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Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
Sick. They identified her as “gender nonconformist” at 3. Really? Child needs to be taken away from parents.
I think that until you have parented such a child, you should stop judging.
These people are no parents at all. I will judge them. They made this child that way. Moms justification: “He liked pink.” Really? Sicko.
If that's all you got from the video, then there would be no sense in us discussing it further.
Have a pleasant evening.
Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
Nonsense.Just took a look at the input of the AMA, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, WebMD, and other sites about gender dysphoria. What have you to add? Are the people, particularly kids, who experience gender dysphoria being protected from adults who would force them to do things that they don't want to do? For example, some "adult" guy screaming at a kid with gender dysphoria that he was going to "make a man out of him," (often mixed in with some perverted brand of religion), or some ignorant woman trying to force a girl to be her good little frothy "pageant beauty," mommy dressing up her little "dolly" or insisting that her dolly girl try out for the "cheerleading" squad so that she can wiggle her T&A before a football crowd. These cretins have been doing this shit for a long time in our culture. What are the safeguards. After all, these same morons cooked up "conversion therapy" to destroy LGBT kids.
What I have I to add? Gender dysphoria is the newest politically correct term given to gender identity disorder. No matter the term, a disorder it remains...a psychological condition.
You want to talk child abuse? Hormone therapy, 'de'constructive surgery (the ultimate 'conversion therapies'?) - those rank right up there with 'some adult guy screaming'...worse, even. That said, I don't approve of screaming at children unless they're running out into a busy street, or reaching for a pan of boiling water on the stove, etc.
You're very quick yourself to pass judgment on parents whose actions you disagree with. I am no fan of beauty pageants for young girls, or tackle football for young boys. That does not mean that parents whose children do participate are ignorant and/or cretins...it simply means that I didn't encourage my children to participate in those activities. Instead, my daughter took tap and ballet for 8 years and competed in hunter/jumper events (horses), a dangerous activity, btw. My sons played baseball and soccer (also potentially dangerous activities), as well as participating in HS marching band. I would have supported my sons taking dance, or my daughter playing baseball if that's where their interests were. The rigors that child athletes endure to become Olympians, or win a scholarship might seem abusive to a casual observer.
It has nothing to do with the myth of ‘political correctness.’
This is a matter best left for parents to decide, absent government interference – this is not something for the authoritarian social right to contrive into one of their hot button ‘political issues.’
What gets me is pretty much twofold. 1) Ignoring the bit where the mother stated that her daughter's level of depression and anxiety was frightening, and on a completely unrelated front, apparently it is absolutely okay to malign and belittle a pastor and his wife the minute they are perceived to have deviated from 'the script,' i.e., they are supposed to treat this child as every regressive on this thread would, yes; even if it meant the child took her own life.
P.S.: Blast from the past.
Mom ties church “untruths” to lesbian daughter’s death
The mother of a 29-year-old lesbian who committed suicide nearly a decade ago told a gathering of gays and their friends and family members yesterday that her daughter died because of the “untruths taught by the church.”
A few of the 75 of so people gathered at Newport Presbyterian Church in Bellevue wiped away tears as Mary Lou Wallner talked about Anna’s death in 1997, about the guilt she felt and how the circumstances have changed her life.
Wallner, who lives just outside Little Rock, Ark., explained she was raised in a conservative Christian home, and that was how she had raised her daughter. When Anna came out as a lesbian in 1988, Wallner was not prepared to accept it.
“I committed a hate crime,” she said, recalling a comment she once made. “I didn’t love my daughter unconditionally.”
Yes, it's two hours. And yes. It's worth the time it takes to watch it.
I'm not sure I expect any paradigm shifts, but I can't recommend this documentary highly enough.
Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
Sick. They identified her as “gender nonconformist” at 3. Really? Child needs to be taken away from parents.
I think that until you have parented such a child, you should stop judging.
Nonsense.Just took a look at the input of the AMA, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, WebMD, and other sites about gender dysphoria. What have you to add? Are the people, particularly kids, who experience gender dysphoria being protected from adults who would force them to do things that they don't want to do? For example, some "adult" guy screaming at a kid with gender dysphoria that he was going to "make a man out of him," (often mixed in with some perverted brand of religion), or some ignorant woman trying to force a girl to be her good little frothy "pageant beauty," mommy dressing up her little "dolly" or insisting that her dolly girl try out for the "cheerleading" squad so that she can wiggle her T&A before a football crowd. These cretins have been doing this shit for a long time in our culture. What are the safeguards. After all, these same morons cooked up "conversion therapy" to destroy LGBT kids.
