“Homosexuality takes us out of our normal state, of being perfectly united in all things, and divides us, causing us to forever pine for an outside physical object that we can never possess. Homosexual people – like all people – yearn for the mythical true love, which does actually exist. The problem with homosexuality is that true love only comes when we have nothing preventing us from letting it shine forth from within. We cannot fully be ourselves when our minds are trapped in a cycle and group-mentality of sanctioned, protected and celebrated lust.”
Notice the quotation marks. What kind of person wrote this? Was it a “fundamentalist preacher,” intolerant of other people? Nope.
Michael Glatze was a celebrity in the young gay movement in America. At 22, he was made an editor of “Young Gay America,” a leading gay-rights magazine aimed at young people. Mr. Glatze embraced homosexuality at 14 and “came out” at age 20. He has has received “the National Role Model Award from major gay organization Equality Forum – which was given to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien a year later –” and a made a “whole host of appearances in the media, from PBS to the Seattle Times, from MSNBC to the cover story in Time magazine.” In 2005, he “was asked to speak on the prestigious JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2005″ along with the mother of Matthew Shepherd (a brutally slain young man). In short, Michael Glatze was the ultimate poster boy for homosexuality, a perfect picture of the happy gay man.
But something else was happening along with all the accolades and appearances. In the midst of it all, the Holy Spirit was at work in his heart. Michael writes that he, “began to seriously doubt what [he] was doing with [his] life and influence.” He continues:
“Knowing no one who I could approach with my questions and my doubts, I turned to God; I’d developed a growing relationship with God, thanks to a debilitating bout with intestinal cramps caused by the upset stomach-inducing behaviors I’d been engaged in.
Soon, I began to understand things I’d never known could possibly be real, such as the fact that I was leading a movement of sin and corruption – which is not to sound as though my discovery was based on dogma, because decidedly it was not.
I came to the conclusions on my own.”
Those conclusions led him out of his bondage to sexual sin and into the arms of Jesus Christ.
I encourage you to give Michael’s article about this a read:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56487
For more on the story:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070710/28385_Skepticism_Over_Validity_of_Ex-Gay_Story_Prompts_%27Confessions%27.htm
Apparently, Michael is involved in the LDS church. Interesting, isn’t it?
Administrator
July 11th, 2007