Former gays or impostors? Ideology and scams on LGBT people's skin
Reflections sent to us by Massimo Battaglio
Periodically testimonies of self -styled "ex gays" that, thanks to particular encounters, have "healed" by homosexuality, are periodically. In these days that of a tal is in circulation Samuel, originally from Kurdistan, ex muslim that would have "met Christ ".
The story is very similar to many others: it begins with a hidden homosexuality and then manifested with pride. Follows the story of a life made of economic and social successes but full of recklessness and dissatisfaction. At a certain point, suddenly, Jesus appears and everything changes. For greater security, the testimonial specifies that, initially, he did not believe in the proposals of "healing" and considered them a bit as an offense. He wants to underline that he had given full adhesion to an "LGBT ideology".
Then, the miracle has happened, everything changes. And therefore we move on to the logical arguments of the miracle itself, then to the biblical ones, and finally to the invitation to travel the same road. It does not end with an address because the game would be too discovered, but en passant is provided, among the words. And I will look good from giving it.
On the contrary, I tried to do various searches to see which occurrences appeared on the net on our former gay of the week. I found three. Definitely few. Two lead to sites between traditionalist mysticism and the environments that Pope Francis defines as "pseudo-scismatic".
The other leads to an American Facebook page. A profile that explicitly makes réclame to reparative therapies, books on the subject, themed conferences. In all three sources, the same "testimony" of Mr. Samuel ex gay is reported.
I don't want to argue with those who advertise these impos. I do not intend to advertise them in turn, not even if they do it in good faith. I am scandalizing me a little more those who continue to organize initiatives (for a fee) for the "healing" of homosexual people. They have the same honesty as those who promise therapies that would eradicate cancer, with the aggravating circumstance that, in our case, there is nothing to eradicate.
Only two things are known:
The first: reparative therapies, including religious, even if they do not speak of "psychological repair" but of "spiritual healing", are disavowed everywhere. There are more and more countries that explicitly prohibit them. And the testimonies of those who, having promoted them in the past, now confess their harmfulness and uselessness are growing.
The second: in Italy, even if there is no explicit prohibition on reparative therapies, they are in fact attributable to two crimes. One is that of fraud as for the deceived people. the Other and that of "abuse of popular credit"As regards their ideological advertising.
And a third thing: Jesus does not reveal himself miraculously. It meets in everyday life. And he has the face of our brothers, with the sadness of their anxieties and the joy of their hopes. He asks everyone to love more, to sow peace, to walk in justice. That is, he asks everyone to convert the heart, and to anyone that of sexual orientation.
