That’s Gordon James Klingenschmitt, former Navy chaplain who believes he can pray the gay away.
Bless his pickled little heart.
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Now anytime I see a public figure denouncing homosexuality or homosexuals, or who announces that it’s something to be “cured,” I automatically assume that it’s his own (it’s almost always a ‘he’) sexuality that he’s unsure of. If I were one of these men, I’d save my breath for talking with a sympathetic psychoanalyst.
…perhaps one who wouldn’t try to change one’s orientation, which even Exodus realizes now is fruitless.
Mathematicians have determined that there are far more than four dimensions in the universe; so far at least eight have been proven (it’s string theory, about which I am personally clueless, but I have read about this in reliable sources). I can understand that abstract idea intellectually, but I haven’t the foggiest notion what the fifth dimension is like, not to mention the sixth, seventh or eighth. Such things are so alien, so foreign, that I simply cannot conceive of them.
I view sexual orientation the same way. While I am aware and intellectually understand that other sexual orientations exist, and that there are people who have those other orientations, I simply cannot fathom what having a different sexual orientation would be like. The only aspect that I think I can wrap my mind around is that those with a different orientation probably view the topic the same way, that they, too, cannot imagine being different from the way they are.
So when folks like the Chaplain say that sexual orientation is a choice, or that people can simply change it with therapy (or voodoo), I have to wonder. Did the Chaplain have to make a choice as to his own orientation? The first time I heard that kind of talk I was dumbfounded. The idea of making a choice never occurred to me, and I don’t think it has occurred to most people.
Susan, do you really think praying for the Chaplain will make a difference? That it could un-pickle his thinking?
I believe in the power of prayer, yes. This will be a tough case but we in the All-Girl circle are on it.
You should have heard my eighth grade chorus sing this.
On second thought, it’s probably better you didn’t…
It baffles me how Christians say gayness is a sin, and how it is incompatible with Christianity.
Christians believe (at least I think they do) that God is perfect, that God is omniscient, that God made humans in His own image, that God made us all (so we all are “children of God”), and, basically, that God knows what He is doing.
So when somebody is gay, does that mean that God made a mistake, did something in error? And do Christians think that they can improve upon what God hath wrought? It’s all so confusing……