Is it possible to be a gay Christian?

[Purplundy]

You don't feel that a book full of rules, with stories full of people either following or ignoring those rules- expressing the consequences thereof - is a rule book, or meant to be "followed" as-such?

If the Bible was simply about telling people what to do, then it wouldn't try to explain who God is or what God does.
And even at that, the Bible as a rule book would just be the Torah—all written down by one person or group at one point in time, and lacking contradiction.