I'm Landon Schott, author of the book "Gay Awareness,

Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ

on Sexuality."

People ask me all the time can you be gay and a Christian?

And my response is what does it mean to be a Christian?

Well, to be a Christian means that you are a Christ follower.

You are a disciple of Jesus Christ.

It means that God's word becomes the lamp into your feet

and the light into your path.

So, my question is where are the scriptures that

teach a disciple of Jesus that they can be a gay Christian?

In fact, I completely reject the concept at all,

because the Bible does.

There is no scriptures that tell how

a husband should treat a husband,

or a wife should treat a wife.

The only scriptures we have are for husbands

how to treat our wives, or wives to honor their husbands.

And in fact, every scripture in the Bible

only supports heterosexual relationships

in the boundaries of marriage.

God is the one who gives us those blueprints.

God's the one that gives us those directives.

It's really important that you understand this,

because when you understand what the Bible says, then

we can say, OK, I'll take the Bible

as the blueprint for my life.

So, when people say can you be a gay Christian, what

they're really saying is this.

Can you struggle with same sex attractions and homosexuality?

Can you be tempted by this and still be a follower of Jesus?

And the answer is absolutely.

All of us are struggling with sin.

All of us are working out our own temptation,

both the heterosexual and the homosexual.

But then they want to take it a step further

and they say, well, if I can be a gay Christian, then

why can't I be a practicing gay Christian?

And the reason why you can't be a practicing gay Christian,

because a dedicated Christ follower will see all

of the scriptures that the Bible rejects homosexual practice

and realize that I cannot walk in a flesh--

I cannot do what I want to do and still be a dedicated Christ

follower.

In fact, in First Corinthians chapter 6, verse 11,

it says many were homosexuals but when

they came to Jesus they were washed,

just like when you come to Jesus you will be washed.

When it comes to homosexuality in Christianity,

we must be unrelenting with our love for people and unwavering

in our loyalty to God's word.