A BLOG BY ALAN CHAMBERS

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Friends,

Please check out my commentary in today's World Net Daily: What Ted Haggard can still Teach the Church.

Barack Obama: Anomaly or Anti-Christ?

John Cloud at Time magazine seems to think anyone who tolerates evangelicals is a bigot and that includes Barack Obama. He writes, “Obama has proved himself repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot. He is far too careful and measured a man to say anything about body parts fitting together or marriage being reserved for the nonpedophilic, but all the same, he opposes equality for gay people when it comes to the basic recognition of their relationships.”

To be honest, Barack Obama, doesn’t seem to fit any of the labels commonly used on either side of the aisle. Depending on which circle of friends I am with at the moment the opinions on who Barack Obama is and what he is about range from Savior to Satan and everything in between.  I have to tell you, my own concrete judgment of this very complex man just won’t dry.

I did not vote for Barack Obama because I will never vote for any candidate, Republican or Democrat, who believes in killing pre-born babies.  No Christian should.  Barring a miracle, Barack Obama will appoint one, if not two Supreme Court Justices who a pro-abortion thus dealing a mortal wound to our efforts to end the serial murder of the most innocent and endangered species of our time: the preborn.  While young evangelicals seemed to flock to the anti-war Obama camp they did so over a war that will eventually end anyway and at the peril of millions of future people.

It is hard for me to be remotely optimistic about this new era and administration.  I fear the kind of change Obama wants to bring and his promise of hope tastes a bit like the after-belch I experience on the heels of an artery clogging meal at McDonald’s.  Regardless of where I am or whom I am talking with my feelings are unchanged on whether or not Barack Obama is currently the best person for the post he will soon hold.  But, it is at this point in my daily thought process where my faith rescues me and my heart turns towards the Lord and I thank Him that He is God and that I am not.  I remember that my human mind is incapable of fully grasping or understanding what only God can.  It is in this moment that I daily choose to pray that Barack Obama goes down in history as the greatest Christian president that ever lived. 

I honestly do not want President-Elect Obama to fail in his position, just with many of his policies.  I do not believe it is a Christian value to pray for a man’s destruction or downfall but on the contrary to pray for him to succeed by a landslide as God’s representative in whatever situation or venue he aspires to.  I remember too many Christians, including myself, who reveled in Bill Clinton’s marriage and political woes.  He and his policies were so hated by conservatives that it seemed we were happiest to be right that he was wrong.  Christians got a reputation for caring more about being right than they did about loving those with whom they disagreed.  I’d hate to see us make the same mistake again.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ll continue fighting against things I believe are evil, like abortion.  I am going to fight against policies that are unnecessary or that expand the rights of groups coalesced around unbiblical sexual behavior.  But, I am daily praying FOR more than I am praying against.  I am praying FOR Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and their two little girls.  I am praying for the Bidens and Clintons alike.  I am praying that if they don’t already know Jesus Christ as their Savior that they will.  I want them to succeed in the roles that the God of the Universe created them to succeed in.  Isn’t that a pro-life position?  I think so.

I am encouraged with some of what I am seeing from Mr. Obama.  It seems he knows that he cannot pander to one side.  It seems he understands that as the President of the United States that he must serve all of the people and not just some of them.  It seems he has listened to some concerns and is acting in a way that represents the majority in the middle over the minority on the right or the left.  I believe he has a long way to go and certainly I pray his heart changes on some key life issues like abortion and marriage.  But, for now, I see him making regular pleasantly surprising moves toward being a President for all.  A small move in the right direction, like inviting former homosexual Donnie McClurken to sing at an event on the campaign trail and asking Rick Warren to do the invocation at the innaguration, is better than no move at all.  And, when you can anger the far left and the far right at the same time then there is a remote chance you might just be headed to a good place.

So, while some are proclaiming him a Savior and others prophesying he is the anti-Christ, I am simply praying he is the Lord’s next great miracle and someone with whom I will spend an eternity as my brother in Christ.  That is the only thing that is helping me through this time of uncertainty as someone I find politically inexperienced and socially anti-Christian assumes the post of the most powerful leader of the most powerful country in the world.  Maybe the Lord put him there so that we Christians would be forced to pray for both him and our country.  That is what my family and I intend to do. 

