Written: 10/15/2011
Just a reminder, anyone tells you that gays can change themselves, because we just choose this life, remind them that that is hateful, harmful and a lie:
The former leader of Exodus International’s oldest ministry says you can’t repent of homosexuality — and he now publicly admits he is homosexual himself.
John Smid, who resigned as Executive Director of Love in Action in 2008, has made his strongest statements yet disavowing the message he preached for years as the head of a ministry that promised gays they could change. Writing on the website of his new ministry, Grace Rivers, Smid says being homosexual (he generally uses this rather clinical term rather than “gay”) is an intrinsic part of a person’s being, not a behaviour he can repent from
I also want to reiterate here that the transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a change of sexual orientation. Actually I’ve never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual.
While it may be something we all wish for at some point, we can’t change who we are. And while sexuality to some degree is fluid, there is nothing to repent, nothing wrong and nothing to be ashamed of. You love who you love.
All my best,
The King of Spades
