« Go back a post || Return to G-A-Y homepage || Haul tail to next post »
07/08/2012
One of the most reprehensible 'advice' columns you'll ever read. For shame, Matt Moore
This "ex-gay" advice has the power to do real and lasting damage. It's shameful:
SNIP: The gay lifestyle is driven by sex, not love. But I didn’t realize that until God took me out of that lifestyle and placed me on the outside, so I could look in with clear eyes. Yeah, that’s right, God. The God I didn’t believe in. The God who never answered me when I prayed as a kid. I can’t fully explain in words how it happened, but now that I look back I can see that God was drawing me to Himself for a period of a few months. I didn’t know it, of course, I was just living my life how I wanted to and He was nowhere on my radar. But one day I just knew that I had to have Him, I had to know Him, I had to live for Him. I wanted to live for Him. So I began to.
So did God make me straight? Nope. He made me ALIVE. I still am attracted to men, but all of the sudden, things became so much bigger than my sexual preferences.
…
God wants you to value Him more than anything else in this life… and that may include your desire for a romantic relationship right now (if it’s a same-sex relationship you desire).
Dear Gay Kid [Christian Post blog] (H/t: Str8Grandmother)
As I wrote on Matt's site: I have been with my husband nine years, and he will be the only man in my life until the day that I die. I will spend at least a portion of every one of those days protecting LGBT kids from dangerous "advice" like this.
Oh, and look how this "ex-gay" voice closes out his post:
There are no words.