{"id":11140,"date":"2018-02-21T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T23:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2018-03-19T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T01:10:06","slug":"healed-lesbian-cruel-for-church-leaders-to-go-soft-on-same-sex-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/healed-lesbian-cruel-for-church-leaders-to-go-soft-on-same-sex-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Healed Lesbian: Cruel for Church Leaders to Go Soft on Same-Sex Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Former by Pete Baklinski –
\n\u201cThe Church needs to lovingly say to this person: This is not who you are. Acting on same-sex inclinations is never going to bring you to a place where you can have a right relationship with God. In fact, if you go this way, you are heading down a destructive path.” ~ Robin Beck <\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin Teresa Beck, 59, lived through 12 lesbian relationships over the course of 35 years before her dramatic conversion to the Catholic faith and healing from homosexuality, just five years ago.<\/p>\n

Beck spoke with LifeSiteNews over the phone from her home in Michigan in the Detroit area about everything from the impossibility of creating a healthy gay relationship, to why lesbian relationships can never fulfill the emotional needs of women, to how she believes God looks on people struggling with homosexuality, to how the Church should approach homosexuals. <\/p>\n

it is impossible to have a healthy gay relationship because it goes against the way God made us to be<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Her experience with same-sex attraction and the gay lifestyle gives her insight into what is at the heart of homosexuality and why it is fundamentally incompatible with the human person and with Christianity. \u201cOur Creator said that a man leaves his mother and father and comes together with his wife and the two become one flesh. God\u2019s creative design was for men and women, not for men with men or women with women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Beck explained further: \u201cIt\u2019s like if one day I think my car should become a boat and I plunge it into a river thinking this is totally passible. But General Motors begs to differ. If I toss aside GM\u2019s plan for the car and drive into the river, the car will sink and I will drown. God created us. He knows and tells us the way he made us to be. You have to put your soul in alignment with Scripture. From my experience, it is impossible to have a healthy gay relationship because it goes against the way God made us to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

it’s cruel for any religious leader to look favorably on homosexual relationships<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Beck called it \u201ccruel\u201d for any religious leader to look favorably on homosexual relationships, saying if they only knew about the suffering, darkness, and brokenness tied to the lifestyle, they would never even consider condoning it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople do not see homosexuality for what it is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think because I was so broken and so totally sickened by my sin that for me it was like: \u2018I\u2019m never going back there. I don\u2019t care if Pope Francis gets in the chair and proclaims homosexual behavior is no longer a sin \u2014 which of course he can\u2019t do \u2014 but if he did, I would be like: \u2018No, I\u2019m sorry. It is a sin.\u2019 I don\u2019t care who tries to tell me otherwise. I am just resolute on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

People who love God and neighbor need to reach out to people struggling with homosexuality with truth and love, Beck said.<\/p>\n

Religious leaders need to start confronting homosexuality head-on<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe Church needs to lovingly say to this person: \u2018This is not who you are. Acting on same-sex inclinations is never going to bring you to a place where you can have a right relationship with God. In fact, if you go this way, you are heading down a destructive path. The good news is we love you, we are going to be patient with you. If you fall a thousand times, we will still be there for you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

Religious leaders need to start confronting homosexuality head-on, Beck said, because it\u2019s the only way to offer any real help to people struggling in this area.<\/p>\n

\u201cPriests need to stop people-pleasing. They need to speak the truth in love. If people pack-up and go away, well, so be it. When their lives get broken, they\u2019ll be back. And they\u2019ll be back at a place that truly is a hospital, where people can find true comfort and healing.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Church is supposed to be the light<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Beck said religious leaders need to start leading the faithful in acts of repentance for all the ways in which humanity has strayed from God\u2019s plan for sexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Catholics are in big trouble. It\u2019s as if we are just taking orders from the world instead of from God. People need to get on their knees and repent. The Pope needs to call us to get on our knees and repent. The Church is supposed to be the light. We are supposed to stand fast with Truth and not compromise with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

God can heal you of the struggle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction, Beck has words of hope and consolation.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod can heal you of the struggle,\u201d she said. \u201cI know it\u2019s not a very popular message, but I know it\u2019s true because for 35 years I was in it and now, thanks to him, I am no longer. If God can heal me, God can heal anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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by Pete Baklinski – \u201cThe Church needs to lovingly say to this person: This is not who you are. Acting on same-sex inclinations is never going to bring you to a place where you can have a right relationship with God. In fact, if you go this way, you are heading down a destructive path.” … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,95,174,15,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-homosexual-indoctrination","category-homosexuals-healed-by-christ","category-moral-issues","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}