Obedience Over Orientation

Save Me, a newly released movie about God and homosexuality, hits upon some of life’s toughest questions as it hits the theatres. Mark, the main character, is a homosexual with sexual and alcohol addictions who winds up at an “ex-gay ministry” called the Genesis House. While Marks finds compassion, hope, sobriety, self-respect and God there, he does not find a “cure” for his same-sex attraction.

No doubt some of the questions raised in this movie are ones that plagued me as a young person when I began dealing with my own “sexual orientation”. My attractions seemed fixed, but my understanding wasn’t.  If my temptations and fantasies were any indication of my seemingly fixed orientation, then I was gay.  While I experienced crushes on girls on an emotional level the almost emotionally cannibalistic attraction I had for guys also fully encompassed me physically and sexually. What’s the problem, right?   Today those feelings are called natural, legitimate, god-given.  And the conflict is blamed on intolerant and antiquated religious views that our culture is daily working to obliterate.  In the 1980’s that wasn’t the case; homosexuality wasn’t polite company.  We were still doing everything in our power as pre-gays and lesbians to appear typical and that meant living in the closet.  That cultural reality coupled with the innate conflict that somewhere at the core of who I was — being gay was wholly and unalterably inconsistent with my very being.  Any fantasy or action was followed by tremendous fear of retaliation from a just God, which was followed by tremendous guilt and confusion.

 I tried to stop the feelings.  I tried not to give into the temptations.  I prayed constantly for healing and to be straight.  I did this for years.  To no avail.  It seemed I was first, last and always, gay.  How could this have happened?  Why me?  How would I reconcile this with my faith and with a just God?  I couldn’t.  How would I change the reality of those feelings and the orientation that I hadn’t asked for?  I wouldn’t.

At 19, I went to a local Exodus International Member Ministry for help in dealing with my unwanted feelings of same sex attraction. Not too long after, I remember going out to dinner with friends from my support group. While out, I ran into a group of my gay friends and one of them said to me, “Are you out with your straight-wanna-be friends tonight?”  I laughed and blushed on the outside, but I was crushed on the inside and wondered, Will this alternative really work? Should it even be tried?  What if I fail and then my old friends want nothing to do with me either?  Was I just gay and sin or not in need of being true to who I was?  Should I just be gay and ask for forgiveness daily for the rest of my life?  Was celibacy the answer — realize I’m gay and have all the fun without all the sex?  Could I call that Diet Homosexuality?

A little misguided at first, I stayed on the “road to recovery” from homosexuality.  I most wanted to be normal and acceptable, I think, but that misrepresentation of the point served to help me stay in the game.  While the pressure of a church culture that was intolerant of people is a reality that I am happy is changing today in lieu of a healthier acceptance of people and understanding that all sin is ugly, not just the ones we don’t struggle with, that pressure and intolerance served to keep me from truly embracing a gay identity. I was never told heterosexuality was the answer, but I sure did believe that it was.  Success for this boy, the youngest of 6 and uncle of 23, was a wife and kids.  However, along the way I came to realize that heterosexuality was not the opposite of homosexuality---holiness is---and that being straight wasn’t THE answer and might never be a reality.  I also learned that heterosexual wasn’t a label or a state of being more than it was God’s creative intent for the appropriate sexual expression of His creation.  It was the only way His creation could reflect His image sexually.

During this time of understanding God’s plan for me, seeking Him for my very survival and trusting Him with my every sexual urge and impulse, I really began thinking how my future, beliefs and sexual sobriety would be impacted if my feelings never changed.  Talk about a dilemma — a crisis of faith and a time of grieving over what might never be.  I might never get to express myself in the way that felt natural.  I might never feel the way I believe I was created to feel.  Moreover, what if I find a member of the opposite sex that I want to feel sexually attracted to and can’t or find a man that I am sexually drawn to and can’t express it?  ARGH!

