Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
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Joined: 12/31/69
#1Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:30am
"I can, in truth, firmly say that the longer I keep turning away from my homosexual desires, the less in strength they become," Moore wrote in "My Story: Homosexuality, Drunkenness, Grace and Redemption." "Many, many days I have failed to fight perfectly. I have at many times in my walk stooped down and willingly spoon-fed myself the familiar, vile vomit that is sin. Yet, in each and every one of my failures- I was given grace; grace to repent and to keep following after Jesus."
I won't be on grindr again….ever.
#2Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:36amIt would be easy to point a finger and snicker at the "ex-gay" who is simultaneously writing articles on conversion therapy and cruising dudes on Grindr. But the excerpts from his blog show him to be a deeply troubled and confused young man, a self-hating young man who doesn't know how to come to terms with his feelings. I hope he finds the help he needs.
#2Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:40amAnd by help, you mean dick, right?
#3Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:41amPrecisely.
#4Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:46am
Someone going through a private turmoil deserves as much empathy as possible.
Someone making money off of their turmoil, and in turn lying to others about the success of turning away from 'sin' should be held accountable.
#5Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:47amAnd by accountable, you mean tied up and gangbanged by a pack of hungry Daddy Bears, right?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#6Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:51amMy pack would not be interested.
#7Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:10pm
Someone making money off of their turmoil, and in turn lying to others about the success of turning away from 'sin' should be held accountable.
I generally agree. His blog posts seem like a cry for help to me. I empathize with that, even in this circumstance.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#8Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:22pm
I keep humming a Taylor Swift (Taylor Lautner?) song:
"We...are never, ever getting off together!"
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#9Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:24pmConsidering who she wrote that song about, allegedly...
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:34pm
I'm not snickering at him, and while I feel some compassion for the struggle inside his head, this is the kind of a-hole whose actions and hypocrisy make it more difficult for the rest of us out here. And at the end of the day, this struggle of his is completely self-created. Sure, I have compassion for him allowing himself to be consumed by a religion that tells him he is "broken" and "imperfect", but this sort of self-flagellation (that gets him closer to Christ!) is just distasteful and unappealing. Like AC, I'd like to hope this guy will find the help he needs, but he's not going to get it from the echo chamber that responds to his blog and he's not going to get it from the brand of Christianity he's bought into and then peddles.
I read some of us blog, but after a while it just all mushes together for me, the same old Christian tropes about "perfection" and "glory" and "grace" and "broken" and all sorts of other fifty cent buzzwords that strive to make you think something really deep is being said, but really are just repackaged nonsense that someone else was parroting before him.
Here's something from his blog. This has been the anchor of my soul lately: the unchangeableness of God’s goodness toward me in Christ. If that mishmash of word gobbledygook is his anchor, then I can understand why he's lost, because it makes no sense.
Read his "Dear Gay Kid" and see for yourself. Actually, don't. I'll just give you the highlights.
1. Gay sex will never be as good as porn
The sex wasn't as good as I had imagined it to be, or as glorious as pornography made it out to be. And I had sex with quite a few people, so I know.
2. You'll never truly be close to someone else in the "gay world"
Meaningful friendships in the gay world were hard to come by. There was a constant betrayal of friendship everywhere you looked; gossiping, hooking up with a friend’s boyfriend, public humiliation, etc. There was no loyalty that I ever saw. All I saw was superficiality. Romantic relationships were almost inexistent [sic], very very rare. I saw and heard of multiple, long term relationships that were ended suddenly by cheating... and within days both guys were already dating and hooking up with new people. It was a constant moving from one person to the next, one hook up to the next, one high to the next. There was no love in my life, only a desire for more. More sex, more alcohol, more out of control nights. There was no contentment. No stability. No peace. Happiness could be found, sure, but it was always short lived. You’d think you’d found a guy who you could actually see yourself in a relationship with…. and then you or he would completely mess that up within a matter of weeks, usually resulting from hooking up with someone else. I realize you can’t stereotype people, and not all gay people have the same experience I did… some actually live seemingly “moral” lives away from the party/sex/drugs/alcohol scene. But this was my experience, and the admitted experience of many others who are honest enough to admit it.
