Homosexuality and Evangelical snobbery

I have known many men who were gay and loyal to their mates in covenant and many evangelical Christians who have not been to their wives. Yet one is cast into hell and the other rewarded. I have known those same men to have been devoutly lovers of Christ before they discovered their gayness and, once realizing their sexual orientation, threw over board their faith because it is not Godly or Holy. Is it merely an ethical issue?
I am not saying the practice of homosexuality is in anyway endurable before God. I put this question out: What is -endurable before God- anyway? Are we in anything virtuous on our own? Who in light of pure Christian theology could say yes? Isn’t it in Christ alone that our hope is found? Is it not His virtue and nature that covers us as a means to enter His rest?

Any sin is "missing the mark" (hamartia) and deserves death. This we know. The blood of Christ covers those very sins…as a result of what? Confession and repentance via Faith in the finished work of Christ. Therefore, the homosexual and the heterosexual both need the same renunciation of their sin. The homosexual his life style, -for it is obvious in scripture that this is not intended by God to be the best for us- and the heterosexual; because, despite mere sexual orientation, our very nature desrves death.

Now, the heterosexually married man who wrestles with pornography, or prostitution, or perhaps fraudulating finances - what ever the case- he, as the homosexual, needs to repent and move from those lifestyles.

Yet, is it as easy as that? SNAP! All allurement to those vices cease? Its ridiculous to believe that post-repentance means that our nature cannot still be enticed by those things.
My point is that we need to extend equal ammounts of grace and view our selves in the same light, for "all of us have become as one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment (lit. menstrual cloth, for an idea of how polluted); We all fade like a leaf, and our inequities, like the wind, take us away" Isa. 64:6. In working around homosexuals I yearn for their salvation, for their restoration, and hurt with them in seeing the unjust pangs evangelicals have given them. Anti-gay riots where evangelicals with banners scream: "sodomites burn! Repent or burn, faggots!", such are some of the heinous outcries I have witnessed. Sadly, this is the assumption the world has of the churches opinion of sin: one sided and virtue oreinted. If only we would level the ground at the cross and work through acceptence - again, not of life style, but as bearers of His image- we might see them embrace Christ and produce fruit for His Kingdom. What a testimony!

For a homosexual that became a lover of Christ see:
http://www.dennisjernigan.com/

p.s. I wrote this while listening to Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark"...humor for those who understand the moment that song came about.