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Journeyvision -- I love your last question: How can they do this and still be helpful to people? So insightful.

I believe they have decided there is no hope, so they are doing what they see as the compassionate response. But in Christ we have great hope. We are all born with sin, we all have chains, but Christ can break them. I cannot tell you how many people I've seen set free from this. Do they still struggle? Sure! I've been set free of the tendency to lie that I have had since I could talk -- but sometimes I am still tempted! Ironically, they wouldn't tell someone who was born with a propensity to alcoholism there was no hope and this is how they must be, but they do it with these chains.

But there is great hope in Christ. God does not command what He will not help us to do.

I also loved your "Raisin in the Sun" quote. I believe that when well-meaning people tell those with a tendency toward homosexuality that this is how they must always be that their dreams for a normal life dry up like a raisin in the sun.

Thanks for your wonderful questions and thoughts.

Dee