Posted on 06/10/2018 10:26:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A resolution submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention for its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, has called on the nation's largest Protestant denomination to reject "homosexual identity politics" and state bans on conversion therapy.
Titled "On Ministry and Counseling to Lead People from Homosexuality to Heterosexuality," the resolution, among other things, asks the SBC to "offer loving assistance to people suffering from same-sex attraction, so that they may turn from homosexuality to heterosexuality" and to reject "as heresy any claims that God makes people homosexual."
"... the movement against so-called 'conversion therapy' poses an immediate threat to Christian obedience to the Gospel of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because it is possible that due to lack of support from Christian ministries, some people with same-sex attractions may err in defining themselves as 'homosexual' by nature, and may thereby invite a fatal sin into their hearts," states the resolution submitted by Robert O. Lopez, a professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.
"... in both Christian and unbelieving political contexts, homosexual identity politics has prompted a dangerous movement to ban so-called 'conversion therapy' or 'reparative therapy,' banned in terms so broadly as to endanger the work of Christian ministries in aiding people with same-sex attraction to turn away from homosexuality toward heterosexuality."
In 2016, Lopez, who was raised by two lesbians, was forced to resign from California State University at Northridge due to LGBT activist pressure.
In comments sent to The Christian Post on Thursday via the group MassResistance Texas, Lopez said that the resolution came partly in response to recent political efforts to ban gay conversion therapy or sexual orientation change efforts.
"We saw that Southern Baptists who want to make a change from homosexuality to heterosexuality are not getting enough help from churches. New laws banning change therapy are likely to worsen the situation," said Lopez.
The resolution comes at a time when more states are moving to ban conversion therapy for minors, with Maryland and Hawaii passing state-level bans earlier this year.
Furthermore, on Thursday the Delaware General Assembly sent a bill banning conversion therapy for youth to the desk of Gov. John Carney, who is expected to sign it into law.
"For young people across Delaware, this legislation provides vital and potentially life-saving protections from the damaging, dangerous and discredited practice known as 'conversion therapy,'" said Sarah McBride of the LGBT advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign.
"While Delaware has made historic progress on LGBT equality, we can and must do more to protect LGBT youth from rejection, stigma and harm." =
We are weak by default; the fall corrupted every area of our nature.
God doesnt need to do anything to impose this.
So is there going to be a stop in urging kids to come out?
If its wrong to help them go from homosexual to straight, then its just as wrong to help them go from straight to homosexual.
It needs to be confessed and repented of as sin.
I dont doubt that its also demonic in origin.
The desires the person has may be demonically imposed without the person being aware that the thoughts and feelings they are having are not even their own.
The problem comes when someone makes their temptation their identity.
I dont see anyone claiming that they are a Chrisitan prostitute, but God is OK with their prostitution because it serves a need and they share Christ with their johns.
I actually knew someone who claimed that God told her it was OK to do drugs as long as she did it with someone else and shared Christ with them.
After a few of those kinds of comments, I severed ties with that person. That is major league deception there.
I think you didnt read it right.
I dont think they are banning conversion therapy.
They are rejecting the bans by the states on conversion therapy.
There is a difference between God making people gay and being born gay.
Sin is a powerfully destructive force not just to us but to our physical environment. Our genetics are slowly failing because of it.
It was not Gods design for people to have homosexual attraction. The destruction and degradation of our genome means some people are born with homosexual attraction.
Humm your right I did read it wrong. No wonder the whole thing didn’t make sense to me when I read it wrong.
I read it wrong the first time too.
I had to reread it carefully to get what they were saying.
I agree with you 100%.
Note, however,that the term "conversion therapy" is controversial. I would not use this term, because it is taken (by some LGBT's and their allies) to mean some program of alleged "treatments" like ECT whose efficacy is dubious.
Please read comment 27
OK, S’Awright..
Ya gotta wonder what they are afraid of.
Confusing headline
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