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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

NO NONSENSE!

Sigh...I wasn't even going to comment on this, but enough people have asked me about it that I guess I will, and then I will be done with it...

The vid of the young man being "delivered" from homosexuality at a recent COGIC meeting that is currently circulating on FB is so sad and ludicrous that it doesn't even merit commentary, but it is in fact part of the reason that I wrote the post on Neuroplasticity on one of my blogs (http://jimswilleyblog.blogspot.com/…/ive-been-readingstudyi…)...


Bottom line is this kind of nonsense is ultimately coming to an end, and these kinds of occurrences only help to show how ridiculous the notion of changing a person's sexual orientation actually is...there are much bigger problems in the world that need to be dealt with, and church people and people in government who are on the wrong side of this issue need to stop wasting their time on obsessing over trying to change what doesn't need to be changed...

I've already written a book about this, so I don't want to repeat myself, but I will say again that same-sex attraction isn't a demon...it's not a choice...it's not a "lifestyle"...the world isn't turning gay...there is no gay agenda...gay people are not anti-family...heterosexuality is alive and well, and shows no signs of going away...those of us from a Scriptural background already read the things Moses and Paul said, and we don't relate to them any more than any straight person does...Jesus never said anything about gay people, and He never wasted His time trying to get any of them "delivered"...in fact, if you really understand the story about the Roman Centurion and his relationship with his servant, and the way Jesus responded to the man's request for the servant's healing, you already know where Jesus was on the subject...

I so loved the things that Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said about being proud of who he is when he came out, recently...makes me enjoy using my Mac even more than I already did...I add my voice to his in saying that I am also proud of who I am, and am in good company with Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tchaikovsky, James Baldwin, Katharine Lee Bates, King James, and a host of other brilliant and creative people who have given so much to the world...

I do feel badly for the young man in the video who got caught up in the religious fervor of the moment, and said what the people in that room wanted him to say...we should keep him in our prayers, and learn from his example to not allow that kind of spectacle to happen again...

That is all...

15 comments:

  1. Joshua Levi Lester said...

    Nice

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  2. Eddie William Sellers said...

    I saw where people played it on facebook to laugh at, it made my heart sad for him, but even more sad for people on stage, I got the sense that most of the people in the seats felt sad for all of them them, it was a weird energy.

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  3. Mark Alan Fout said...

    Thank you for your words of Life, Jim!...I must say at this point in my life I believe that being a gay man is a special blessing...I don't want to sound like I'm "tooting my own horn", but just look at all of the talent that is readily apparent in so many...emotional and spiritual sensitivity, etc...we are truly blessed!

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  4. Herb Wright said...

    Presented and spoken extremely well as usual. It is interesting that there are so many who consider themselves authorities about Gay being a choice when they know absolutely nothing about all of that. Being at peace with God is far more important and rewarding than to be waving a banner with holes in it!

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  5. Aubrey Gallimore said...

    I hate the fact that you were bombarded with questions on have you seen it. I hate the fact you felt the need to reply. But as normal your reply was noteworthy.

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  6. Aubrey Gallimore said...

    Your famous words :-)

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  7. Todd Wade said...

    His life won't be the same after that unfortunately.....sad..really sad....

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  8. Rachel Pennington said...

    'Nuff said.

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  9. A James Collins said...

    We (the church) need to grow up & learn to Njoy Life!

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  10. Tamara Anne Murphy said...

    I love your courage and the doors it opens for so many

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  11. Ed Jarnagin said...

    Very well said!

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  12. Jere Luck said...

    Amen!

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  13. Gina Hay Bryan said...

    Beautifully stated. Thank you for being authentically you; we should all strive to be the beautiful, glorious, unique creations He intended us to be.

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