Posted on 10/30/2014 8:53:59 PM PDT by oohebo
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore denounced reparative therapy at a conference here, saying the controversial treatment that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation has been “severely counterproductive.”
Moore, who serves as president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, spoke to a group of journalists Tuesday (Oct. 28) covering the group’s national conference.
“The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you’re going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you’re struggling with, I don’t think that’s a Christian idea,” Moore told journalists. “Faithfulness to Christ means obedience to Christ. It does not necessarily mean that someone’s attractions are going to change.”
Moore said evangelicals had an “inadequate view” of what same-sex attraction looks like.
“The Bible doesn’t promise us freedom from temptation,” Moore said. “The Bible promises us the power of the spirit to walk through temptation.”
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They want to do therapy on ex-gays now?
Homosexuality is an abomination according to the Bible (Leviticus 20:13).
Maybe the Southern Baptists need a new guy at the top, although it doesn’t matter since the SBC has no control over local members.
“California and New Jersey have passed laws banning conversion therapy for minors”
When it’s abortion, the liberals talk about a sacrosanct doctor-patient relationship. When it’s reparative therapy, they have the State come in between the doctor and patient and say, you can’t talk about that.
The Great Apostasy continues to swallow up churches.
Read Leviticus
Freepers should read the article. A lot of us have been concerned about this Russell Moore fellow who is chair of the SBC Religion-Ethics Committee in Nashville and has been on the job for ~ 1 year. Can’t say I disagree that same-sex attraction will just go away with therapy. Moore is calling on those afflicted to resist temptation and go celibate. He is also saying that parents should not abandon their teens who self-identify with same-sex attraction.
That is crazy, mischaracterized, and unhelpful. Someone needs to replace him. We have seen over and over that denominations weaken one small stupid step at a time.
Therapy has helped many people. Alcoholics don’t give up alcohol easily either. Addictions and bad habits of the mind and body can be hard to let go of, but his comments mischaracterize the treatment and are not helpful. They are a step toward weakening the SBC position whether persons next to him who like him want to admit it or not.
The hyperbolic headline does not match the article.
Saying you don’t think that is a Christian idea is counter productive to your follow on thought:
“The Bible doesn’t promise us freedom from temptation,” Moore said. “The Bible promises us the power of the spirit to walk through temptation.”
Being a recovering alcoholic doesn’t mean that temptation isn’t still there.
It is for a good many, while others rid themselves of that former life, not wanting to relive the experience, on the one hand and on other seeing their lives as something greater, without it.
Agreed.
This douchebag is also pro-amnesty, and has aligned himself with the panoply of Soros sock puppets to fight for it. Baptists needs to force him out.
Put in mind that it often takes multiple times to see significant progress for alcoholics as well. I also agree with the point about mischaracterization. Part of becoming celibate is about developing a decent amount of self-control.
They still had the temptation, but didn’t act on it. Thoughts precede actions, turning your thoughts to God and Christ turn your actions to them as well.
Try quitting smoking.
Not all.
I think Moore is secretly “gay.”
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