TD: Re: [CS-FSLUG] God Didn't Say That

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:23:54PM -0500, David M. wrote:
> On Monday 10 January 2005 11:11 am, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> 
> > >>> If I went around hiding my hearing aid from people and acting like I
> > >>> could
> > >>> hear everything, would I be living a lie?
> >
> > A better analogy would be something like:
> >
> > Let's say that I had a broken arm with a cast on it.  Now, if I later
> > take that cast off of my arm and walk around without it would I be
> > living a lie?  Well, it all comes down to whether or not my arm was
> > actually healed before I take that cast off of my arm.
> >
> > If God healed my arm and I DON'T take that cast off then I would be
> > living a lie.  If my arm were NOT healed and I took that cast off then I
> > still would be living a lie.  BUT if God healed my arm and I take that
> > cast off then I would NOT be living a lie, but be a living testimony of
> > the power of God to heal.
> >
> > I leave it to the reader to make the proper application in the current
> > discussion.
> >
> 
> IMHO, this isn't a good analogy. A broken arm doesn't even come near the 
> emotional trauma one suffers from being different.
> 
> It wasn't until I was 16 that I even worked up the nerve to talk to a girl 
> which was when I met my wife. She moved in across the street from me. It 
> wasn't until that day that I actually worked up the nerve to talk to anyone 
> outside my family. Matter of fact I paid my brother who was about 7 years old 
> at the time a quarter to go over to her house and introduce us. And after 
> this happened I went over there but first I took off my hearing aid because I 
> was afraid she wouldn't accept me!
> 
> Then once we started talking and she got to know me for who I am on the inside 
> and not the out, I then started wearing my hearing aid.
> 
> Understand what im saying?
> 
> I think the women on this list can relate to this in a huge way. 
> 
> Having said that, my whole point in my anology meant that has anyone here ever 
> thought that this man chose to hide his lifestyle again to escape from the 
> emotional trauma and persecution so he could be fully accepted and loved by 
> the people he holds dear to him?

Also a possibility.  However, not the only possibility.  Unless you are
implying that homosexuality is a result of a physical dysfunction
(which I presume your hearing aid is)?

Aaron Lehmann