Re: [asa] science and homosexuality

On 6/16/06, David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com> wrote:

> The facts that some people are unsuccessful in trying to change and that
> some regimens for change do more harm than good does not tell whether or not
> change is possible or good. Closely equivalent assertions would be true
> about diet programs, for example.

The diet analogy is a good one. In order to make it more equivalent,
the pitch would be:

Try our diet program, once you're done you won't want that extra piece of cake.

The problem I was trying to bring up was not that what we are asking
homosexuals to do something that is very difficult -- even though that
is indeed true -- but the implicit false promise embedded in these
ministries. They are being promised that the temptation will go away.
It does in some cases but the opposite happens too frequently to be so
facilely promised.

This results in successes being treated like failures. Namely, those
who have successfully resisted temptation where the temptation remains
feel like failures because they were promised that the temptation
would go away.
To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Fri Jun 16 19:53:53 2006