Here is how I would reply to Buttigeig:
1. By "my creator," I assume you mean God. You are incorrect. God did not create you - nor did God create me. Your mother and your father created you, just as mine did me. I have no issue with your parents. If you do, that's between you and them. Don't drag me into it.
2. You and I were both born into a sinful state. As the Bible says, we were literally born sinful. In me, my inherent sinfulness manifests itself in many different ways, probably 90 percent of so that are common ways that manifest in every person.
3. I am guilty of sexual sin, as is every person on earth. It is unavoidable. For me, my sexual sin was lust for various women to whom I was not married. Sexual lust is a sin even for married men and women. I am thankful that I no longer lust for women to whom I am not married, but I am frank enough to admit that it is possibly not due solely to the work of the Holy Spirit (at my pleading), but also because I am in my mid-60s and have all I can can handle already. Nonetheless, that form of sexual sin is thankfully overcome in me, for which I thank God and give him credit.
4. I am heterosexual. The Bible is clear that human heterosexuality is both intended and endorsed by God. But God does not make a hetero man or woman a hetero adulterer or hetero fornicator. Those are sins that we do on our own. God neither leads us to those things nor shrugs and says, "Oh, well, it's okay because you think you were born that way."
5. You are homosexual. There is not one verse in the Bible that even remotely indicates that homosexuality is either intended or endorsed by God, or that anyone is "born that way," other than the general declaration that all persons are born unavoidably sinful in their being. But that does not make you (or anyone else) "special." It does not mean that your sexual sin is somehow off the books just because you think it should be or want to blame it on God. God does not lead you to have sex with other men. That is something you do on you own. Nor does God simply shrug and say, "Oh, well, it's okay because you think you were born that way."
6. I was, and am, honest enough to admit that my sexual sin was contrary to God's will and God's intentions for humankind. God being my helper, I was able to overcome sinful lust. But I could never have done so if I had dogmatically and selfishly claimed, "I was just born that way."
7. Over to you, Pete.
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