when given free reign, become compulsively and obsessively enslaving. Thus the biblical admonition, “Be angry, and do not sin” (Ps. 4:4; Eph. 4:26). In the traditional Orthodox Christian view, passions that are simply sexual—in the sense that they have nothing to do with love in any of its forms, but are wholly self-centered and exclusively driven by a desire for carnal and emotional pleasure as an end in itself—are always sinful, whether heterosexual or homosexual. They “miss the mark” for which