It was during this season of great angst that the Lord spoke clearest to me.  He knew that I needed some real direction.  Maybe God spoke because of that and maybe He spoke because, like Jacob, I grabbed on and refused to let go until He spoke. Jacob held on for a blessing; I just wanted understanding hoping it would bring relief.  What I came to understand and know during that time, though, has served me well for a decade and a half now. God spoke to me through the question of a friend who asked me, “What do you think God is more interested in, your obedience or your happiness?”  It’s funny to me now, 15 years later that such a question was ever so puzzling to me, but it was.  My immediate thought and answer was that God wants me to be happy. Of course, He wants us to be happy, my friend shared, but God cares most that we are obedient. And as another friend of mine who has also been through a similar journey, Sy Rogers , often says, “Obedience will never hurt you like disobedience always will.”

That night was pivotal for me.  For the first time ever I knew what was necessary.  The question for me was no longer, “What do I do?”, but rather, “How do I do it?”  Not too long after that night a new and increasingly dear friend challenged me on the fact that I had allowed a bout of depression to keep me out of work for three days straight.  Looking for compassion from her I got a firm kick in the seat.  She said, “Get off your butt and go to work tomorrow. You need to start going on what you know and stop living by how you feel.”  That went hand in hand with what my friend had said earlier. Being obedient was what I knew to be right and pursuing happiness first was allowing my feelings to be the motivating/deciding factor in my life.  Wow.  All those years of getting puzzle pieces that didn’t fit together, I was finally getting ones that connected.

This was the beginning of the flood of insight that the Lord began to give me and still gives me today.  It was almost like I’d lived in a desert my whole life, but there was this wall in the middle of the desert that I knew was there, but never seemed to investigate. Come to find out the wall was a damn and the desert a river basin.  Further investigation led to cracks in the damn which led to the flood that restored this river basin to its original intended state.  It’s amazing to think about, but God always wanted me to investigate the wall and to discover that He wasn’t desirous of keeping me in the dark. He wanted me to know Him and to reveal Himself to me.  I won’t ever comprehend it all in this life, but the floodgates were opened and I get more and more of His truth and grace every day.

While I have sought and found some tremendous insights on the Lord related to my struggle with homosexuality that has been but a minute part of what He has imparted.  My struggle with homosexuality was a symptom of my humanity and my brokenness and as He has renewed my mind, transformed my beliefs and perspective that struggle has become something that has greatly diminished and the remainder is the same reminder we all have to go to the Cross every day for the ability to live.

So, you think you have a homosexual orientation?  You think you are living in conflict with that and your faith and beliefs?  Wondering if that orientation will ever be fixed, go away or change to a heterosexual one? 

I can’t guarantee that your ‘feelings/temptations/attractions’ will go away or even subside.  I have lived at varying spectrums of this reality and even go through seasons still that are more difficult than others, but I have found that even amidst struggle a life of obedience is absolutely possible. The spiritually trying seasons are actually the ones that I look forward to these day — like an athlete looks forward to the beginning of training for competition. They are the seasons where you have to work the hardest to get in shape, but when prepared and executed well yields the best results.  It is in these demanding periods of time that the Lord beckons me to come to Him over the counterfeit pleasures that vie for my attentions and affections.  Denying them leads to their death and to living a freer and happier life.

For me, I did experience some shifting in what some might call orientation or attraction.  I got married in 1998 and I love my wife with all that I am.  I am attracted to her in every way and I love every part of our relationship together.  Like any relationship, ours takes work.  We are purposeful about loving one another, communicating with one another and understanding one another.  These things lead to a bond that anyone would be hard pressed to break.  But, as strong as our foundation and life together is, it alone cannot keep me from straying—or her for that matter. Our love is strong, but it is human and imperfect without the Lord at the center.  Loving and marrying my wife didn’t solidify my heterosexuality or put an end to the possibility that I could be tempted.  If anything our relationship has only served to push me to pursue Christ more vigorously. I know the devil would love for our marriage to end and for our kids’ lives to be shattered as a result.  Like my ministry role, my marriage makes me more of a target for the Enemy and for my human enemies.  So, I stay grounded and honest and realistic. I will struggle because I am human and there isn’t any cure for that in this life.

A Twig in the Fire

Conservative author Ann Coulter dropped a bomb with her inappropriate reference to Senator John Edwards as a "faggot," but the term "fagot" was not always a taboo word. It used to define a bundle sticks destined to burn in a fire. A "fagot ceremony" was when someone tossed a twig into the flames as a symbol of repentance and commitment. Such a ceremony might not be a bad idea for conservatives and liberals alike who have both committed transgressions in their zeal to debate cultural issues. Here are a few on the offense list.

