I think that we marry because we fall in love with a person's inside and the exterior gender thing is just a formality. I wish I had a significant other so that I could participate. I am much happier now, gay than when I was a straight. Let me rephrase that - I am happier now that I realized that I was fighting my true impulse in an attempt to appear normal to the outside world.

I was raised in a bible family -  my grandmother is a Doctor of Theology, learned Greek and Hebrew to translate the texts; my mom runs a church with her pastor / husband; my dad's side of the family is VERY Catholic - and I while the bible does state that homosexuality is one sin among many, one cannot interpret the bible literally for two reasons:

• nuances are lost in translation and,
• really folks, can the finite mind of man know the mind of an infinite God?

Besides, why would God condemn me if he made me gay?