A Journey from a Homosexual Lifestyle to Christ
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This is an article from a 'former' lesbian who found Jesus. A few interesting comments triggered this seed. This seems like a worthy discussion:
Jesus Christ drew me to Himself in 1999. I broke up with my partner because I was convicted that living as a lesbian was a sin and so put me outside of the kingdom of God, but my heart was a mess.
It may surprise some readers, but conversion to Christ did not initially change my attraction for other women.
Indeed, I was not converted out of homosexuality; I was converted out of unbelief. Suddenly, my mind was on fire for the Bible and I could not read enough of it or enough about it.
But if I was a true believer, why did my flesh crave what God abhorred?
If I was lesbian enough to go to hell for my unrepentant sin, or if I had been fornicator enough to be cast into hell for heterosexual sin, then I am still lesbian and fornicator enough to share with you what it means for me to submit my desires to Christ each day so that, by his grace alone, I can be obedient to Him.
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Conflicted?
Religion tends to do that.
Sad.
Sad that someone can be led by religion to hate what they are, because they believe their god hates it, even though they also believe that he made them as they are.
Sad was going to be my key word but I decided to go with conflicted.
Conflicted works, too.
I'm confused.......
Why do people always talk in riddles when they are talking about religion?
My thoughts: Whose to say why people make huge life changes. The question is did it bring her peace and happiness.
Plausible deniability.
A behavioral change is probably the most she ever could expect but she seems much diminished as a person to go from being a full professor to identifying merely as a "full-time mother and pastor’s wife".
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Unless she's just bisexual, presumably it also brought a higher risk for suicide and other self-destructive behavior. But her condemning words against marriage equality and against the civil rights of LGBT folks speak volumes about her real psychopathology.
If Christians believe that God made people in his image then why are these people being taught to be ashamed of who they are?
If the world were suddenly to wake up one morning with no recollection of religion ( the Bible, Koran, Torah )
how would we treat one another?
Smdh
I guess if people are that clueless about morality then it might be a good thing for the rest of us that religion exists to keep unthinking people in check. The rest of us know that we treat others as we want them to treat us.
Imagine an alternate reality where heterosexuality was believed to be a 'sin' based on an ancient book that is inexplicably considered divine by the majority of people on the planet. Imagine then being so concerned with being 'wrong' that you conform / submit and settle down with someone of your same gender. Not sure that any amount of religious devotion will change your orientation but it seems inevitable that you will be conflicted on a daily basis.
Imagine trying to convince yourself everyday that you really are happy being homosexual because that is what God wants of you ... or so people tell you.
The Star Trek TNG episode "The Outcast" explored that, more or less. In a society where androgyny was the accepted "norm", it was illegal to identify as either male or female, and explore heterosexual love. It was obvious to anyone watching that the episode was about homosexuality, disguised so that it would actually be allowed to air.
Since the uproar about Kirk and Uhura (sp) kissing, more and more subjects once taboo aired in later spin offs. I don't think they hid the homosexual connotation in that particular episode. I think they left it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions. That episode was one of my favorites, second only to Data and Lt Yar knocking boots.
I guess I would say it was hidden in plain sight. Those who watched Trek because it was scifi rather than because it was social commentary may well have missed it, although they would have had to be obtuse. There was just that tiny bit of plausible deniability - homosexuality wasn't explicitly mentioned, and Uhura and Kirk weren't acting on their own free wills. I'm not sure either episode would have aired if they'd been more in-your-face.
IMHO, the best take-away from this article is that one should never take advice on sexuality from someone who clearly has problems with sexuality... and who makes a nice living talking about them...
This was one of the folks giving "religious" advice on sexuality:
The worst kind of betrayal...