Handling A Homosexual Orientation

Is there absolutely nothing a homosexual could do in order to express their sexuality without violating Biblical obligations?  For Christians who either truly do have a homosexual orientation or are uncertain about their sexual orientation one way or another because of cultural pressures, the truth of this matter is something with ramifications that have direct application to their personal lives.  The societal tendency for people identifying as Christians to conflate homosexual feelings and actions and thus to hate all people who simply experience homosexual feelings is based on an asinine misunderstanding of sexuality and the Bible.  The contrasting societal tendency to encourage heterosexuals and homosexuals to act however they please within subjective, assumption-based restrictions is also asinine since conscience and social norms are irrelevant to morality's existence and the details of particular obligations one way or another.  For Christians with a homosexual orientation who understand all of this, there is always the option of masturbating to the thought of or perhaps an image of someone of the same gender to potentially relieve sexual desires without mishandling them. 

Even if this at first is too controversial for them to assess easily, any willing person can prove that this would at the very least be far better for Christians than committing an interpersonal act that the Bible plainly calls a capital offense in Leviticus 20:13, with lesbian sex being equally as sinful as voluntary male-male homosexual sex by logical extension even though Leviticus mentions men in this verse.  Furthermore, it is true that the Bible condemns homosexual behaviors rather than homosexual desires, which for various individuals might or might not really be something they cannot choose to have, though they could always choose to act upon or not act upon them.  It is also the case that it does not logically follow from homosexual activities being condemned that masturbating to the same gender to potentially alleviate sexual energy is morally wrong on the Biblical worldview, and Deuteronomy 4:2 clearly opposes either adding to or ignoring the real commands of the Bible.  Recognizing all of these details, one could realize why masturbating to the same gender, as long as a person's intention is not to disregard God's commands, is not necessarily wrong, though one could realize these other things without discovering that this is consistent with them.

Just as it is not sinful for heterosexual people to masturbate to the thought or sight of the opposite gender but sinful for them to knowingly masturbate to rape, incest, adultery, and so on because this is to treat sinful deeds (which deserve execution according to the Bible) as if they are not evil, it would still be sinful for homosexuals to masturbate to homosexual behaviors.  Using a sinful deed as stimulation for masturbation is far from masturbating to a mental image of a real or contrived figure of the same gender in order to lessen the burdens of living with a sexual orientation that one is forbidden to act upon with others.  Again, just having sexual feelings is not sinful no matter what those feelings are or would otherwise prompt someone to do; it is what one believes and does because of it that could be irrational and evil.  The difference is that heterosexual behavior is allowed within several boundaries that provide much more freedom than most people think [1], whereas all homosexual acts, as opposed to feelings, are sinful.

Merely masturbating to someone of the same gender without the intention of glorifying homosexual acts (masturbation is not a homosexual behavior, though some evangelicals are stupid enough to think stimulating one's own genitals is the same as having sex with the same gender) avoids both the moral problems with using sinful sexual acts involving other people for pleasure and with acting on homosexual attraction with other people.  This neither has to be motivated by a desire to disregard Biblical ethics nor has to lead to something the Bible prescribes execution for.  Since this does not actually violate the commands against homosexual behaviors and it does not logically follow from anything in the Bible that this particular way of handling a homosexual orientation is sinful, Deuteronomy 4:2 and reason reveal that this is a valid way for Christians facing homosexual desires to act.

[1].  For some examples, see here:

 A.  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2016/12/sexual-legalism.html

 B.  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-truth-about-erotic-media-part-2_19.html