Your priest is a wise man.. =)

The Word of God has made a few clear comments on homosexuality, that’s undeniable, but would simply quoting and condemning people who are trying to fight these urges back help? What is needed is much more than that. The source of the homosexuality is often not in the act or lust itself, but springs from some other roots.. It can be severe insecurity, etc. What is needed is to deal with the root of the problem.. If insecurities are the source of the prob, then the only solution, perhaps, is to really draw very close to God… It doesn’t really require you to abstain, but you have to trust the grace of God and that that grace will see you through and bring you out of the tyranny of those urges.

I am glad to be given a chance to give my view on this matter. Sorry if my comments is unclear. I was never good in English.

(posted on April 4, 2009
Dear Deepak,
I want to stress in one of the universal principle which is the law of gender.
This creation was the vibration between the possible and impossible and when you think more of that you will find that this creation continues to evolve due to the opposition.
Male and Female, Black & White, Sky & Earth… etc
So of course, homosexuality is not a sin but praying for clarity is about understanding our creation in this dimension and the principles that rule it.
What do you think?)

For those of you calling on homosexuals to be celibate, why don’t you offer instead your sons and daughters to be marry these homosexuals. Maybe it’s not celibacy you should be advocating.

And God is not an advocate of any man’s judgment…

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

Luke 6:36-37
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

I feel guilty whenever i do something sexual with a guy, but at the same time I can feel the “tingle” vibrate thru me at the sheer thought of it and I don’t understand why people are forced to deal with urges they don’t want.

I have cried for weeks, prayed, listened and read all the passages in the Bible and these are now the points i think no one else on here has made.

God loves all man-kind, but no one will make it into Heaven living in sin. We cant repent from sin and continue to do it. Jesus is the only atonement for our sin and the Holy Spirit in prayer is our weapon against the attacks of Satan.

This world is not the place that Christians are to make themselves too comfortable. We are to love everyone but not to cause this love to cause us to sin.

The orgin of homosexuality came from false idol worship. I don’t think it would have happened if Adam and Eve had never sinned.

Jesus suffered so much for us, we will feel pain and suffering sometimes in this life but that’s part of the deal. Hell is not worth it. Not even the risk even if u don’t believe in hell, its not even worth the risk.

For people who are gay and “miserable” because they cant have a same sex partner, i think you can have a celibate relationship, as long as no sex happens.

I am only 23 so I hope to meet a girl who wants to be straight also and we can help each-other. It takes time but we have to live sacrificial lives to please God. He told us to be a living sacrifice- Holy and acceptable unto God.

Only what God intended is acceptable to Him, not what we feel is fair or unfair. Not to say that I don’t wish that it wasn’t a sin to be gay, its not- its a sin to have sex with the same sex.

Its a lifestyle that is many times tragic, full of drugs and drinking and promiscuity anyway for the most part. Thats goes for straight people also I guess but i think more often amongst gays.

Make Jesus Christ the love of your life, its not always easy, pleasant, satisfying to the fleshly desires but it will be worth it when you escape the damnation and judgement to come.

1.Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.

2.Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can’t legally get married because the world needs more children.

3.Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

4.Straight marriage will be less meaningful, since Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.

5.Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are property, blacks can’t marry whites, and divorce is illegal.

6.Gay marriage should be decided by people not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

7.Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

8.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

9.Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

10.Children can never suceed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.

11.Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to cars or longer lifespans.

12.Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “seperate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Seperate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as seperate marriages for gays and lesbians will.

Thank you for being who you are and teaching kindness, we all know this world is full of anger, be it war or religion. You are teaching what I feel God wants us to all practice, acceptance and love for one another. It is the 21st century and by now we should all realize that white laying with blacks, men laying with women and same-sex laying together is all acts of love and should not be construed as anything less. Remember, there was a time in America when a black person and white person being together was a crime and a crime that the church punished. Let us not forget the wars that have been fought in the name of God, yet this, was only mankind and mans greed using the Lord as a weapon, and we continue to see this all too often today.

Thank you again Deepak for teaching love.

