Hilarious pastor explains that being sexually attracted to other men doesn't make him gay

A Presbyterian pastor in western Pennsylvania told National Public Radio that despite the fact that he finds himself sexually attracted to men, he is not homosexual.

In a “Sunday Conversation” segment, Pastor Allan Edwards of the Kiski Valley Presbyterian Church said that “I think we all have part of our desires that we choose not to act on,” and that for him, those desires include his sexual attraction to men.

Edwards first realized this attraction in the mid-1990s, when he was in high school. “I didn’t know anyone else who experienced same-sex attractions, so I didn’t talk about it much at all,” he said, adding that there was also “a pretty immediate realization that it was in conflict with my faith.”

At the small Christian liberal arts college he attended, he worried that “if I started talking to other guys about this, I’m going to get ostracized and lambasted,” but “I actually had the exact opposite experience — I actually was received with a lot of love, grace, charity: some confusion, but openness to dialogue.”

Eilzel wrote:Funny little man haha

It is a serious concern though in gay rights debates as to what exactly 'being gay' is.

For many of those opposed to gay rights you 'choose to be gay' by acting on your desires. So from that pov 'its a choice'. Of course that also means 'being straight' must be a choice and you aren't officially 'straight' until you lose your virginity to someone of the opposite gender.

For most people however sexuality is defined by the feelings people have- the desire and the love.

But you can see how this conflict of definition actually confuses the debate- sometimes people aren't even arguing about the same thing.