in our church we have speakers come in and give talks about different issues of the day.
one time a person came to talk to us about the local "Home for Boys", run by the catholic monastery.

One of the Brothers of the monastery come to talk to us about the Home.
After the talk, (intended to build support for the Home within the community ) there was a time set aside for Q&A.

A question was asked about the type of boys at the Home?
And the answer was surprising...

I had ***umed that most of the young boys where there because that had lost their parents and had no place else to go, but I was wrong.

It turns out that the vast majority of boys at this home where there because that had committed many sexual crimes and were listed as repeat sexual offenders.

We then learned what they did at this Home to help the boys .
and that is what i wanted to tell you guys here now.

the Brother was asked if "counseling" actually helped any of the boys that were sexual offenders?
The Brother's answer was not what I expected....


The Brother asked me if i was a confirmed Heterosexual ?
I answered that i was.

Then the Brother asked me if I thought that any "counseling" would ever be able to change that and change me into being a guy who was sexually attracted to boys?

My answer was a definite "NO!"

The Brother then pointed out to me , that although I'm never going to be other than a strictly Heterosexual , yet because I also am married I have found that I have been able to "control" my more wild Heterosexual proclivities and thus am not subject to the more base animal sexual nature inside me.

This is what is the hope for the staff there also at the Home for boys.



From this i came away with the following conclusion-
I came away with the idea that when i hear people debating over the question of "Born Gay Or Not?" I have a different answer than most Christians...

My answer is..."Its a moot point"....."It does not matter"...""The bible is clearly speaking to the evils of ****sexual acts, and so even if you are born gay it does not mean you are doomed to be forever in sin"

For i believe that regardless we have the ability to limit our actions to conform to accepted behaviors.