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TheHeretic -> RE: Just another conservative on vacation. (5/7/2010 7:56:43 PM)
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I'm just going to throw this in here. Not that long ago, a high school smoking buddy pinged me on a more mainstream social site, and we wound up having a fairly long catch up/laugh at old times phone call. He'd been down the serious druggie path, then rehab and school, and was now an addiction counselor. I always fugured rehab was for quitters, but we found we still had much to discuss 25 years later. The topic turned to relapse, and I found myself with the distinct impression that he was not as rehabed as some might believe. And yet I believe he is still perfectly capable of helping people a lot worse off than he is.
Now I'm of the opinion that sexual orientation is pretty much hardwired, but not everybody believes that. The people who don't believe that include some homosexuals. There are cocksuckers who don't want to want to suck dick. They are gay, but hate themselves over it. If it is gay-rehab or suicide, I'd rather write a check to the fundies than to a mortician. In that sense, this guy can be seen as performing a public service.
There is a harsh truth that we pretty much are who we are. Sometimes, people need a faith, however imperfect, that can keep them in one piece until they can make peace with themselves and that fact.
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