In the Orthodox Christian view as I understand it, the phenomenon of same-sex attraction is originally due to humanity’s rebellion against God. It is, in a word, an element in the second of the three dimensions of the Orthodox experience of reality to which we referred above: the corruption of the world by human sin. All our reflections here will return in different ways to this conviction, relating it to the other two fundamental convictions of Orthodoxy: namely, the foundational goodness of creation