Our churches have been providing an inconsistent and often confusing witness about this issue in particular and, most importantly, what the scriptures have to say.

To get right at it - I hope that science does prove that gender/sex identity/attraction are not a matter of choice, but are things we are born with. Quite frankly, that would not weaken our position on gender/sex identity/attraction, but actually confirm it. Here's why.

As has been said (in many more words) above, the scriptures teach that sin is not simply a matter of choice, but it is also something we cannot control. We are born in it. I am born sinful and I did not choose it, just as people are born with a gender/sex identity/attraction identity that they did not choose. Just because I was born with a sinful orientation that I cannot control doesn't mean that it is still not sin. I am born sinful, and I cannot control it.

Whether something is sinful or not has little to do with whether I have a choice in that matter or not. Sin is sin, whether I have no control over it or not.

If science proves that gender/sex identity/attraction is something we have no control over, we can say: of course! I have no control over the sin in my life! That makes me no different from anybody else who identifies as lesbian, gay, bi or transgendered. We are all equally born in sin that we cannot control, and all equally in need of salvation.

Most important here is the Gospel that we are so quick to ignore - it is exactly because I have no control over the Sin in my life that God became man and died for me. It is exactly because I am born doing things that are wrong in God's eyes (that I cannot control) that Jesus came down and won my release from the power of the devil.

We have so quickly and readily given into the language of choice that we have forgotten what the scriptures actually teach about sin. It is not a choice - but I am still responsible for my sin.

We have so quickly and readily given into the language of choice that we have forgotten what the scriptures actually teach about salvation. It was his choice - but I receive eternal life.

Praise be to God that I am not left up to my own choice, otherwise, I would be lost. Praise be to God that rescue from sin depends not on my choice, but on Jesus' choice to rescue me by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. Praise be to God that it is not my choice, but his choice that matters.