Posted on 07/18/2010 12:30:00 AM PDT by GonzoII
Friday July 16, 2010Ex-Lesbian Janet Boynes Tells Moving Story of Conversion
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman She was raised by one of her mother's boyfriends, an alcoholic who abused her mother, who in turn showed Boynes little affection. At 12 she was molested by a relative, then an altar boy at her church. She began to suffer an aversion to men, and found that her own sex was more appealing. She also began using drugs. "I was starting to become more attracted to women," Boynes told CBN in a recent interview. "So many men had hurt me that these women, I thought, were a lot more like me." Her pain was covered over by a false masculinity that made her into a school bully, she says, and already in school people began to ask her if she was a lesbian - an idea she avoided until her 20s, when her loneliness led her to her first sexual encounter with a woman. Although she had had a conversion to Christianity, Boynes says her lesbian experience led her to reject her faith and to enter into the homosexual lifestyle, with all of its turbulence and pain. She moved from one relationship to the next, became a cocaine addict, and developed bulimia, she says. "My life was miserable. It was starting to go literally down the tubes," says Boynes. "But I was refusing to come back to God." However, her life began to change when she was invited to a local church that she had often seen on her way to work. "And me, not thinking in my right mind, I said, 'sure, I'll go.' and I came in with these sweat pants on, looking grubby, not knowing what to expect," Boynes told CBN. "I'm in a room with nine other women, just beautiful women, feminine, and I thought, 'what have I gotten myself into?' so, I'm sitting there with my head down, feeling so ashamed, thinking these women are cruel, they're going to chew me up and spit me out." Boynes says she was shown compassion and understanding, and given support by the church's members in her struggle to free herself from her addictive lifestyle. Eventually, a couple offered to take her into their home, where she lived for a year and received the love she had never experienced as a child. She abandoned lesbianism permanently, and recovered her heterosexual identity. Eleven years later, Boynes runs a ministry that offers help to those seeking to escape from the homosexual lifestyle. She also recently testified before the Minnesota Senate's Judiciary Committee against the creation of homosexual "marriage." Noting that she and one of her lesbian partners wanted to "marry" and adopt children, she told the committee: "I'm so thankful that we did not go through with the plan and perpetuate another dysfunctional family. Children need one mother, and one father." She also noted that "by legalizing homosexual marriage you are supporting and encouraging behavior that scientific evidence shows makes people sick, often incurable and fatal. I saw this borne out in the lives of many of my friends while I was living a lesbian lifestyle." Related LifeSiteNews coverage: |
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Many times I would bet.
I'd say after loads of time proving themselves, observing them in every situation of life, private as well as public, and just plain old-fashioned discernment.
And consider this: many long married folks have been convinced that they are homosexual and leave their spouses for this lifestyle. So, how risky is it for a woman to marry ANY man?
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One of the most beautiful stories I've read in a long time. I know there are many more like hers. Can you imagine if a movie were made of this story?
There is a way out of the "gay life". No one is born homosexual. And this statment is true for everyone, and a door that opens to life, for all us broken souls:
"I want everybody else that's living the homosexual life who didn't have a great mother or who didn't have a great father to experience that God is a father to the fatherless or motherless," says Boynes."
I’m an ex-alcholic, ex-petty thief, ex-liar, ex-drug user and ex-promiscuous slut.
Thank God!
That’s not the entire list, either. Ex-atheist, ex-thinking homosexuality is just fine, ex-pro-abortion. Probalby more if I think hard.
God is good!
Well said.
You’re BAD!
**Noting that she and one of her lesbian partners wanted to “marry” and adopt children, she told the committee: “I’m so thankful that we did not go through with the plan and perpetuate another dysfunctional family. Children need one mother, and one father.”
She also noted that “by legalizing homosexual marriage you are supporting and encouraging behavior that scientific evidence shows makes people sick, often incurable and fatal. I saw this borne out in the lives of many of my friends while I was living a lesbian lifestyle.” **
This woman has grown very wise.
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