http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/11/14/bring-on-the-ex-ex-gay-movement/ when faith like a child isn't enough Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/11/14/bring-on-the-ex-ex-gay-movement/#comment-679 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:46:00 +0000 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/11/14/bring-on-the-ex-ex-gay-movement/#comment-679 I think people tend to oversimplify homosexuality all the way around. I don't think human sexuality is as simple as you're gay or you aren't. There's a spectrum of behaviour here. I know a guy who used to be gay. Now he's not. Does that mean God cured him? I have no idea. Maybe he still fantasizes about having sex with men while he's having sex with his wife. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he struggles. Maybe he doesn't. Most people don't seem to be able to change their orientation though. Beyond that, there was no category in the Bible for monogamous same-sex relationships. Nor was homosexuality thought of then as an identity issue. Now it is. Those things change everything. I think people tend to oversimplify homosexuality all the way around. I don’t think human sexuality is as simple as you’re gay or you aren’t. There’s a spectrum of behaviour here. I know a guy who used to be gay. Now he’s not. Does that mean God cured him? I have no idea. Maybe he still fantasizes about having sex with men while he’s having sex with his wife. Maybe he doesn’t. Maybe he struggles. Maybe he doesn’t. Most people don’t seem to be able to change their orientation though. Beyond that, there was no category in the Bible for monogamous same-sex relationships. Nor was homosexuality thought of then as an identity issue. Now it is. Those things change everything.

]]> http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/11/14/bring-on-the-ex-ex-gay-movement/#comment-678 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:57:27 +0000 http://www.steeplesandpeople.com/blog/2006/11/14/bring-on-the-ex-ex-gay-movement/#comment-678 And what's up with these supposedly "cured" drug addicts who relapse? If Jesus can't make me stop doing something entirely, then obviously either what I'm doing is fine, or Jesus ain't all he's cracked up to be. And what’s up with these supposedly “cured” drug addicts who relapse? If Jesus can’t make me stop doing something entirely, then obviously either what I’m doing is fine, or Jesus ain’t all he’s cracked up to be.

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