Why would he have engaged in reparative therapy? That’s for the people who have the problem, not the pastor?
Remember, having homosexual feelings is not a sin, in the sense that all of us sin, and all of us have a fallen nature that makes us desire various sinful actions.
Our calling is not to engage in sinful acts. You know, there was a time when we actually married people off to strangers, and somehow they learned to “love” each other after time. People have a remarkable ability to become attached to those who they are not immediately drawn to sexually.
But nowadays, we have been trained by culture that we are supposed to “marry” the person who makes us “hot”, who we can’t resist.
But we are called to resist all sorts of things. If you can’t find a woman who will have sex with you, you are expected not to have sex, so why is it so hard to live by the rule that even if you are sexually attracted to another guy, that doesn’t mean you HAVE to become sexually active with them.
I imagine if the son was not gay, but had decided he really loved a girl who was not a christian, and who didn’t accept marriage, that this guy would have eventually decided that the church view on unequal yoking and on being married before sex were also no longer operative.
Because nobody wants to think their kids are living in sin. But sadly, too many pastors have decided that God is powerless in our lives anymore, and therefore simply can’t believe that God would have the capability to give the grace necessary for people to bear the burdens they are given.
One can only imagine how St. Paul would be treated in the modern society.
The same way he was in his own. Times change, humanity never changes.
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Why would he have engaged in reparative therapy? That’s for the people who have the problem, not the pastor?
Perhaps the wording is confusing, but I interpreted Cortez's remark that he felt he would have destroyed his son by enrolling him in reparative therapy to overcome his son'a gayness.
No matter really, the whole article is about a morally sick reprobate homo father leading not only his congregation astray, but even more so, his own 15 yr old son
‘One can only imagine how St. Paul would be treated in the modern society.’
Or John The Baptist. He would be vilified for his “intolerance” of Herod Antipas’ adulterous and incestuous lifestyle.