{"id":3060,"date":"2012-04-19T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2012-04-19T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T09:16:23","slug":"bus-ads-expose-homosexual-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/bus-ads-expose-homosexual-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Ads Expose Homosexual U-Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\u00a0blog on the Daily Telegraph has shown how the bus advert storm has highlighted a homosexual activist U-Turn.<\/p>\n

Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked, says it used to be ‘the gays’ who emphasised their choice of sexuality and said they had a right to whatever orientation and lifestyle they wanted.<\/p>\n

Now, he says, organisations like Stonewall have switched their position.\u00a0 Now it is all: ‘Be nice to poor us; we cannot change who we are; we are stuck like it; get over it!’<\/p>\n

He also says that nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Christians held to the determinist position, but that they have switched around as well.\u00a0 He is on less sure ground there, although it depends on which theology a certain Christian holds.\u00a0 The evangelicals, such as the prison psychiatrist of Liverpool nick in the 1950s, Dr F H Brisby,\u00a0who wrote an article for the BMA\u00a0cataloguing homosexuals who had changed which was submitted to the Wolfenden Committee, have always maintained that Christ can heal and transform our pathological nature.<\/p>\n

(Read O’Neill’s article here: http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/brendanoneill2\/100150707\/the-bus-advert-storm-confirms-that-christians-are-now-more-progressive-than-gay-rights-activists\/<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

But as for ‘the gays’, he is bang on target.\u00a0 When I researched my book ‘The Sexual Dead End’, I found\u00a0a strong emphasis amongst homosexual writers of the 1970s and 1980s on sexual freedom and the right to choose our ‘orientation’.\u00a0 Agreed, it was strongest amongst the lesbians, where ‘going gay’ is seen as a logical feminist rejection of what they see as a male-dominated society.<\/p>\n

Books like ‘Pink Triangles’ and ‘With downcast gays’ had a theme of sexual freedom, but it was at its strongest in the Gay Liberation Front Manifesto.\u00a0 In other words it was the radical end of homosexual activism which emphasised freedom of choice, while the political savvies saw that determinism was a better way to achieve their aims.<\/p>\n

All the same, Leo Abse, when bringing in the Sexual Offences Bill 1967, which started the whole gay machine rolling, attributed the curse, as he put it, of homosexuality to a lad growing up without a father figure with whom to identify.\u00a0 The lack of a proper identification as a member of one’s one sex is still seen as one of the routes into homosexuality by conservative psychiatric professionals – and Christians in healing ministries, today.<\/p>\n

Homosexual behaviour was looked upon as just a matter of sin until people like Carl Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfield came along in the l880s and proposed\u00a0the ‘third sex’ idea.\u00a0 Sigmund Freud opposed their determinism and rejected a genetic or hormonal predisposition in a move which was catastrophic to homosexual political aspirations.<\/p>\n

It was when Simon Le Vay found differences in the brains of homosexual men as against a heterosexual control group that the determinists got really exited, despite LeVay himself admitting:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s important to stress what I didn\u2019t find.\u00a0 I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work.\u00a0 Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain (as quoted in Byrd, et al., 2001).”<\/p>\n

Hard on Le Vay’s heels came Bailey and Pillard\u2019s ‘gay twins’ in 1992\/1993 and Dean Hamer’s ‘gay gene’ in 1993.\u00a0 Now the determinists and the homosexual politicos were cooking.\u00a0 Hamer’s results have not been replicated, and he didn’t claim to have found a ‘gay gene’ responsible for all homosexuality either.<\/p>\n

The ‘gay gene’ studies are criticised here: http:\/\/www.trueorigin.org\/gaygene01.asp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So to come right up to the present, the Christians behind the proposed bus ads are emphasising what gay activists were in the 1980s, that a homosexual lifestyle is chosen, learnt behaviour.\u00a0 Where they differ is in mainataining that such a lifestyle is not a good thing and that the underlying pathologies can be dealt with and a person restored to how God intended him or her to be through the healing power of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

And it works; men and women have walked away from the homosexual lifestyle and had their orientation changed by Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Their stories are the ones which cannot be allowed to be heard in today’s politically correct climate, but they will not go away.<\/p>\n

And it is because Christian healing is such a political time-bomb that Stonewall have to reject it, with all the determist fervour they can muster.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green<\/p>\n

Order The Sexual Dead-End here: http:\/\/www.repentuk.com\/resources.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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