I realize that members of the armed forces are often compelled to share tight quarters; I have stayed in my share of barracks and bunkhouses, and I am sure that sleeping quarters are even tighter ship-board. I know that some of folks with whom I have shared tents, bunk rooms or hotel rooms are gay. A few I knew at the time, some I learned about later. Since they respected my physical space, it was never a problem for me. I have also shared rooms and tents with attractive women with whom I was not having sex without being overcome with the desire to assault them (and apparently, they felt no overwhelming attraction to me, either, sad to say). I have also occasionally found myself in co-ed bunk rooms where a straight couple was “discreetly” having sex. Somehow I survived, even if a little disgusted, and I can assure you that it must be infinitely better than sleeping in a rain-filled fox hole or anywhere the Taliban can shell.

My point is that many of the comments here confuse who people love (and what they practice in private with those they love) with public acts of sex or with unwanted sexual attention. Can it really be that hetero respondents here are convinced that they are so virile that given a chance, no gay person would be able to avoid molesting them, or that given the opportunity, that they could not suppress their urges to assault any woman who wandered near at hand?

I am aware that Baptists think they can get fire insurance, then basically live any way they like. Such is foreign to scripture. Conversion and salvation are neither the same thing, nor do they happen at the same time.

There are many passages that the Calvinist/Baptist idea of “once saved, always saved” founders on. I won’t go into them here. An entire book has been written on the subject, and is available on the internet.

There is a biblical doctrine of “once saved, always saved,” but Calvinists and Baptists don’t teach it.

That’s another side to it that at least needs to be considered–apparently serving like that has a price too. Might not be a sufficient point to change anyone’s mind, but worth at least consideration.