Stop the name-calling. Lest anyone need reminding, Coulter said at the American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference, "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards." In subsequent comments, she remarked, "C'mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean." Obviously, she doesn't plan an apology.

In an ironic twist, another conservative drew scorn for an altogether different reason at the same event. Conservatives honored Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez for his support of the military at Columbia University, but when word got around on the blogosphere that Sanchez had a decade-plus past in gay porn, liberals were gleeful and attempted to smear him on MSNBC.
There was no apology on that front either.

There is nothing to be gained by denigrating others with crude slurs or personal attacks. In doing so, we disgrace ourselves and discredit the truths we seek to publicly elevate. Conservatives and liberals alike should unite to denounce this type of social discourse.

Stop the hypocrisy. It disturbs me to see policymakers and activists endorsing legislation such as the Federal Hate Crimes Legislation (H.R. 254) because it epitomizes the duplicity within our nation.

The death of Matthew Shepard is a tragic crime that deserved to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but not because Matthew Shepard was gay - because he was a valuable human life worthy of equal justice. Just as worthy as Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year old Arkansas boy who was suffocated to death in 1999 after being bound, drugged, gagged and brutally sodomized by two homosexual predators who confessed to using him as a sex toy while torturing him to death. There have been no public memorials for him and the amount of articles written about him pale in comparison to those written about Matthew Shepherd.  Yet, both were valuable lives that were taken in horrible, cruel ways.

I confess this legislation presents a problem for me personally and for many others.  Fourteen years ago, I was living life as a gay man just like Matthew Shepard. I, however, was conflicted by the emptiness that consumed me.  Through faith, the support of many caring individuals, including that of licensed therapists affiliated with the American Psychological Association, I overcame my unwanted same-sex attractions. Today, I am a married father of two children and now represent thousands of others who have experienced the same change. We are living lives that are of no less value now than when we were living as homosexuals.

In a recent editorial, Joe Solomonese from the Human Rights Campaign and Judy Shepard, Matthew Shepard's mother, said, "Every act of violence is tragic and harmful in its consequences, but not all crime is based on hate."  I wonder how they know the motive and emotion behind each perpetrator's crime. Certainly, there is no love and compassion extended towards the perpetrator's victim. Solomonese and Shepard add, "It's time to update the law to protect everyone."   I agree on that point. Let's make the law an equal advocate for every victim because every crime is truly a hate crime.

Stop the spin. This tactic is in employed a lot when same-sex marriage is debated as a civil right. It's not, but the spin makes it sound good.

As Rev. Bob Battle, a Minnesota pastor who served as the head of the St. Paul Human Rights Department, says, "The basics for the civil rights movement is that we are all God's children, created equal in God's eyes. As for marriage, God created us male and female. That's the basics for marriage," He gets it. He knows the difference having grown up in the days of segregation in Mississippi as an African-American.

This issue has nothing to do with civil rights, special rights maybe, but not civil rights.  Liberals and activists should not undermine the integrity of the American people by dressing up their agenda in civil rights language simply because it sounds better that way. Call it what it is - a rejection of marriage on the same terms that it is available to everyone else. It is a demand to reinvent an age-old institution and assign a new set of stipulations.

We could build a bonfire with all the twigs representing transgressions on both sides of the aisle, but these are strategic ones that inhibit real dialogue on issues that affect all Americans. Instead of name-calling, hypocritical juxtopositioning and spinning - let's engage in discourse that contributes to the national debate and elevates one another's dignity.

Swaggart’s Short Memory

You’d think that the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart’s message for those needing grace and redemption would be one of compassion and empathy mixed with the truth. After all it was Jimmy Swaggart that begged for grace and forgiveness more than a decade ago after it was revealed to the world that he had an active sexual addiction and was caught soliciting a prostitute. However, last week Rev. Swaggart made the anti-Christ statement that he would, “kill any gay man who looked at him romantically”.

It never ceases to amaze me how insecure some men are with their own manhood and masculinity that being the object of same sex attraction threatens and frightens them to the point that they would consider murder. Unnatural as same-sex attraction is, it is as repulsive to God as every other sin and just as forgivable.

