WP "On Faith" Publishes Disgusting Anti-Gay Column By Bob Ragan

[stopbush]

I cannot believe this POS that the WP has seen fit to print. Their irresponsibility is overwhelming.

My Conversion from Homosexuality
Like many, my faith journey began in my youth — 38 years ago. As a teenager, I committed my life to Jesus Christ. That decision presented a conflict because I was also experiencing strong same-sex attractions.

At 22, I chose to pursue those attractions and for eleven years, I was an active homosexual. For six of those years, I was in a monogamous relationship. Yet, the conflict between the life I was living and the youthful commitment I had made to God remained.

In 1987, I realized that I could no longer ignore the inner torment I was experiencing and began to search the Bible for passages that could show me that God affirmed homosexuality. My quest for answers only increased my anxiety.

Arguments commonly used to support homosexuality seemed weak and elevated one’s personal experience as the highest authority of truth. I asked God to help me find resolution and inner peace.

God crossed my path with others who were searching like me and I realized there was a way out.

Bob Ragan is director of Regeneration in Northern Virginia, a ministry that helps men and women who are struggling with sexual and relational brokenness in D.C. Metro area.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/03/like_many_my_faith_journey.html

I would ask that DUers write the editors at On Faith to condemn this bigotted article.

[uppityperson]

1. best of luck to him when he implodes. Thanks for the heads up.

[David Zephyr]

2. Tick, Tick, Tick...

As sands through the hourglass, so are the heterosexual days of his life.

:rofl:

[stopbush]

3. BTW - here's the response I wrote to his column at On Faith:

You lost me at "biblical truths."

Most likely, the truth is that you are gay. The fallicy of your life is that you have rededicated yourself to an imaginary god as a mental construct to avoid your true nature.

You say there is a "way out" of being gay. What an incredibly bigotted thing to say. Is there a "way out" of being straight? Is there a "way out" of being human? Not likely.

There is, however, a way out of the lies and deceits of Christianity. It's called honesty, rationality, and common sense.

I do not celebrate the lie you are living. I feel sorry for you on a personal level. On a global level, I can feel nothing but contempt for you as you spread your lies to those who believe that there is something "wrong" with homosexuality, no more so than for those gays who buy into your god delusion and share your sense of self-loathing. You are a bigot, sir, your life story notwithstanding.

BTW - as far as your "biblical truths that do not fluctuate according to cultural mores or human impulses," surely you jest. Do you need to be provided with a list of Biblical "truths" that have been disproven by science over the past 1500 years? Thank the stars the more-enlightened among us have moved on from your Bronze Age fears and idiocies.

I hope my children will grow up in a world where such thoughts will be consigned to the scrap heap of history's other prejudices and inhumanities. It pains me to know that many of my fellow Americans can hold such destructive beliefs in this day and age.

Shame on On Faith for posting such a column. This is truly one of the most ill-informed and bigotted things I have ever seen on a mainstream website.

[madeline_con]

4. LTTE from a self- loathing gay guy.

Save this sinner, Lord!

[stopbush]

5. Yep. It never occured to this twit that the "youthful commitment" he made

to his god was the real problem, not his homosexuality.

[babylonsister]

6. He's trying to sell something and the WP gave him a pulpit:

http://www.regenerationministries.org/programs.asp

Haggard, anyone?

[AshevilleGuy]

7. Parents of left handed children used to tie their left hands

behind their backs so they would use their "correct" hand. King George V, the Queen's marginally literate grandfather did that to the young George VI; the result was that his stuttering problem grew far worse. Imagine that.

This nonsense about 'curing' homosexual people (I am one) of our "preference" is about as STUPID, and harmful as the treatment used above by parents 100 years ago. WHY is this even an issue anymore? (Where I live it is not.)