I thought he was making an analogy.
I assume you know what an analogy is.
You make a point by substituting one thing for another to make your point.
He could better have explained that just as you need to educate a barbarian, because you can’t just let him remain in his barbarity, so you also need to reform homosexual behavior rather than leave the person to their own devices as though it should be fixed behavior forever.
That’s what I get from it, but even if he did say that, so what? If individuals came to him for counselling voluntarily and he didn’t force anyone to undergo his brand of counselling, again, so what if that was his belief?
But what I see in it is an analogy.
And that has what to do with Michele Bachmann’s candidacy?
We have a President whose wife said “this is the first time in my life I’ve been proud of my country” and that “America is a downright mean country in 2008”, and whose “pastoral mentor” for twenty years railed against whitey and the jews and after 9-11 said “G-D America” and “America’s chickens have come home to roost”.
That was my impression also.
Granted I just skimmed the article (I usually just zip to the responses ... like now), but I thought he was just holding up educating barbarians as an analogy of how we need to educate people who don't know any better. Western society keeps denying the concept of sin, and media keeps projecting the idea that homosexuality is 'normal', and that it should be celebrated. This is teaching the people to become barbarians. No longer governed by God's laws, nor in reverent fear of His Name and presence.
I.e., society has become the person described in Psalm 14:1 'The fool has said in their heart that there is no God'...
I.e., we are brainwashed in the public schools and by the media to become fools and barbarians.