David Kyle Foster
By David Kyle Foster, Charisma News
For over 10 years I lived the homosexual lifestyle, and for 34 years I have not. And there are very good reasons for that difference. To those who suggest that I never was homosexual, my response is, “Does sleeping with over 1,000 men count?”
Oh yes. I was homosexual, though like most, I never wanted to have such attractions. I saw the narcissism and arrested emotional development all around me, and in me. Guys flitting around like Peter Pan were sometimes cute and funny, and certainly nonthreatening, but I wanted to be a grown up. I wanted to be a man. I wanted to be strong, solid, stable and reliable.
I recognized the obsession with youth and beauty that drove their fantasies and lusts and knew that once I entered my thirties, the thrill of being wanted would quickly come to an end. I cringed at the epidemic of perverse sexual behaviors commonly practiced and celebrated by gay culture and wanted nothing to do with them.
Such behaviors were so obviously perverse. Simple anatomical design declared it. A man was designed to interact sexually with a woman. That’s the design. And when sex is practiced outside of that design, physical damage and a legion of diseases are unleashed—not to mention the judgments of the Lord described in Romans 1:24-32: “God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual immorality … God gave them over to shameful lusts … receiving into themselves the due penalty for their perversion … God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done,” and in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “the sexually immoral … those who practice homosexuality … will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
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“I was a homosexual.”
Got news for you: You still are. Being gay is an orientation. It’s in your genes. It’s not defined by any behavior on your part or anyone else’s. So man up, Mr. Foster.
Jim,
There is NO scientific data to support what you just said.
Joan
There is no more evidence that being gay is somehow specifically encoded in one’s genes than is a tendency to be rude and a dismissive know-it-all. While the hurdles and temptations may vary, fallenness is the plight in which we find ourselves in such desperate need of God’s grace.
everyone is different, i believe it’s impossible to generalize. especially about addictions. some may be genetic, some may be sin based, all are called to live the Commandments as written in the Bible, not make up own rules, that’s the issue about this topic. as a single person called to live a single life i understand how difficult it may be at a younger age to figure out what’s going on. let’s all try to have some empathy, sympathy for the travels of our brothers and sisters in Christ. no path is straight.