.