Quote From: tulseyjoeI see that you mix up human traits that are learned and/or acquired with sexual orientation, which can neither be learned nor aquired. One has absolutely no control over one's sexual orientation.
You cannot give up to God your being a heterosexual, a bisexual, or a homosexual, especially when your sexual orientation is apparently a part of God's design for you, just like hair color, eye color and which hand you prefer to use are His design for you, too. If you have green eyes and everyone else around you have brown and/or blue eyes, and you give those green eyes up to God, will God make your eyes either brown or blue? Of course NOT!!!!!!
David, the ex-prostitute turned priest, attempted to use his fromer professional promiscuity of selling sexual services and his former drug and alcohol addiction as part of the reason that he was no longer a homosexual. If you read his testimony on Exodus International's website, all of you who know how to use your brain power to think will see that he was NEVER homosexual in the first place.
Exodus International people like to use David's kind of testimony because it supports all of their stereotypical garbage of what makes a person a homosexual.
One doe NOT have a tendency (aka propensity) to be homosexual, like one who is the child or grandchild in a family where there is a history of alcohol abuse and that child (minor age or adult) has a propensity/tendency to be an alcoholic, too, if he (or she) starts drinking alcohol.
If the child born into a family with a history of alcoholism, but, no one even drinks alcoholic beverages around him and he does not even know what it is, he will not have a desire to open a bottle of beer if he sees one or have a desire to taste what is in an open container of alcholic beverage or it being in a glass, etc. If those who have a tendency to be an alcoholic never know what alcoholic beverages are, they will never crave an alcoholic beverage.
One whose sexual orientation is exclusively homosexual can experience those down-below-the-belt, behind the pubic-bone, in-the-area-of-prostate (for males or the uterus for females) physiological sexual attraction sensations toward a member of the same sex, even when the person is not even thinking about sex or knows what sex is, for that matter.
I see human traits as inherent because I recall being attracted to girls from day one. I recall never being accustomed to monogamy. My wife is not someone that I am completely physically attracted to but I made a commitment to her and because of God I honor that commitment.
The point is you handle what God has givien you the best you can. If you are trying to please God then awesome. If not then do the best you can to please him. I'm not necessarily saying you are wrong but that God will answer that when the time comes. That answer is between the two of you and no one else.
(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.
