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Originally Posted by Charlatan
That sounds very Catholic but not neccessarily Christian. You first have to believe that an act of homosexuality is inherently sinful. 22 years sounds like a deeper commitment than most straigh marriages I know.
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If you take the Catholic Church as a 'baseline' Christianity, you will find some splinter groups more conservative (a.k.a. old testament) and others more liberal (ignore the old testament) in their views on homosexuality. Obviously THESE Christians, and I have no idea what sect they come from, are of the old testament variety, which I'm sure you recall is a death penalty for male homosexuals and the destruction of a town by gods own hand.
Paul also writes on homosexuality (New Testament)
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24: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30: Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31: Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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So it seems that perhaps even if you ignore the old testament there is no love for homosexuality in Christianity.
Now perhaps if by Christian you only look at Christs own words, then yes perhaps, you would be correct, but very few Christians ignore everyone but Jesus.