Same sex attraction (SSA) does not deserve special sin status; and yet many Christians, and their ecclesial denominations are giving it this status as I write. To even acknowledge this distorted order, this sin as a special sin is to give away the theological goose before we even get started. The New Testament doesn’t single out homosexual attraction in special ways. Indeed, the NT lists homosexuality among a bunch of other sins. Note I Corinthians 6:9-11: 

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 

If we were to visit Leviticus, we would see the same phenomenon. Homosexuality throughout the canon of Holy Scripture is understood to be an abomination before God as much as any other sin. James 2:8-13 says: 

8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. 13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 

There is nothing complicated about this issue in the NT or OT witness of Holy Scripture. There is no need to make an elaborate argument. Someday, and I’d venture to say, sooner than later, pagans and Christians alike will come to recognize that a clairvoyant prophetic witness stood among them as found within the totality of the canon of Scripture. As Yahweh declares through Ezekiel about Ezekiel’s witness: 

30 “As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. 32 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. 33 When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.” -Ezekiel 33:30-33 

God speaks clearly. God does not die the death of a thousand qualifications; that’s our interpretations and recontextualizations of Scripture that die such deaths.  

People who are struggling with same sex attraction-sin, or any other sin all have been given the same antidote; and this is to the point. The cross of Christ reduces sin to its logical conclusion; to death, or nothingness. We clearly live in sin-riddled bodies, and will until the eschaton (simul justus et peccator); but as Christians we fight! We reckon ourselves, and the members of our bodies dead to sin, and alive to Christ. This is God’s antidote for all sin, no matter what it is. Murder, rape, homosexuality, lying, thievery, the entertainment of impure thoughts, all of these and more have the same antidote: it is the death of death, the cross of Jesus Christ. The Christian has the power of Almighty (Pantocrator) God in Christ standing behind them; this is the power of the reckoning we have been called to. All of sin is reduced to the same level at the foot of the cross; there is no special sin thereat. And yet many churches, even doctrinally ‘orthodox’ ones like the Presbyterian Church of America, have capitulated to the culture and identified same sex attraction as an ontological status among people. They have thus rejected the clear teaching of Scripture on sin, and allowed cultural constructs to shape the way they think sin. Kyrie Eleison  

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 

15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 6:1-23