Gay men can't be cured, but they must still desist from gay sex!!

“Being gay can’t be cured … gay Christians will go to heaven … Just don’t have any kind of sex if you are gay.”Exodus International‘s Alan Chambers

If you are heterosexual male or female, what type of sex should you have? Straight sex of course.

If you are a homosexual male or female (and even the rabidly convulsed Vatican acknowledges that there are people who are nothing else but gay), what type of sex should you have?

Following the logic of the question, it should be … gay sex of course.

But we don’t live in logical times and Exodus International, the organization that has spent an entire generation, and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to prove that you can be cured of your homosexuality, is now trying to wriggle and writhe regarding precisely that question.

First a drum roll …. Exodus International has finally admitted that it is impossible to be cured of one’s homosexuality. We are who we are and our sexuality is what we are regardless of whether we run to Christian teaching,  marry women and/or have children. That has been confirmed by none other than Exodus’ current President, Alan Chambers, who has long insisted that he was cured of homosexuality and is happily married with children. By his own admission,  Alan Chambers has been living a lie albeit it with a wife and children to buttress the façade of being totally straight.

In fact, circumstances may exist, or may have existed in the past, which would reduce or remove the culpability of the individual [to be homosexual] in a given instance; or other circumstances may increase it. (On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, 1986)

Yes, that means that Alan Chambers has lived a hypocritical existence – by claiming that homosexuals can be cured of their feelings when his own supposedly cured homosexual hormones were raging uncontrollably deep within him.

Money quote:

Mr. Chambers … said that virtually every “ex-gay” he has ever met still harbors homosexual cravings, himself included. Mr. Chambers, who left the gay life to marry and have two children, said that gay Christians like himself faced a lifelong spiritual struggle to avoid sin and should not be afraid to admit it. He said Exodus could no longer condone reparative therapy, which blames homosexuality on emotional scars in childhood and claims to reshape the psyche. And in a theological departure that has caused the sharpest reaction from conservative pastors, Mr. Chambers said he believed that those who persist in homosexual behavior could still be saved by Christ and go to heaven. …“But we’ve been asking people with same-sex attractions to overcome something in a way that we don’t ask of anyone else,” he said, noting that Christians with other sins, whether heterosexual lust, pornography, pride or gluttony, do not receive the same blanket condemnations.         . 

Which brings one to the curious recommendation Chambers’ Exodus has for gay men and women: your homosexual feelings are sinful. Despite the fact that we don’t ask heterosexuals to forego their pleasures that we also deem sinful, you homosexuals should nonetheless not act on your [natural] gay feelings.

Really? Seriously?

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