Why did the Chicken cross the road?
(Anonymous, from various sources, with
some additions by Timothy, noted with an
asterisk*; a double asterisk** is my
elaboration of an original item in the
anonymous version.)

Taoist sage Lao Tzu:*
The road that can be crossed is not the
true Road.
(Tao Te Ching, ch. 1)

Also from Lao Tzu:
Those who cluck do not know.
Those who know do not cluck.

Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your
own chicken nature.

Star Trek’s Captain Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone
before.

Plato:**
To know her true self, for the greater good
of all.

Zeno of Elea:
To prove she could never reach the other side,
given that, before she can get there, she must
get halfway there; and before she can get
halfway there, she must get a quarter of the
way there; and before traveling a quarter, she
must travel one-eighth; and …

John Lennon:**
Imagine all the world’s chickens, crossing
every road in peace…

Colonel Sanders (of KFC—Kentucky Fried
Chicken):
I missed one?

Hugh Hefner (the “Colonel Sanders of Hot
Chicks”):*To fully expose its delightful body.
Maybe she would like to come live with me…
and dress up as a bunny.

Dr. Seuss:
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did she cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed, I’ve not been told!

Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain. Alone.

Martin Luther King Jr.:**
I have a dream that one day all of God’s
chickens, chickens of every color and faith,
from every village and every hamlet, will be
free–thank God Almighty, free at last!–to
cross any road without their motives called
into question.

Louis Farrakhan:
The road, you will see, represents the black
man. The white chicken crossed the
“black man” in order to trample him and keep
him down.

Grandpa:**
Well now, listen here, my young friend.
In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken
crossed the road. Someone told us that the
chicken crossed the road, and, by golly,
that was good enough for us. Those were
simpler times, and we were simpler folks.

Barbara Walters:
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments we
will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first
time, the heart-warming story of how it
experienced a serious case of molting and went
on to accomplish its life-long dream of crossing
the road. We’ll have all the details you want to
hear, right after this break.

Oprah Winfrey:
Well, I understand that this chicken is having
problems, which is why he wants to cross this
road so badly. So, I’m going to give this chicken
a car so that he can just drive across the road
and not have to live his life like the rest of the
chickens.

Dr. Phil:
The problem we have here is that our chicken
friend won’t realize he must first deal with the
big problem on THIS side of the road before he
goes after the problem on the OTHER SIDE of
the road. He needs HELP realizing just how
STUPID he is for not taking on his CURRENT
problems before adding NEW problems!

George Bush:**
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed
the road. We just want to know if the chicken
is with us or against us. No middle ground here.
In fact, Vice President Cheney tells me there’s
evidence this chicken is a terrorist in collusionation
with the enemies of our freedom. Dick, do you have
your gun handy? Wait a minute now, Dick! Make
sure that thing’s pointed in the right direction, okay?

Colin Powell:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see
the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…

Ralph Nader:
The chicken’s habitat on the original side of the road
had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed.
The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on
other side of the road because it was crushed by the
monstrous wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

Pat Buchanan:
To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.

Jerry Falwell:
Because the chicken was gay! Isn’t it obvious? Can’t
you people see the plain truth? The chicken was going
to the other side. That’s what they call it: “the other side.”
Yes, my friends, that chicken is GAY. And, if you eat that
chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all
chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal
media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
“the other side.”

Ronald Reagan:**
As with the Iran-Contra matter and Nicaragua, I don’t
remember. But I’m sure it was in our great country’s
best interests.

Bill Clinton:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken.

Sigmund Freud:**
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken
crossed the road clearly reveals your underlying sexual
insecurity. What were your feelings about your mother?

Carl Jung:*
How synchronous, Herr Freud, that this chicken should
cross this road at exactly this moment on the way to
its full individuation!

H.P. Lovecraft:
To escape the crawling horror lurking on this side of the
road, a nameless and foetid monstrosity that cannot be
conceived save in the dreams of madness.

Howard Cosell (sportscaster):
It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of sports history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to
homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

Bill Gates:
To lead the other chickens across the Info Superhighway
and into a world where there’s a computer in every home.

