Tuesday 13 November 2012

Can God Cure Gays?

I was recently asked if I believe that God can cure homosexuality.  I am assuming the question meant, can "God make a homosexual, heterosexual?"

Yes.  I believe God can do that - with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).

By the same token, I believe that God can make the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk!  The question is not "what can God do?"  The question is, "what is God doing?"  And what does this tell us about how God views blind, deaf, lame and gay people?

Lots of research says that ex-gay ministries and reparative therapy does not work.  At best it persuades bisexuals to take opposite sex partners, and teaches homosexuals to suppress their sexuality.  At worst it instills a sense of shame which often results in promiscuity (as that's the only outlet for intimacy with another person when you can't allow yourself to fall in love - second rate, detached, emotionally empty sex).

In his book, "Speaking my Mind", Tony Campolo says that after interviewing hundreds of men who have been through reparative therapy, he is convinced that God is not "curing" homosexuality.

Of course the whole question assumes that there is something to cure.  I've said elsewhere that a Biblical understanding of homosexuality totally negates the question of curing it.  God is not, and has never been bothered by loving, faithful same sex relationships.

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