The disability model
Submitted by Forgiven on 2002-07-20 19:21:08, Saturday
In reply to Re: My feelings are... submitted by truth be told on 2002-07-17 22:27:41, Wednesday
| that sees homosexuality as a sort of illness or disability helps put this in context. We choose to be gay to the same extent that the person with Cerebral palsy chooses to the in a wheelchair or the person born blind chooses to be blind. Or maybe at some point we did choose - but it's not a choice we can reverse - like the driver of the car who drove it off the road because he was driving too fast and ends up in a wheel chair. In either case the response from the church should be constructive compassion - not cheap judgementalism. We seek to live by the command 'Go and sin no more'. Our sin is a bit less acceptable than most of those struggled with in the average church, but 'the ground is level at the foot of the cross'. |
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