Just as an aside, I would like to point out that this common Christian eunuch analogy doesn’t make a lot of historical sense.

Eunuchs in the Mediterranean world of the biblical era, especially the New Testament era, were widely regarded as highly sexual. Hellenized people of the eastern Mediterranean region were well aware that kings and other rulers even further east used eunuchs to guard their harems, not because eunuchs would not have sex with women in the harem, but because they would and pregnancy would not result.

Closer to home, elite Greeks and Romans kept eunuchs as prized sex slaves or clients, either for their own pleasure or to earn money for them as prostitutes.

The idea of eunuchs as sexless beings is a very recent one. Even as late as 19th century Italy, the castrati (eunuchs) of the clerical and operatic musical world were famous (or infamous) for their highly charged sexuality, highly prized as romantic/sexual partners.

So when modern church people talk about gay folks needing to be celibate or to refrain from sex, and when they use eunuchs in the Bible to talk about that, they are very off base.

The people wrote passages about eunuchs in the Bible would never have considered part of the eunuch experience to be abstaining from sex.

When you realize they would have meant quite the opposite, whole new meanings snap into place.