Speaking about gay debates, Look what I found on Google Ads!
Here's a little story I will share with you, my audience. Hear! Hear! User Voltaire le Philosophe was going through the EMM, checking threads about gay marriage, when he looked to a small line of text on his screen. And "Click", because he was curious!
I first became aware of how much I despised homosexuality when I worked at a savings and loan in 1981. Don [not his real name], referred to as a "queer" in our small town, shoved his savings passbook across the counter for a large cash withdrawal. He glanced over his shoulder and spoke to his companion, a good-looking boy of about eighteen. The boy laughed and his eyes met mine, full of mockery and challenge. I swallowed hard and shuddered, then handed Don the wad of bills, and they walked out arm-in-arm.
At home that night, I described the incident to my family in a voice tinged with disgust. "Thank God there's none of that in our family."[...]Then, on January 3, 1992, an emotional earthquake shattered my world. The pages of Tim's letter trembled in my hand as I read: "My sexual orientation has bothered me since I was twelve. Please, Mom, listen to me. I feel a strong attraction for men. I understand how you must feel . …"After Tim's letter in 1992, I regarded my adult son as a victim. "They" had caught and trapped him. "They" were faceless, nameless, evil people. Homosexuals. Enemies.The change in my attitude toward homosexuals was tested in my workplace where some of my colleagues apparently are gay or bisexual; I no longer avoid them. They're real people, just like me. The Lord's softened my heart, and I've learned to hate the sin while I love, or at least care for, the sinner.Source: "Today's Christian Women"My heart still hurts. My son's life is far from happy, his future uncertain. The New King James version of Psalms 56:8 says God puts my tears in his bottle. My hope rests with the Lord. "They will return from the land of the enemy [Satan] . …Your children will return to their own land" (Jer. 31:16-17). In the meantime, God has called me to pray for and love Tim, and to be available.
And having good laugh through these pages, I found the link to a "gay rehab" society, Exodus International. Look at what they say in the first page, "Freedom is Possible!".
The obsession that Conservative Christians have for gays is quite idiotic to say the least, making all that a very entertaining read for a good laugh, watching, as the woman in question goes in transition from "bigoted hate" to "bigoted pity" in her own story. But it is tragic, nevertheless, for people that prefer tradition use old and anachronic moral laws to suppress people from their true feelings, in the disguise of "freedom from sin". It is completely absurd and repressive that assuming your true identity in the eyes of the word and giving voice to your true feelings is bad, a "sin", for the person who doesn't "sin" is one that follows, in an almost machine-like manner, the laws of a Bronze Age Text put in a pedestal it doesn't deserve.
BTW, I'm not gay.
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