Former Lesbian Discusses Life-Changing Experience; Woman Says God Delivered Her From Homosexuality

Austin American-Statesman ^ | 2/16/03 | Eileen E. Flynn

[marshmallow]

Teresa Britton didn't seek God. He came to her, she said.

The 40-year-old Leander resident said the Lord delivered her from homosexuality 2 1/2 years ago.

Raised Baptist in San Antonio, Britton attended Sunday school but "never got plugged into church." Faith became less relevant to her as she grew older. By her senior year in high school, Britton was frequenting gay bars in search of a relationship.

She wanted lasting love with a woman, she said, but it always eluded her.

Her most recent relationship lasted nearly four years. Then her partner left, and Britton's life unraveled. For 10 months, she sealed herself off from the world, depending on cigarettes and alcohol. Even when she began to move on and started attending church with a roommate, Britton said she still lacked peace of mind.

One night she was crying in bed when she felt God touch her, she said.

"The next thing I knew I was on the floor in a fetal position," she said. "Within that instant, all the lies that I ever believed and all the grays of my life became black and white. The truth had been revealed to me, and I knew the way I was living was wrong."

The lies, Britton said, were the notions that she was born gay and couldn't change. It was God's grace, she said, that allowed her the clarity to understand why she had sought romantic relationships with women.

Britton traced her lesbianism to an alcoholic, physically abusive father. She remembered witnessing her mother being beaten and the words she silently screamed inside.

"I will never, ever let a man treat me like that," Britton recalled thinking. "If that's what a man was all about, why would I want to be with one?"

In September 2000, a month after what she described as an encounter with God, Britton turned her life over to Christ, and she said she was saved at PromiseLand Church, the Pentecostal congregation with which she had begun worshipping.

Unlike some former homosexuals who sought therapy to overcome their same-sex desires, Britton said she never saw a psychologist.

"This whole thing has just been an act of God," she said.

Britton added that she would have been happy simply to leave her life as a lesbian behind her and remain celibate.

But she now finds herself attracted to men and believes she will get married.

"These people at this church are awesome," she said, smiling at her pastor, the Rev. Randy Phillips. Without the church, she said, "I would probably still be bouncing from one relationship to another. I would be on the road to destruction instead of the road to life."

Last year she found the woman who broke her heart and discovered she had also devoted herself to God. The two reconciled and are now friends.

"She's straight, and I'm straight, and there's no more crooked paths between us," Britton said with a laugh. "That was also a gift from God."

[twntaipan]

Hard to believe this was printed in the Austin (anti)American-Statesman.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I have very good neighbors next door that are a lesbian couple. My prayer is for their enlightenment through Christ. I cannot judge them for sexual sin, as I have had sexual sin in my life, and I cannot condone their lifestyle.(same as I cannot condone the lifestyle of a heterosexual couple living together outside of marriage) But I can still love them and pray for them.

Thank you for posting this.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Good for you. They do need enlightenment and they're not going to be argued into enlightenment. Only Christ can reveal the truth to them and help them see the lies that have held them captive.

Incidentally, until December I had a boss who was a lesbian. I know that she attended Wheaton College, a conservative Christian college, so it seems a little incongruous. When I asked her how she ended up there, she kind of laughed it off and said it was a "long story." I really wonder.

[eno_]

Most lesbians I knew in college were converted by meeting a handsome and prosperous Ivy alum. But hey, if Jesus wants to get in the game, too, that's cool with me.

[muawiyah]

Hey, once you become an expert in "sexual" or any other sin, you most certainly can criticize others for such indulgence.

For one thing you recognize it. You also understand the consequences. Failure to witness, even if it were to be perceived as mere judgment, would be yet another category of sin.

[steveo]

Hey, I likes wemmen!

[Gritty]

If homosexuality were a genetic trait like skin color, no amount of "intervention" could have saved her from lesbianism.

Of course, the cynics would probably say she was never "truly" a lesbian.

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[babaloo999]

That's probably exactly what they'll say. She will be extremely hated in Austin and Houston.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Oh, I do witness, trust me, and they love me for my candor.

When the mother of one of them passed away, her girlfriend asked me to call and pray with her.(the one who lost her Mom)

After praying with her on the phone, she asked an interesting question; Why will the church, and God, not accept our relaionship? Is love wrong?

I had prayed myself with the Lord before calling, wanting to be His servant, not the prejudiced, intollerant, very human rightwinger that is me.

The answer rolled off my tongue without me thinking;
"It is not your love that the Lord and the church have a problem with, it's only your sexual relationship."

This was met by silence for about 30 seconds, then she thanked me for calling and "being there" for her.

This was two years ago, and we are still close friends. My wife and I pray for them, my church prays for them. They even attend our church dramas when our son appears in them. They come to our church festivals to hear my Christian country band, and one of them came to church one Sunday with us. My pastor did not know she would be there, and at the time did not know she was a lesbian, so it was not planned that he had about a five minute section in that day's sermon dennouncing homosexuality.(not that he would hold back or lay it on thicker because of her presence)

I'm going to keep being friends with them, answer their questions when they ask them, and keep praying for them.
I love them.

[Tall_Texan]

Hard to believe this was printed in the Austin (anti)American-Statesman.

That was my first reaction too. The only time the Statesman portrays religion in a good light is when they get some heretic to tell us that sin (abortion and homosexuality, mostly) is actually good and that God approves.

How did they let this bit of liberal apostasy slip through?

[scripter]

Good news for once on this issue. Thanks for the ping.

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[First Amendment]

This is a nice concidence - today I got a phone call from an acquaintance I haven't seen for a long time. For some reason she told me the story of a man she and her husband got to know who, in the last couple of years, overcame his homosexuality as well as alcohol and drug abuse through a relationship with God. My friend has small meditation and prayer meetings at her house, and this man started attending, and he underwent a complete change of heart and life.

God works wonders!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Britton traced her lesbianism to an alcoholic, physically abusive father. She remembered witnessing her mother being beaten and the words she silently screamed inside.

"I will never, ever let a man treat me like that," Britton recalled thinking. "If that's what a man was all about, why would I want to be with one?"

I'm sure this is the main cause of why many lesbians had turned to lesbianism in the first place.

[Clint N. Suhks]

The lies, Britton said, were the notions that she was born gay and couldn't change.

The APA believes in “notions” instead of science, it’s NOT unusual that their “big lie” has taken root in place of truth. God helps those who help themselves.

[L.N. Smithee]

As those on the ping list know, the gay activists use as a strategy intimidating mainstream media outlets into telling only their side of the story. It looks like the tables have turned.

It will be interesting to see how shrill the response to this article will be.

[A. Pole]

If homosexuality were a genetic trait like skin color, no amount of "intervention" could have saved her from lesbianism. Of course, the cynics would probably say she was never "truly" a lesbian.

What is to be a "lesbian"? It is a label applied to a woman addicted to mutual masturbation with another woman. Sinful? - yes, special? - not really. It is possible to be freed from sinful addiction.

[mombonn]

I saw a vanity license plate a couple of days ago here in MI. It said LSBNLVR. I gasped, my husband didn't understand why. I didn't tell him. I still hope my first reaction was wrong.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

This is a wonderful story with that undeniable ring of truth. Praise The Lord!

With God all things are possible!