Comments on: Protest planned at APA convention https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Anonymous https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1911 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:48:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1911 To call homosexuality a temptation is to trivialize the attraction, dedication, self-sacrifice and love that many gay men feel for each other. It is the abuse of sexuality (not the gender) that really matters. God sees the heart. I don’t think he is preoccupied with the plumbing.

]]> By: Eddy https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1910 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:01:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1910 It’s ironic that people feel free to ask Frank Worthen about his homosexual temptations as if they define him and his Christian walk. Here’s the question they haven’t asked, “What sin(s) do you struggle with MOST on a daily basis?” I’ll wager that homosexuality isn’t on the top of the list.

Every honest Christian will admit that they still have the ‘tendency’, inclination or temptation to sin in a number of areas and they wish they were somehow above these temptations.

So why attach a SPECIAL stigma to homosexual tempation?

With other sins, the presence of temptation doesn’t bring the label back (i.e. the temptation to lie doesn’t make you a liar; the temptation to overeat doesn’t make you a glutton), why then would the presence of homosexual temptation makes a person a homosexual? The label comes with the ‘doing’ or with the domination…I would concede that a person who wrestles with homosexual temptations CONTINUOUSLY might warrant the label but otherwise, it’s just ‘the flesh’ being tempted in an area where it once found gratification. No different than any other Christian!

(BTW: I confess…I was the Anonymous at 8:24:17.)

]]> By: Anonymous https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1909 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:12:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1909 Correction: Frank Worthen is a Christian

“with homosexual tendencies who would rather not have those tendencies”

who hasn’t died yet. Joe Dallas of EXODUS’s definition of “Ex-gay” — a term that Mr. Worthen still favors.

]]> By: Anonymous https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1908 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:24:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1908 Regarding the latest anonymous posting:

Every Christian I have spoken to admits that they are still tempted to sin.

Here’s the link: Bible.

Conclusion: Frank Worthen is a Christian who hasn’t died yet.

]]> By: Anonymous https://wthrockmorton.com/2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1907 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:57:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2006/08/09/protest-planned-at-apa-convention/#comment-1907 Whether or not Michael Bussee is “insinuating”” that Frank Worthen is still gay, you may want to check out Mr. Worthen’s own comments, as reported by Raplh Blair. Every ex-gay I have spoken to admits that they stil have homoseuxal attraction. Here’s the link:

http://www.ecinc.org/RealChanges.htm

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