The Fellowship of Christian Athletes

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and the ex gays. http://www.sharingthevictory.com/06archives/april/_alternative.html

I started to have same-sex attractions when I was 11 or 12 years old.I would have crushes on women or girls that would turn into obsessions. During high school, I had a best girlfriend, and for the first time in my life I felt loved and appreciated for who I was. It was great. Suddenly my life
was completely transformed. Finally, it had meaning.

So I didn’t care when my mom sat me down and told me that she and my dad were getting a divorce. But I did care when my mom sat me down and asked me if my friend and I were having a homosexual relationship. I was devastated. How could my mom think that of me? But I had to admit to myself that deep down inside I wished we were having a homosexual relationship because then she would never leave me, and I would always feel the way I did then.

After high school, I attended the University of California at Irvine. I excelled academically, was president of my sorority pledge class and editor-in-chief of the yearbook my freshman year, yet I still felt empty and unfulfilled. My dissatisfaction with life was starting to get to me. I needed a
change, so I applied for the University of California’s Education Abroad Program at the University of Delhi in India so I could study Hinduism and Buddhism for a year. I thought that maybe I could find some meaning to life.


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Schneider retired from Family Research Counsel in 2001 and is currently a stay-at-home mom for her two girls. With the help of her husband, she leads Living in Victory Ministries to reach those dealing with homosexuality. Schneider continues to share her story of redemption with many churches, high schools, colleges and FCA/AIA conferences. You can reach Schneider at [e-mail] or purchase her book Bridging the Gap at www.regenbooks.org. For speaking engagements visit www.exodus-international.org.
During my time in India I befriended my Hindi teacher. After several months the relationship became physical at her initiation. The next day I was horrified by what I had done. This couldn’t be who I was. I spent the day walking through the foothills of the Himalayas. From where I was, I could see the majestic snow-covered peaks up above and a tiny ribbon of water below that was the Jammu River. I felt so small and insignificant in comparison. But at the same time, I was consumed with inner turmoil. I didn’t want to identify myself as a lesbian. But I was feeling loved and appreciated by this woman, and I couldn’t walk away from that. Somehow I had to reconcile the fact that I thought homosexuality was wrong with the fact that I was getting my emotional needs met through a homosexual relationship.

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For the unitiated the FCA is an organization which got its start on college campuses and has since moved to high school campuses. Most schools have chapters of this group and it meets like any other club. I have to say that the last thing gay high school students need is a club encouraging high school athletes to be more homophobic. I am not terribly familiar with this organization so I don't know if this is usual fare for them or not. Either way we should know.

[msongs]

1. non-christian athletes are going to hell when they die* - that answer your

question?


*source = southern baptist church of America

Msongs
www.msongs.com/impeachbush.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. All I can say is

the bit about her "Hindi" teacher sounds very fake to me, unless by that term she meant a woman teaching her the language of Hindi. If it was supposed to be a spiritual teacher, it's likely bunk. Number one, in Hinduism, the teacher would either be a guru or a swami, and neither would be very likely to hit on a student, since that sort of thing is severely frowned upon (many swamis take a vow of celebacy).

[NewInNewJ.]

3. Our Son was a member of FCA back in the early 90's

while in High School. I am a Christian, but was very upset when the Basketball Coach made it a requirement for all the team to belong to this group or be dropped from the team. Our son was a very good player, but I approached the Coach and the School Board about this requirement. The Board did not know about the Coach's requirements, and told him to drop this requirement. Son, didn't play much from that point on, until my husband and I led a movement to replace the Coach. Eventually the Coach was replaced and FCA continued but only as an elective. I lived in Tenn. at the time and thankfully we did have an open School Board.

[xchrom]

4. that was very brave of you.

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7. that is a great thing you did

I know how hard it is to take on a coach in the South.

[HockeyMom]

5. Mother of a Lesbian

I can remember going back to middle school when my daughter would go off the deep end when she had a fight with her "best friend" (female). Yes, she dated and had boyfriends, but it seemed to me, that when she broke up with them, it was no big deal for her. She would lock herself in her room and cry her eyes out when she had a fight with her female friends.

She was very popular in HS and had many boyfriends. Again, she really didn't seem to care about them. She was just going through the motions.

Having grown up in Greenwich Village and having a Aunt who was a Lesbian, I guess I was able to see the signs, perhaps long before she admitted it to herself.

She came out to us when she was 22. As both my husband and I said to her, "So what else is new"?

You have to be who and what you are. To be otherwise, is to live a lie. You will never be happy living a lie and will make those around you unhappy too.

[kevinbgoode]

6. There is no law which says a gay athlete cannot also be christian

And in my opinion, this is where we always, always drop the damned ball. IF this organization tried to keep gays out, we should sue their pants off for using the name "christian" and demand they prove that only non-gays can be "christians." But we won't. . .we'll just sit and hope that they won't come up with something new to attack us with, and of course, tomorrow they will. . .