I can’t say I agree with all the measures of the bill, from what I’ve heard. But I think if we saw by first hand experience, in the US, the kind of ravishing scourge AIDs had been to Uganda we would not say that it’s harsh to have a death penalty for an infected person having sex with another person and KNOWINGLY putting another at that risk – something like that is criminal. We have AIDs here, not nearly as common, not nearly as severe. I think we’d have a different perspective if we had experienced life in Uganda in the last 25 years.

Shalom!

but more pertinently, why stop with homosexuality? What about adultary? what about fornication? what about punishing those who blaspheme the holy spirit and those WHO REFUSE TO ACKNOWLDGE Jesus as Lord and as as the chosen Jewish messiah? why oh why then do we focus on the homosexuals? if we punish them we may as well punish the jews too for their lack of unbelief, for it surely is a sin to reject God’s annointed one.

just as the “christians” punished the jews for their continued rejection of the messiah back in the dark ages so too are we punishing the homosexuals for their rejection of God.

That’s why i say throw this bill in the trash where it belongs, and let God judge alone judge us for all our deeds when we are raised up for our final judgment.

may God have mercy on us!

The Lord loves you, Zoe, in a deeper way than any human being will ever and ever could. When He walked the earth, and went into the synagogue, He opened up the book of the prophet Isaiah and read about Himself: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.” Luke 4:18. Zoe, the Lord loves you more than anyone ever will! He is the Great Physician, whose healing goes deeper than any surgeon’s knife. I pray that you will learn more of Him. In Him you will find all that you ever wanted, as I can tell that you are a serious thinker who is not easily pleased with superficial “fixes.” In Him you will the deepest healing imaginable. I pray that you will avail yourself of His outstretched hand.

Much love,
your sister, Ruth

SOMEONE has to stand up. Or the situation will continue. To those to whom much has been given, much is expected.

Thanks so much for your benediction. Our challenges are unusual, that I’ll grant. But no worse than many others have. Nowhere near as bad as some.

As regards the speaker who “narrowly avoided” a sex-change operation, if it’s the person I’m thinking of, this is an obvious case of mis-diagnosis by a non-specialist. The symptoms weren’t those of transsexuality, but paraphillia. Transvestitic fetishism, at least according to the diagnostic manuals, and a pretty obvious case too, not hard to diagnose. That they were ever considered for surgery for a moment is a cause for real worry. I’m surprised they didn’t react badly to the hormones – assuming these were even taken. There should have been signs of permanent change long before surgery.

You say a “miracle” occurred — was this biological, psychological, was this your acceptance of which sex you felt yourself more to be, or — rather than me guessing, won’t you please explain?

I’d picked the new name “Zoe” at age 10. When I thought that a silly mistake had been made, putting me in with the boys when it was obvious I was a girl.

Later, when I found out that boys and girls were born looking different – I’d never seen a naked female, and Sex Education was not in the curriculum in the UK in the 1960′s – I had to re-assess the situation.
Nothing could shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong, that I was a girl with a boy body. But such a situation was too terrible to live with, so I had to deny it. I had to acquire a minor psychosis or die.

I tried to be the best Man any woman could be. It’s obvious in hindsight that I tried to be the kind of guy I should have married – I used that image as a role model. (I was asexual by the way, not interested in men at all).

What made things more difficult was that I was obviously Intersexed. I’d been (mis)diagnosed with PAIS-I in 1985. The “Undervirilised Fertile Male Syndrome” subcategory. I looked male, very male, to all but an expert. With my clothes on, anyway.

I had my female puberty in 2005. And with 21st century technology, gene scans, MRIs, ultrasounds, endocrine assays etc etc the consensus was that I was most accurately classified as a case of “severe androgenisation of a non-pregnant woman”. By then, I looked female to all but an expert, again, with my clothes on anyway. I sought treatment to remedy that last bit, and my OB/Gyn now is quite happy with the result, and so am I.

One more note: I am sorry to hear about your friend(s) situation, and I know that these people need more love and care and understanding than most of us can grasp. I look to the Lord for a comprehensive, truly healing answer.

Thanks for your thoughts, and again, you know how sympathetic I am to the struggles and changes you have lived through.

From what I have studied, you can make at least as good a case that pedophilia is inborn and immutable as you can that homosexuality is (although I don’t accept that either are), and therefore what you wrote about the one I would apply to the other: “If it is innate, unchangeable, then the obvious course of action is to teach people how to be happily and completely celibate. And to give whatever help we can to them, lest they harm others.”

For scores of reasons, I see homosexuality as contrary to God’s order and contrary to what is best for the human race, but, thankfully, I do know of former homosexuals who have been transformed by God’s power. I also know of people who were sure they were born in the wrong body and lived out an active homosexual life for years before being transformed by God’s love and power. I just heard from another one today, and one well-known speaker was on the verge of sex-change surgery shortly before the Lord changed and saved him.

May God’s grace be poured out upon you!