Are We Living Out Romans 1?
by Rosaria Butterfield, Desiring God:
I was 35 years old, called myself a lesbian, and worked as an activist and English professor in New York when I first encountered these words from Romans 1:
God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting. (Romans 1:24–28)
Huh, I muttered. Seems like dangerous hate speech or some other devastation designed to ruin my life. God’s word brought me to a line in the sand and a hole in my heart.
What I Called Love
After many years and much struggling, God used the words of Romans 1 as he led me to repentance and faith. Through the crucible of conversion, I learned that the central thrust of this passage required eyes of faith. What I called love for my lesbian partner, God called defilement.
Watch: Former Gay Reveals Truth of LGBTQ Agenda Flooding the Culture: They’re Sanitizing the ‘Horror Stories’
Read also: ‘Ex-gay’ man claims to have been ‘cured’ of same-sex attraction in terrifying newspaper article by Patrick Kelleher, Pink News
Mike Davidson of Core Issues Trust comments:
I’m not sure what has upset Pink News so badly today. They create such absurd headlines: whoever among us talks about ‘cure’? And as for citing the Ozanne Foundation’s report and the National LGBT Survey, when will they admit that any person who has moved away from the LGBT identity is, and was, automatically removed from such survey work? Ozanne’s work is generally acknowledged to have massively over-represented the LGBT community, making it non-generalisable in UK society, and of over-focussing on Church of England participants.
University of Ulster’s (my former employer) Siobhán O’Neill once again reguritates the Memorandum of Understanding’s (2017) speak. Take just one example: by condeming change-allowing therapies she fails to recognise the American Psychological Association’s recognition in their own Handbook of Human Sexuality, (2014) of the impact of sexual abuse during childhood on many of those who go on to develop homosexual lifestyles. The Handbook states that there are “associative and potentially causal links between childhood sexual abuse and having same sex partners”.
Obviously not everyone who identifies as “gay” has been abused, and not everyone who is abused becomes gay, but some people do feel their feelings of same sex attractions were forced on them by childhood sexual abuse. My question for professor O’Neill is, is she willing to recognise the need for support for such people who were so abused who wish to leave these feelings? Does she acknowledge their right to refuse to be forced to continue as gay? If she does recognise this need, is this not in direct contravention of the Memorandum of Understanding that provides no exception to the condemnation concerning assisting those wishing to leave unwanted feelings?
Core Issues Trust stands with individuals who are being forced to live with homosexual feelings that were pushed on them. We stand with people who want to preserve their marriages, and who have prioritised their children over their own sexual gratification. We value the freedom and rights people have to identify as they choose.
Its time for Pink News to realise the failure to recognise our rights is what is contributing to the unravelling of LGBT and to exposure of it’s ideological presuppositions.
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