Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Albert Mohler: Reparative Therapy, Homosexuality, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Each U.S. presidential election cycle brings its own set of unexpected issues, and the 2012 race already offers one topic of controversy that truly sets it apart — a debate over forms of therapy that attempt to change an individual’s sexual orientation.

Known as reparative therapy or sexual orientation conversion therapy, these approaches seek to assist individuals in changing their sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. The cultural and political debate over reparative therapy emerged when a clinic run by Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, was accused of offering treatment and counseling intended to change sexual orientation.

Virtually all of the secular professions that deal with sexual orientation are stalwartly opposed to reparative therapy, or to any attempt to change one’s pattern of sexual attraction. Indeed, these groups hold to an inflexible ideology that insists that there is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality. These groups include, for example, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Social Workers, among many others. the rest
The normalization of homosexuality simply cannot be accepted by anyone committed to biblical Christianity. The new secular orthodoxy demands that Christians abandon the clear teachings of Scripture, and Christians must understand that the sinfulness of all homosexual behaviors is not only a matter of biblical authority, but also of the Gospel. To deny that sin is sin is to deny our need for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Christians cannot accept any teaching that minimizes sin, for it is the knowledge of our sin that points us to our need for atonement, salvation, and the forgiveness of that sin through the cross of Jesus Christ.

2 Comments:

At 9:27 AM, Anonymous Georgia said...

The response to the 'same-sex marriage' fiasco in NY State, by the Orthodox Bishop Michael was a beautiful explanation of 'the more excellent way' and why Christians cherish marriage and cannot accept the pansexual (LBGT, etc.) activists' counterfeits.
http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2011/06/bp-michael-oca-defends-traditional-marriage/

 
At 9:37 AM, Anonymous Confessor said...

The secular psychology/psychiatry world gave in to pansexual activists' pressure, actually terrorist tactics, accepted their so-called scientific studies defending homo/bi/etc. sexuality, which have been disproved to accept homo/bi/etc sexual activity as normal and healthy when it is not. Scripture and science (honest science) as well as police, CDC statistics agree that it is a harmful lifestyle and practice. To deny this is to deny reality.

Dr. Robert Spitzer who was involved in the APA decision in 1973, has recanted his position and now accepts that reparative therapy is promising. Studies show it is helpful, even if not completed, in reducing depression, addiction/compulsion and other correlated problems that are frequently concurrent with same-sex attraction.

 

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