Ex-Gay Backs Mohler: Homosexuality is a Sin
By Audrey Barrick
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Mar. 20 2007

In response to an evangelical leader's controversial article on the possibility of a biological marker on homosexuality, one ex-gay argues that homosexuality is already a changeable trait.

"The fact is homosexuality - having no scientific, biological basis whatsoever - is already a changeable trait without a patch or injection, one that I have personally received 14 years ago: Jesus Christ," said Stephen Bennett, founder of the pro-family Stephen Bennett Ministries, in a released statement.

Bennett was responding to a recent blog post written by the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, that was blasted by both Christians and homosexual advocates. The March 2 post that suggested homosexuality may be genetic in origin was seen as a challenge to conservative Christian belief that homosexuality is a matter of choice that can be overcome. And while opposed to genetic manipulations of all kinds, Mohler said if a hormone therapy were developed for fetuses that would help them be born straight rather than gay, he would support its use, according to Time magazine.

Bennett attributed the media storm over the blog post, which he says is based on pure speculation, questionable research and science fiction, to the premise that the reader could walk away with: "if someone is born a certain way, who are we to 'play God' and change nature?" the rest