They've been praying to God for years to be released from their homosexual struggles, and many, in despair, have finally given up and given in, leaving the church for the streets or for a church that preaches the heresy of pro-gay Christianity. Others have opted to stay in the fellowship of their childhoods, hiding the fact that their theology has changed, and they now accept themselves as being gay. Fear of rejection has ruled their lives for so long that to survive they've learned how to fit in. Like many Christians who actually participate in sin, yet ignore it, they've learned how not to give themselves away. This is true of non-sin issues as well.
Christians seem to have a hard time requesting prayer for personal matters of any kind.
In calling believers to repentance in regard to homosexuality, we touch a group that doubts whether it will be dealt with in mercy, as God would, because there is little evidence that the Body is willing to be open in general about hidden areas of its lives. On a sin scale of 1 to 10, most of us hardly confess to sins that only rank a 1 or a 2. Heterosexual sin is rampant in the Body of Christ. Politically, there seems to be a much louder outcry about getting homosexual men and women out of the school system when, statistically, heterosexual teachers are as involved or more so in molesting students. There's a double standard that makes homosexual sin worse than heterosexual sin.