As the President of the world’s leading outreach to those affected by unwanted homosexuality and a key educational resource for the church at large, I am thankful that Rev. Swaggart’s message of hate is now more the exception than the rule in Christendom. I believe that the years of irrational anger and hatred for the same-sex attracted is coming to an end within the Body of Christ. I am proud that ministries like Focus on the Family through their Love Won Out Conference and Exodus International have helped make a life changing difference in the Church.

It is my prayer that Jimmy Swaggart and all others who have been the undeserving recipients of grace will in turn offer grace to others and that the hateful rhetoric that God abhors will end. After all it is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance.

Mr. Swaggart, I think you should apologize for misrepresenting Christ and hurting a group of people that already hate the Church for this very reason.

Will July 4th be the Next Anniversary Hijacked by the Gay Political Elite?

Forgive me if that question offends you, but after watching the over coverage of the Massachusetts same-sex marriage battle and the under coverage of the 50th anniversary of a true American hallmark, the Brown vs. the Board of Education victory, I believe no holiday is safe from being usurped.

Fifty years ago, on May 17, 1954, this country witnessed the end of segregation in our nation’s public schools with the renowned court case Brown vs. the Board of Education. You’d think there would have been more media fanfare of this important milestone. Black Americans, both those who led the courageous fight to see racial oppression and inequality end and those that today benefit from that liberation, deserved better. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much reported on the anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education on the nations airwaves because members of the Gay Elite hijacked a legitimate civil rights triumph with their battle for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and trumped Black Americans for coverage.

Hijacking has become commonplace for members of the Gay Elite. For instance, in the 1950’s ‘gay’ was a term commonly used to describe happiness and joy. In the late 1960’s homosexual activists stole the word from the American language and today ‘gay’ is synonymous with the word homosexual. It may seem insignificant to you, but I assure you commandeering a word meaning ‘happiness’ was extremely calculated and helped to begin the watering down process of how our society views homosexuality and those who identify as homosexual.

Another example of this hijacking involved the rainbow. Once a secular and Christian symbol for promise and hope, today the only rainbow stickers, signs and flags you’ll find are on the bumpers, porches and t-shirts of those who identify as ‘gay’. Indeed, there is no mistaking the move towards equating the rainbow’s message of hope and promise with the gayness of homosexuality. In the early 1990’s when I was living as a self-identified homosexual man, the ‘gay’ community co-opted another term; this time it was one that carried far more weight and had much greater worth: the word family. In my ‘gay’ days we began to identify our own as ‘family’.

The polls in America are clear: black, white and Hispanic, Republican and Democrat, male and female Americans overwhelmingly support marriage as the union involving one man and one woman for one lifetime. Yesterday, however, homosexuals became beneficiaries of an incredibly successful and well fought campaign to overhaul the way America views them. Fifteen short years ago homosexuality was a moral taboo, an inappropriate topic of conversation on sitcoms, in the news, at the dinner table and in public. Today, same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts and on its way to your state, town and neighborhood, like it or not. The incredibly organized, politically powerful and well-funded Gay Elite have won this battle that will redefine the foundation of what every society since the beginning of time has held dear: marriage. The amount of opposition homosexuals felt as they fought to redefine marriage felt about as powerful as a strong breeze on a warm day at Disney—you know, the home of the annual ‘Gay Days’ event that draws tens of thousands of ‘gays’ to Orlando on the first Saturday of June.

I believe we have only ourselves to blame. While a faithful few have been battling to preserve marriage by trying to rally the troops at great personal cost, unfortunately the majority of conservative Americans, politicians and even Christians have seemingly sat idly by and done nothing. Many Americans were content to watch this on the news and chose not to stand up for what they believe. Honestly, I believe that a great number of Americans are apathetic, inwardly focused, embroiled in their own perversions or so passive that it would take a catastrophe to move them. If you do not know what to do, ask those of us who are on the forefront of this battle and we will gladly put you to work!

It’s not too late. I believe that our only hope is for the Church to rise up, put its hand up to the advancement of immorality, inside and outside the Church, and its hand out for those needing to be liberated from the captivity of sexual sin. Hero Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best: “The Church is neither the master of the state nor the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.” I am praying that America’s conscience is restored and that the Church is victorious.

