Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6908728-20131117224425/@comment-6209322-20131228015651

As I said, you may not like the source, but the study itself is not connected with CBN, but was conducted through Regent University, and it indicates that change is possible. And since you brought up the APA (that lovely little extension of the pharmaceutical industry), they, in fact, admit that the scientific evidence for the changing of gender orientation is inconclusive. Throughout our conversation thus far, you have repetedly asserted that changing one's sexual orientation is impossible, but that's all your words on that vein have been -- assertions. The fact is that people can change, as evidenced by the study I linked, and by the lives of hundreds of people who have changed.

The Huffington Post had a rather interesting article on the topic, and I've linked it below. I know that sometimes the temptation is strong to simply skim and not read the articles linked, and I admit to being guilty of it now and again, but this particular article is truly worth the read. I don't necessarily agree with everything in it, but I like the general sentiment of the article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/homosexuality--choice-born-science_n_2003361.html

I don't think that gay marriage and intercourse should be illegal (in large part because I don't think that marriage in general is the business of the government), but I do think it is morally wrong, and that people, if they are willing, can change their orientation. However, if they do not want to change, they should not be forced to. America is freedom to act as you please (so long as it hurts no one else), while morality is doing what is right -- the two are not the same, and the government is not charged with enforcing the latter. And one thing that I thing we both agree is wrong is the condemnation that many Christians put on gay and lesbians. Love is what Christans are called to do, and that means caring for others from our hearts, not condemning them with our mouths.