3. If you can't (by self-denial) be in a relationship with a man, but all means turn Jesus into your boyfriend. He'll wind up pursuing you, even if you don't play hard to get!
So did God make me straight? Nope. He made me ALIVE. I still am attracted to men, but all of the sudden, things became so much bigger than my sexual preferences. I realized that I was actually made by God, hand-made by God, and He wanted me to pursue Him. And then after studying the Bible for a few months, I realized that the only reason I wanted to pursue Him was because He had already hand picked and pursued me before time even began! He pursued me to so great a degree that He became a man and bore the wrath and penalty that I deserved for my sin. God hung on a Cross, for me. He pursued me.
4. Homosexual feelings are to be equated with evil.
God has allowed a lot things to take place since time began that are not good. He has allowed evil. He has allowed sin. He has allowed murder. He has allowed rape. He has allowed homosexual desires….. and although He hates evil, He still uses it for His purposes.
5. ALL sexuality is bad
Your identity shouldn’t be found in your sexuality. All of our sexualities, whether “gay” or “straight”, are broken… and when we trust in Jesus, we aren’t defined by our brokenness anymore. You don’t have to be gay, even if you struggle with same sex desires. Your temptations don’t define you. Jesus defines you…and if you believe in Him, He says you are a holy, blameless, pure and beautiful child of God— no matter what temptations you struggle with.
Dear Gay Kid
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Joined: 12/31/69
#11Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:48pmI think Romantic relationships will be almost inexistent for this scum bag no matter who or what he purports to prefer.
#12Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 12:49pm
"and although He hates evil, He still uses it for His purposes."
God sounds like the most F*CKed up boyfriend ever. Sheesh.
And this:
"Happiness could be found, sure, but it was always short lived."
Anyone who doesn't understand that happiness is ALWAYS transitory is an immature human being who will ALWAYS disappointed in life...no matter the sexual orientation.
#13Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 1:39pmI hate to say this, but I really cannot imagine an end to this guy's life that's not suicide. He is so supremely self-loathing that I just don't think he could feasibly go on allowing himself to live.
#14Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 1:41pm
"He is so supremely self-loathing that I just don't think he could feasibly go on allowing himself to live."
Well, he could always wind up in Congress.
#15Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 2:26pm^^^It doesn't get better than that.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#16Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 2:39pm
"The sex wasn't as good as I had imagined it to be, or as glorious as pornography made it out to be. And I had sex with quite a few people, so I know."
Then he's been doing it wrong.
#17Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 5:08pm
I don't know what it takes to make someone break free from this line of thinking.
I know a 45 year old, an otherwise intelligent, capable, motivated individual, who is still on this downward spiral - it seems to take him about 6 years to do a circuit and I've known him do four of them now. The older he gets the more concerned I become for his long term mental health.
#18Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 9:48pm
I don't know what it takes to make someone break free from this line of thinking.
A miracle.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:03pmIt's been decades since I've seen any pornography that makes sex look glorious. I feel bad for this kid's sense of perspective.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#20Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:16pm
I was close to 30 before I had sex that I would consider truly extraordinary. And I had sex with quite a few people, so I know.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#21Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:23pm
Then he's been doing it wrong.
This.
#22Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/6/13 at 9:10amIf someone expects sex to be like porn, what do they expect when they watch Glee? Spontaneous mashups and 30 year-old high school students? Just don't let this kid watch a Tarantino film.
#23Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/6/13 at 9:56amWas he waiting for a pizza boy who would accept something else as a tip? Or a cop who would be willing to negotiate whether you get a ticket? Or a doctor who's just a bit too handsy?
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#24Christian Post Blogger Who Wrote About ‘Leaving Homosexuality’ Found Cruising for Dudes on Grindr
Posted: 2/6/13 at 10:00am
Probably an alien excited and aroused by human sexuality while secretly draining life force. Yep... nerd porn
I bet this is a win-win for the church. If he further claims heterosexuality, that's the power of repenting of "sin". If he goes into further depression, degradation, or worse, that's the natural result of this "sin".
Updated On: 2/6/13 at 10:00 AM
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