Jesus' Word on Homosexuality

Recently Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas stated that, Jesus never said anything about homosexuality, which isn’t necessarily the truth. More accurately, the Bible doesn’t have a record of Jesus speaking out for or against homosexuality; then again, the Bible wasn’t a complete transcript of Jesus’ 33-year life.

Jesus' recorded words were originally spoken to people that already knew that homosexuality was a sin; the truths that Jesus spoke of and the laws that he lived by were reflective of both God's creative intent for humanity and the man made laws of the time. Homosexuality was not only one of eight abominable practices in God's eyes and an absolute misuse of His design for physical, emotional and sexual expression, but it was also a crime under the Jewish and Roman laws of the time. Jesus did not need to mention this act specifically as he did not mention incest, bestiality, drug abuse or domestic violence; these acts were well understood and accepted prohibitions.

Jesus did, however, make it abundantly clear what He was for. He said in Matthew 5:17 that he, did not come to destroy the law (the Old Testament) but rather to fulfill it. He also affirmed God's best for sexual and relational intimacy in Matthew 19 where he spoke of marriage in the only form that has ever been acceptable to God: between one man and one woman for one lifetime. Jesus may not have literally spoken about the issue of homosexuality, but the Bible clearly does both in the Old and New Testaments. In II Timothy 3:16 it boldly states, All scripture is God-breathed. God is clear about what He is for and about what He is against and it is clear that the Bible is His written word to His creation; God never changes His moral standards.

Suffice it to say, I do not have a problem with anyone exercising their right to believe or to speak about their beliefs, but one should not presume to speak for Jesus when the Bible does so without error.

Letter to The Boston Globe

Dear Ms. Chinlund (Ombusdman for The Boston Globe):

My name is Alan Chambers and I used to be gay. It is because of my great interest in the education of young people on the subject of healthy sexuality that I am writing you today regarding the article 'HOPE FOR THE FUTURE' WITH THE RIGHT TO MARRY IN THE BALANCE, GAY TEENS DREAM OF A WEDDING DAY. Within the article there were many factual discrepensies that I would like for you and the Globe to address.

First of all, I find it incredible that the Boston Globe is promoting teenage marriage. A 16 year old boy is barely able to committ to Friday night plans let alone a life partner. I highly doubt that this subject would have been broached if Patrick was interested in marrying a 16 year old girl. No one in their right mind would encourage high school students to marry at such a young, emotional and underdeveloped age. However, there is a double standard when it comes to the relentless promotion of all things homosexual. Because Patrick wants to marry another boy marriage is all of a sudden okay for those underage. How can the Globe logically argue in favor of high school students getting married? Why not encourage post high-school education, continued physical and emotional maturation, settling into a career and other life skills that will encourage healthy personal and societal growth? Don’t you know that those who marry in high school are less likely to finish their education, almost guaranteed not to go to college and more apt to ask society to foot their bill via welfare programs? Don’t you know that those who marry very young are at greater risk for divorce because they were too young to make an informed decision?

As for the fact that this was a pro-homosexual marriage piece, I found the article devoid of responsibility and wise counsel for young people in need of life-giving advice and direction. The statistics are alarming: the number one killer of gay men is still AIDS related illness. One of the highest rates of HIV infection is in gay young men between the ages of 16 – 25. With monogamous gay relationships lasting, on average, 2 months you have just encouraged two minors to marry one another when they will likely be divorced within a year only to repeat the viscious and emotionally destructive cycle again.

The Boston Globe has a responsibility to print the facts and this article was seriously lacking where facts are concerned. How about reporting that no study has ever been successful in linking homosexuality to genetic or biological factors. How about quoting Dr. Dean Hamer, a gay researcher, who conducted the infamous study on chromosomes and later stated that it was his finding that female homoxexuality was 100% developmental and that it was his belief that this would be proven to be the case with male homosexuality, as well. How about promoting more study, research and open dialogue concerning the emotional, medical and psychological facts concerning homosexuality. How about presenting the truth that tens of thousands of men and women have successfully changed their sexual orientation and that teaching any thing less than further education and sexual maturity among teenagers is wreckless and life threatening.

Don’t make furthering a politcal agenda more important than the lives of young people.

Sincerely,

Alan Chambers