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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug
This is the most ridiculous game of semantics. If a man wants to have sex with men and doesn't want to have sex with women, then he is gay. Calling it "same sex attraction" or a "homosexual temptation" like Elder Oaks does doesn't make it something different.
Again, I don't believe you have ever talked to a gay person about this issue. They aren't "tempted" with "homosexual feelings." They are gay.
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Oh, I fully acknowledge that's what many of them say. And that's certainly what society tells them too. Unfortunately that doesn't reconcile itself to the fact that it's a highly immoral act offensive to God. Sin is what it is, and we're all guilty. No one has a right to rationalize that away on the basis that God hard-wired them that way, no matter the nature of the offense. These are just the kind of heart-rending challenges the atonement exists for.
You call it a semantics game, but words have meaning. The way you characterize an issue can have a huge impact on how you approach handling it, to say nothing of legislating it (i.e., gay marriage).