The General Conference and Col Cook’s “Gay Change” Mistry – Adventist Today

Contents:

• THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COL COOK’S “GAY CHANGE” MISTRY
• WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS
• REVIEW 2023
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COL COOK’S “GAY CHANGE” MISTRY

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WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS

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In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. A homosexual orientatn isn’t the actual problem; ’s the symptom of a eper issue–legimate, God-given needs for relatnship and timacy that have been channeled unhealthy and sful directns.

There is a lot of wisdom to be found here bee many therapists believe that homosexualy has s roots hurtful relatnship patterns, pecially wh fay members, and many homosexual men and women report exactly that. Fortunately, even for people who do not live an area where there is a mistry tailored for those alg wh unwanted homosexualy, there are onle support foms that n be almost as powerful as face-to-face groups.

REVIEW 2023

Intertgly, don’t seem to matter what the particular stronghold is a person’s life—whether be homosexualy, gluttony, dg penncy, pulsive gamblg or shoppg, alholism, sexual addictn, or any other stronghold—the most effective solutn is the same: timacy wh Christ. A wise iend observed that homosexualy is the u of sful ways of alg wh pa–sful bee they cut off om the One who n heal and meet our needs, sful bee they place at the center of our universe and we don’t belong there. But hundreds of former homosexuals have found a large gree of change, attag abstence om homosexual behavrs, lseng of homosexual temptatns, strengtheng their sense of mascule or feme inty, and rrectg distorted styl of relatg wh members of the same and oppose genr.

She is a equent speaker for MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) and Stonecroft Mistri (Christian Women's Connectns), and serv on the board of Livg Hope Mistri, a Christ-centered outreach to those alg wh unwanted homosexualy. Readg Time: 7 mutHomosexual activists, tent on g every cultural stutn—cludg public schools, the urts, and legislatur—to advance their non-factual beliefs, have been succsful their efforts large measure bee they have lied to Amerins. They have said that bee a homosexual “orientatn” is 100 percent herable and all s immutable, any efforts to help same-sex attracted persons change their “orientatn, ” dimish same-sex attractn, or nstct an inty that don’t clu affirmg same-sex attractn, activy, or relatnships are cel, harmful, and futile.

John D’E, homosexual profsor of history and of women’s and genr studi at the Universy of Illois at Chigo explaed an terview what many—perhaps most—homosexual amicians thk about homoerotic attractn and blogil termism:.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

In a post on the webse Social (In)Queery, Jane Ward, who adms to beg voluntarily homosexual, disput the entire psdo-tellectual edifice upon which Cassidy has built her teeterg bill:. Tdy Rg, wrer for the homosexual magaze The Advote openly adms the flawed nature of the central argument that homosexual activists have ed to sist on special treatment based on their mutable erotic sir and volnal erotic activy—somethg which other groups siarly nstuted do not enjoy:. Journalists tmpet every blogil study that even hts that gayns and straightns might be hard-wired, but they show ltle tert the abundant social-science rearch showg that sexual orientatn nnot be nate….

That’s why, as a member of the APA Council of Reprentativ 1975, I sponsored the rolutn by which the APA stated that homosexualy is not a mental disorr and, 1976, the rolutn, which passed the uncil unanimoly, that gays and lbians should not be discrimated agast the workplace. When groups as disparate as homosexual scholars and nservativ agree that same-sex attractn is not blogilly termed; that n and do change; that environmental factors—cludg moltatn—n ntribute to the velopment of same-sex attractn; and that some s “nversn therapi” do work, would be tellectually and ethilly fensible to e the law to ban forms of unselg that some homosexual activists don’t like. The central motivatn of this sloppily wrten, polilly driven, dishont bill is not to help children, but to advance the pernic goal of mastreamg Leftist beliefs about homosexualy even if that means unrmg tonomy and liberty for fai and mental health provirs, and harmg children and teens.

Multiple discrimatory laws have been passed sce, startg wh 2013 legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights known as the "gay propaganda" law, which banned any public endorsement of "nontradnal sexual relatns" among the vasn of Ukrae last year, Rsian thori ratcheted up their rhetoric, methodilly weedg out anythg they emed a "gradg Wtern fluence, " cludg rights groups that advoted anythg om helpg domtic abe victims to prervg rerds of Soviet 2022, the origal law targetg "gay propaganda" was expand to ver adults, outlawg any posive or even ntral reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people the public sphere, movi, lerature or media, forcg the already rare number of LGBTQ+-iendly spac to executive director of the Inpennt Psychiatric Associatn of Rsia, Lyubov Vogradova, lled the law "misanthropic" ments to the Rsian newspaper Kommersant late June.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.