Christians Now Convert the Gays As Well!

September 25, 2007 11:00 am     Posted in Buzz, News, Sex  Candy -- NYU g+ page

gay marriageToday, being gay is not such a taboo. But in the utopian Christian world, being gay is still unacceptable.


By Candy

As a former bible toting, God-loving Christian, I can easily say that converts are whole-heartedly welcomed and celebrated in the church. But now, there is another type of conversion, a conversion from “straight” to gay to “straight” again that is also being welcomed and accepted.

This “conversion therapy” is really behavior modification or simply put, brainwashing.

From the article on ABC News, it sounds much like the movie So You Want to Be a Cheerleader except in real life (and maybe slightly less creepy…remember those outfits??). Making someone participate in so-called straight male activities like football banter with the guys or automobile maintenance aren’t any way to change their inherent attraction to one sex or another.

James Serra attended Love In Action, the largest gay “rehab” located in Tennessee. He spent THREE YEARS in the program and is now a counselor.

Serra said that he sees homosexuality as a behavior, a choice. Although he is still attracted to men, he has not acted on his feelings for eight years. He hasn’t been with a woman either.

I hate to break it to this guy, but that isn’t conversion, that’s a really long sex drought.

As a reformed, and now much cooler and accepting Christian, I have a problem with the church trying to convert their gay population into a “straight population” because it is not going along with the message that Jesus (you know, that slightly important religious figure) tried so hard to preach: God loves everyone.

This does not exclude the vagabonds, the sex workers, the child molesters, the gays or the plain old sinners like myself. It is an all-inclusive club that everyone is invited to and no one is turned away at the door.

Perhaps it is my distaste for organized religion in general that makes me feel so bitter about these so-called “converts.”

I also have more than a few lesbian friends who are openly gay, active in the church and live in the South.

It gives me hope that not all Christians are crazy.

7 Comments on "Christians Now Convert the Gays As Well!"

  1. Christine says:
    Tue, 25th Sep 20076:29 am 

    Bah! I hate some people. I would love for someone to give me one GOOD reason, other than something in the fucking Bible, as to why homosexuality is wrong. And I'm fairly certain they wouldn't be able to come up with jack shit.

  2. J says:
    Tue, 25th Sep 20077:24 am 

    Sure, I believe that Jesus loves everyone, but I don't see why it would be a surprise that the church would want to prohibit a lifestyle that it would find morally corrupt.

    Maybe the church is guilty of not speaking out against other sins such as drunkenness, greed, and being self-centered.

    And frankly, I don't see why Christians would need any other reason than what's in the Bible to not agree with homosexuality…fornication, adultery, bestiality, etc.

  3. mark snyder says:
    Fri, 28th Sep 20076:40 am 

    Imagine having a mother like the nationally infamous Amy Contrada who works with Brian Camanker and was slammed on the Daily Show. She is holding an anti-gay forum to protest the Laramie Project even though her own daughter is starring in it!

    http://queertoday.blogspot.com/2007/09/exclusive-…

  4. Ashley says:
    Fri, 28th Sep 20079:32 am 

    Ohhhh, J. Do elaborate on the connection between homosexuality and bestiality. Puh-leasssse?

  5. Sarah says:
    Sun, 30th Sep 20076:28 pm 

    J was simply saying that like homesexuality the Bible does not agree with "…fornication, adultery, bestiality, etc." It was never implied that there was a connection between homesexuality and the quoted actions.

  6. Rochelle says:
    Thu, 11th Oct 20072:39 pm 

    Chipping off the tip of the iceburg is always a slippery slope…

    True that most mainstream "Christianese" is pitiful, like the attempt to thwart sodomism out of an individual by engaging in the standard manly activities. However, to get to the heart of a situation and truly have a heart like Jesus to help people drowning in sin is what being a Christian should be about.

    Regardless of the thrashing that will probably follow my post, sodomism is not about love, but about perverting God's intentions for marrige, love, and family. Satan has done his best to provide a counterfeit for all of God's ideals and creations, and when the wide spread delusion that homosexuality is good and right, just because it is culturally accepted, he has succeeded. Accepting this as a Christian doesn't make the author of this post "more loving", just lukewarm.

  7. T says:
    Sun, 11th May 200810:57 pm 

    Firstly, thanks for sticking up for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual) people in this world. I think there is enough stigma attached to being gay without the problem of religion too. I run an LGBT group at my uni, and we have freshermans stalls, where we have lots of leaflets, and one of the most popular, is one that talks about being LGBT and Christian, and we have a local church that runs LGBT days and things.

    What I've always wanted to know is, why does God supposedly condemn those who are 'made' by him?! If we are what God made us, then surely we should accept everyone for who they are?! Including Gays?

    That's my little vent for the day.

    PS. It's "But I'm a cheerleader", not I wana be a chearleader lol.

    T

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