What I have I to add? Gender dysphoria is the newest politically correct term given to gender identity disorder. No matter the term, a disorder it remains...a psychological condition.
You want to talk child abuse? Hormone therapy, 'de'constructive surgery (the ultimate 'conversion therapies'?) - those rank right up there with 'some adult guy screaming'...worse, even. That said, I don't approve of screaming at children unless they're running out into a busy street, or reaching for a pan of boiling water on the stove, etc.
You're very quick yourself to pass judgment on parents whose actions you disagree with. I am no fan of beauty pageants for young girls, or tackle football for young boys. That does not mean that parents whose children do participate are ignorant and/or cretins...it simply means that I didn't encourage my children to participate in those activities. Instead, my daughter took tap and ballet for 8 years and competed in hunter/jumper events (horses), a dangerous activity, btw. My sons played baseball and soccer (also potentially dangerous activities), as well as participating in HS marching band. I would have supported my sons taking dance, or my daughter playing baseball if that's where their interests were. The rigors that child athletes endure to become Olympians, or win a scholarship might seem abusive to a casual observer.
It has nothing to do with the myth of ‘political correctness.’
This is a matter best left for parents to decide, absent government interference – this is not something for the authoritarian social right to contrive into one of their hot button ‘political issues.’
What gets me is pretty much twofold. 1) Ignoring the bit where the mother stated that her daughter's level of depression and anxiety was frightening, and on a completely unrelated front, apparently it is absolutely okay to malign and belittle a pastor and his wife the minute they are perceived to have deviated from 'the script,' i.e., they are supposed to treat this child as every regressive on this thread would, yes; even if it meant the child took her own life.
P.S.: Blast from the past.
Mom ties church “untruths” to lesbian daughter’s death
The mother of a 29-year-old lesbian who committed suicide nearly a decade ago told a gathering of gays and their friends and family members yesterday that her daughter died because of the “untruths taught by the church.”
A few of the 75 of so people gathered at Newport Presbyterian Church in Bellevue wiped away tears as Mary Lou Wallner talked about Anna’s death in 1997, about the guilt she felt and how the circumstances have changed her life.
Wallner, who lives just outside Little Rock, Ark., explained she was raised in a conservative Christian home, and that was how she had raised her daughter. When Anna came out as a lesbian in 1988, Wallner was not prepared to accept it.
“I committed a hate crime,” she said, recalling a comment she once made. “I didn’t love my daughter unconditionally.”
Yes, it's two hours. And yes. It's worth the time it takes to watch it.
I'm not sure I expect any paradigm shifts, but I can't recommend this documentary highly enough.
Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
Sick. They identified her as “gender nonconformist” at 3. Really? Child needs to be taken away from parents.
I think that until you have parented such a child, you should stop judging.
This shit is just plain bizarre...weirdos/whackos see nothing as bizarre...that’s the problem, they’ll seek to normalize anything...some actually embrace and encourage weird shit...it’s a love affair of sorts where whacks love to become entangled in controversy and oddities.
What if one had a child whom loved to perform sex acts with the family Labrador?
Do you support it?
Do you embrace it out of fear that the child may feel oppressed or even suicidal?
It’s the primary duty of parents...they are to steer their children down the right path even when the child resists and feels ‘oppressed’.
The “right path” does not include a gender choice or sex with Labradors.
Bad, lazy parents with no balls struggle with this fundamental principle.
Nonsense.Just took a look at the input of the AMA, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, WebMD, and other sites about gender dysphoria. What have you to add? Are the people, particularly kids, who experience gender dysphoria being protected from adults who would force them to do things that they don't want to do? For example, some "adult" guy screaming at a kid with gender dysphoria that he was going to "make a man out of him," (often mixed in with some perverted brand of religion), or some ignorant woman trying to force a girl to be her good little frothy "pageant beauty," mommy dressing up her little "dolly" or insisting that her dolly girl try out for the "cheerleading" squad so that she can wiggle her T&A before a football crowd. These cretins have been doing this shit for a long time in our culture. What are the safeguards. After all, these same morons cooked up "conversion therapy" to destroy LGBT kids.
What I have I to add? Gender dysphoria is the newest politically correct term given to gender identity disorder. No matter the term, a disorder it remains...a psychological condition.
You want to talk child abuse? Hormone therapy, 'de'constructive surgery (the ultimate 'conversion therapies'?) - those rank right up there with 'some adult guy screaming'...worse, even. That said, I don't approve of screaming at children unless they're running out into a busy street, or reaching for a pan of boiling water on the stove, etc.
