A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus

No Christian should carry a cross alone, and if someone is, the church is not fulfilling the law of Christ, as Paul talks about in Galatians 6:2.

I knew in this moment that marriage was something innate to God’s own image and his intention for our humanity. He had made them male and female to reflect his glory. It was beautiful.

Same-sex erotic desires are part of our fallen humanity.

God, not marriage, was to be our ultimate desire.

Very few same-sex-attracted or gay people report that when they become Christians, their desires simply disappear. Rather, as in my story, many find that God gives them a special empowering grace to be celibate.

As a gay celibate Christian, I recognize that Christ is my ultimate identity; gay and celibate come second. My identity is first and foremost in Christ, but those other two descriptors tell the redemptive story of God’s grace in my life.

The God revealed in Jesus Christ is the definition of love.

God’s love should displace all others and occupy the primary space in our hearts. It is, simply, what we were made for.

exchanging the image of God for another image in anything we do (as expressed in male-male and female-female pairing, as Paul outlined in Romans 1) represents a rejection of God himself.