You are viewing an archived copy of Christian Concern's website. Some features are disabled and pages may not display properly. To view our current site, please visit christianconcern. Taking therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction can include two goals, depending on what the client wants: some people want to diminish their same-sex attraction and remain celibate; others also wish to see a development in their natural potential for opposite-sex attraction.
As this work is likely more common among Christians, the campaign to ban such therapy has anti-Christian and anti-social implications that reach well beyond this kind of pastoral care. The real target is Christian teaching and pastoral care based on it, and the spiritual duty to repudiate sin after spiritual conversion. Conversion in the real spiritual sense does demand moving away from homosexual behaviour.
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If it becomes illegal for Christians to teach and assist the need to move away from homosexuality, by the same logic the door would have been opened to ban Christian work teaching and assisting people to move away from any kind of sexual immorality, idolatry i. This would be music to the ears of many interest groups in our society, who make a great deal of profit from these sins. Imagine if counselling for alcoholism were banned because the drinks industry got fed-up of criticism.
Imagine if the gambling industry bugged Gamblers Anonymous meetings because attenders reveal the huge damage of gambling addiction and thus the advertising free-for-all that has helped fuel it. The list could go on forever. In fact this kind of attack has already happened, in the case of Pentecostal minister Rev.
