Because if he coiuld become straight, that would make life easier. Easier is not always better, however. Dealing with hardships can make you a better person. People who never faced any dounts about their sexuality do not understand how HARD it is to be gay, and assume the being gay is just the easy way out. Easy would be finding the first man I meet on the street, marry him, have kids, etc. It also would .proably litterally be that death of me. I tried the straight (and narrow? since when is homosexuality the path widely traveled?) path and the depression that ensued nearly wrecked my life. Everything suffered, including my relationship with God.
If you have never experienced what this is like, then you have a right to an opinion, but your opinion is just that - an opinion- and due to you lack of experience, carries little credence. If in my experience, I tell you I've tried "changing" my sexuality and it doesnt work, who then has the right to come and say its because I didnt try hard enough, didnt find the "right" program, didn't really want to change in the first place, etc. If I say in my personal experience, I never made a choice to be gay, that Im lying, and if I claim there is no history of abuse or neglect in my childhood, who still gets to blame my parents for being the "root cause" of my sexuality? If I tell you I know God and His voice in my life, that I understand the phenomena of a born-again Christian, that I pray and read the Bible and have that relationship no different than any other Christian, who has the right to tell me that I'm not a "real" Christian? That the one telling me I dont need to change is Satan? Who here is qualified to make such statements? Who gets to pick and choose who God really is going to save?
When Jesus spent his time on Earth, he wasn't in the churches of the time. He didnt give those religious people who condmned others for their sins any of his valuable time. He spent his time amoung those whom the religious found unfit for the Kingdom of God, whores and tax collectors and theives and adulters, children and widows and lepers. He said to those who found this association taboo that however you treat these of his children, so you treat Him. When he was with them, he didnt preach to them ~ He understood there was a time and plae for preaching, and a time for spending time with people, learning more about them, having some wine and loving on them. For the duration of his time on Earth HE CONDEMNED NOBODY, stating that there was a time and place where His Father would deal justly with all.
To live like Jesus lived is to follow that expample, that and no other. I dont care a flying flip about what Paul or the crazy man down the street has to say about anything if it conflicts this essential truth. If you believe the mistranslation of Pauls words, fine. Its your right. To live like Jesus however, is to understand the importance of loving that person first, to let no matter of of sin come between you and that person now matter how much you "hate the sin" to understand the boundries of when its appropriate to preach and when its not, and to understand no matter what you think about somebody, you do not understand their own relationship with God, you know nothing of it, and you do not know what will come when the day of judgement arrives, of anybody except yourself. Talk about the 'technicalities" of what judging really means aside, assuming in any case that a homosexual cannot really be a Christian, can not really have that personal relationship with Christ, can be "changed" and can not be saved, are well outside those boundries
(Original Air Date: 10/19/05) Sexual orientation used to be something kept hidden from family and co-workers, but now more and more people are "coming out" and finding acceptance. Anjela says her mother and sister don't support her sexual orientation, and feel she can't be Christian and gay at the same time. Can they reconcile this touchy issue? Then, two men debate whether a person can go from gay to straight, and parents of a 4-year-old boy fear their son's desire to play with dolls and wear heels means he'll grow up to be gay. Are they overreacting to his wishes to be a princess instead of a prince? Talk about gender and gay issues here.
