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Originally Posted by Azzan
Okay, I'll bite. I have been lurking on this forum for over a year, listening to the discussions on here. Of particular interest to me have been the discussions about gays.
You see, I am one. I am not here to push an agenda and I am not going to be drawn into debate. I am simply responding to NOW's request to hear from a person who is gay.
A little about me. I was raised in the UPC. My family is still in the UPC. In fact, I have children being raised in the UPC and my father holds a license with the UPC.
There has been a lot discussion on here about whether being gay is a choice. Believe me, I wish it were! It is not a choice for me and never has been. I cannot tell you how many hours were spent in prayer and days spent in fasting asking, nay pleading, that this condition be taken from me.
I so hated what I was that I have tried suicide twice and been locked up in mental wards. It's only been in the last 10 years or so that I decided that if I were going to survive that I find a way to accept and even love myself.
There was no way I could make my religious training and my "choice" to be gay co-exist with each other and so one had to go by the way side as there is no room for my kind.
So there you have it.
What would you like to know NOW?
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You have kids? I remember hearing from a man that runs a ministry for gays out of a church here in SoCal. He says it's not a born this way or choice issue. It's a carnal nature issue which we all have. The choice isn't to be attracted to other men or women. The choice is to act on it. We all have a carnal or flesh nature and we all have to wrestle with it. It doesn't necessarily mean you will stop being attracted to others of the same sex, not anymore than I will be attracted to every hot looking woman out there. I still have the ability to commit adultery or lust, even married men.
That's my opinion
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