William Blake:
Little chicken, who set thee free
To wander here on Highway Three?
“Oh, sir, your question’s very odd;
He is called the Lamb of God.”

Weekly World News:
Nostradamus predicted chicken/Bigfoot horror!

Thomas Jefferson:
All hens are endowed by Nature and Nature’s God
with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of the
other side.

Karl Marx:
Driven by the lash of economic necessity, it was
historically inevitable.

Voltaire:
I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I
will defend to the death its right to do it!

Che Guevara:*
I am in solidarity with all chickens! Viva el pollo!

X-Files’ Fox Mulder:
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes!
How many more chickens have to cross before
you believe it?

X-Files’ Scully:
Mulder, calm down, it was a simple bio-mechanical
reflex commonly found in chickens.

Sir Isaac Newton:
Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in
motion tend to cross the road.

Albert Einstein:**
It depends on the chicken’s frame of reference as
to whether the chicken crossed the road or the road
crossed the chicken. Moreover, given our curved
universe, if the chicken keeps moving in the same
direction, it winds up coming once again to the same
road!

Physicist Werner Heisenberg:
Because the chicken is moving sufficiently fast, you
can either observe the chicken or you can measure
the chicken, but you cannot do both.

Timothy Leary (smiling):**
Because it was the only far-out trip the Establishment
would let this groovy little chicken take.

Jean Paul Sartre (not smiling):**
To impose a meaning upon her accidental existence…
Do you think you could sit with that chicken in a small
room for eternity?

Albert Camus:**
The chicken crossed the road. My mother died today.
Nothing matters. The world is absurd. Chicken’s actions
have no meaning, except, possibly, to her.

Jacques Derrida:*
These are just language games in the logocentric strategy
of discourse. What is a “chicken”? What is the “road”? In
the reappropriation of the original text of this phenomenon,
and being utterly open to its subtext of emptiness and the
many, as part of our ongoing postmodernist deconstructionist
project, we are interested here only in the actual feathers,
tissue, beak, claws, and asphault.

Jacques Derrida (asked the same Q on another occasion):
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each
interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can
never be discerned, because structuralism is
DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Vito Corleone:
We made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.

Rogue cops in the L.A.P.D. (Los Angeles Police Dept.):
Give us ten minutes with the chicken and we’ll find out.

Nancy Grace:
That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY!
You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

O.J. Simpson:
It didn’t cross the road. I was playing golf with it at the time.

Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Steven Wright:
Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road.
It said, “What for?”

http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Spiritual_Humor.html

🙂

“It is a deadly serious business we have
with this business of being so serious…”

He had a lot of other good stuff
like that, too.

Christians are against abortions, and
homosexual unions, too.

Well, who has less abortions than people in
homosexual unions? Here’s an entire class of
citizens guaranteed never to have an abortion,
and the Christians are just tossin’ them
aside.

You’d think they’d be natural allies.

As I am an aficionado of unions, I know
homosexual unions would be welcomed
by me…

SOLIDARITY FOREVER, MAN!

🙂

St. Paul, et al. And he was a hell of a lot holier than you are, Mr. Prancing-Through-the-Tulips.

To me, your words are clear, easy to understand, and resonate with truth.

If there is indeed a single God, I can not imagine God would be an entity who would look down on any two people loving each other.

Damning someone who is feeling bad or confused will only make them feel bad and confused, and not closer
to the truth of Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection into God’s love.

Forgive them Lord, for they do not know what they do…

Peace

leave the gays and lesbians alone. don’t preoccupy yourself with what they are doing. make sure your hands are clean before you start pointing fingers and handing out judgement. only god judge us. right? so leave dem alone and worry about ur own sins.

k thanks

Don’t stop fighting the homosexual urges. God loves you, and He will never give you more burdens than
you can bear. You WILL be free if you seek God and don’t give up. Don’t pray only when you get
tempted. Make a habit of praying and reading the Bible daily.

I highly recommend the book: “The Spirits of Sexual Perversion” by Laneen Haniah. It will get you started
on the road to freedom. You can find it on amazon.com.

May God bless and sustain you. I’m praying for you.

“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.”

“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) ”

“And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. “