You're very quick yourself to pass judgment on parents whose actions you disagree with. I am no fan of beauty pageants for young girls, or tackle football for young boys. That does not mean that parents whose children do participate are ignorant and/or cretins...it simply means that I didn't encourage my children to participate in those activities. Instead, my daughter took tap and ballet for 8 years and competed in hunter/jumper events (horses), a dangerous activity, btw. My sons played baseball and soccer (also potentially dangerous activities), as well as participating in HS marching band. I would have supported my sons taking dance, or my daughter playing baseball if that's where their interests were. The rigors that child athletes endure to become Olympians, or win a scholarship might seem abusive to a casual observer.
It has nothing to do with the myth of ‘political correctness.’
This is a matter best left for parents to decide, absent government interference – this is not something for the authoritarian social right to contrive into one of their hot button ‘political issues.’
What gets me is pretty much twofold. 1) Ignoring the bit where the mother stated that her daughter's level of depression and anxiety was frightening, and on a completely unrelated front, apparently it is absolutely okay to malign and belittle a pastor and his wife the minute they are perceived to have deviated from 'the script,' i.e., they are supposed to treat this child as every regressive on this thread would, yes; even if it meant the child took her own life.
P.S.: Blast from the past.
Mom ties church “untruths” to lesbian daughter’s death
The mother of a 29-year-old lesbian who committed suicide nearly a decade ago told a gathering of gays and their friends and family members yesterday that her daughter died because of the “untruths taught by the church.”
A few of the 75 of so people gathered at Newport Presbyterian Church in Bellevue wiped away tears as Mary Lou Wallner talked about Anna’s death in 1997, about the guilt she felt and how the circumstances have changed her life.
Wallner, who lives just outside Little Rock, Ark., explained she was raised in a conservative Christian home, and that was how she had raised her daughter. When Anna came out as a lesbian in 1988, Wallner was not prepared to accept it.
“I committed a hate crime,” she said, recalling a comment she once made. “I didn’t love my daughter unconditionally.”
Yes, it's two hours. And yes. It's worth the time it takes to watch it.
I'm not sure I expect any paradigm shifts, but I can't recommend this documentary highly enough.
Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
Sick. They identified her as “gender nonconformist” at 3. Really? Child needs to be taken away from parents.
I think that until you have parented such a child, you should stop judging.
This shit is just plain bizarre...weirdos/whackos see nothing as bizarre...that’s the problem, they’ll seek to normalize anything...some actually embrace and encourage weird shit...it’s a love affair of sorts where whacks love to become entangled in controversy and oddities.
What if one had a child whom loved to perform sex acts with the family Labrador?
Do you support it?
Do you embrace it out of fear that the child may feel oppressed or even suicidal?
It’s the primary duty of parents...they are to steer their children down the right path even when the child resists and feels ‘oppressed’.
The “right path” does not include a gender choice or sex with Labradors.
Bad, lazy parents with no balls struggle with this fundamental principle.
It's adorable how you take the easy way out.
America should be the land of the free.
Who cares what one chooses to do with their lives.
America should be the land of the free.
Who cares what one chooses to do with their lives.
Really good video. I don't know what religion they are, beyond "Christian" (dad is wearing a collar) but they just seem very cool, smart, insightful and accepting.
And here we have Joseph Sciambra is author of Swallowed by Satan: How Our Lord Jesus Christ Saved Me from Pornography, Homosexuality, and the Occult.
For a long time, I tried to convince myself that I was born “gay.” That God made a mistake or just made me this way. But it never made sense. As much as I wanted my body to be receptive like that of a woman, it just never was. My body was designed in a certain way for a certain function. Modern man, through science, can change the appearance, but it doesn’t transform the fundamental structure. I was born male. And nothing I could do or imagine would change that. The way God made me was good. When I was touched by evil, that which God made as good became the cause of my unrest.
It’s easier to believe that someone is simply born “gay,” or somehow assigned the wrong gender at birth, but there is more to this story. In the Netherlands, a country with a long history of LGBT acceptance and tolerance, the levels of mental illness in “gay” men remain higher than among heterosexuals. In Sweden, even those in a same-sex marriage still experience higher rates of suicide than those in an opposite-sex marriage. And 46% of trans women attempt suicide. The rates of those who have not revealed their transgender identity remain largely unchanged. Adults and children with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria need love, but they also need the truth. And they need our guidance.
You and your family will be in my prayers,
Well, he's already got a pretty tenuous grasp on reality (see book title,) so I'm not going to lend him much credence. Just sharing the perception of a lot of people who don't see this girl's reality, just what they filtered through their own life lens.
Has anybody else (besides me) changed what they believe about the sexuality spectrum and everybody on it? Because there are a whole lot of people who don't have their needle buried in either 'straight' or 'gay.'
