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

[David M.]

On Monday 10 January 2005 01:39 pm, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> 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)?

Not physical, but psychological.

Mine is physical and psychological, but to a homosexual I presume it would be 
only psychological since usually nothing about them is physically out of the 
ordinary.

here's something else I'd like to add:

Coping is one thing.
Being thrown to the wolves is another. 

-- 
David M.