Spanish bishop publishes ex-gay testimonies

Spanish bishop publishes ex-gay testimonies on diocesan website after attacks from homosexual groups Juan Antonio Reig Plà, the Catholic bishop of the Spanish diocese of Alcalá De Henares, has responded …More
Spanish bishop publishes ex-gay testimonies on diocesan website after attacks from homosexual groups
Juan Antonio Reig Plà, the Catholic bishop of the Spanish diocese of Alcalá De Henares, has responded to recent attacks by homosexual groups by posting testimonies on his website of individuals who rejoice in their abandonment of the homosexual lifestyle.
“I want to thank especially those who feel, or have felt, Same-Sex Attraction (SSA), and have seen fit to send me your testimonies; more than one hundred of you have written your experiences up to now,” writes Reig Plà. “I must thank you because I have seen in them the hand of God and I have learned much from your suffering and your hopes.”
Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Plà
He adds that those who have written “are collaborating in this way to break the barrier of silence regarding the possibility of change for those who freely wish to do so, and that’s why it’s important to publish and spread them!”
The letters were published following a …More
Reesorville
For certain a homosexual orientation is a defect from God's plan and that following the feelings to commit homosexual acts is sinful.
However, the bishop is a bishop, and not a doctor or a neural scientist, and he isn't in an authoritative position to speak about whether homosexual tendencies can be cured through therapy.
I think he and others in the church are putting themselves in a dangerous …More
For certain a homosexual orientation is a defect from God's plan and that following the feelings to commit homosexual acts is sinful.

However, the bishop is a bishop, and not a doctor or a neural scientist, and he isn't in an authoritative position to speak about whether homosexual tendencies can be cured through therapy.

I think he and others in the church are putting themselves in a dangerous position if they go beyond what is written in the catechism about the sinfulness of the acts, and state that there is a scientific or therapeutic method of cure. In the event that further research finds that such methods don't work, don't work completely or if they only work for a portion of people, if leaders of the church state to the contrary, it ends up with tending to discredit the voice of the church in the eyes of the wider world. To know that homosexuality is against God's plan doesn't mean that 'born gay' is necessarily a hoax and that scientific conclusions must be assumed by what agrees with the arguments of apologists. We should remember Galileo.

When the church does speak about these acts as being wrong it is speaking with a voice that the rest of society is largely abandoning as it tends to think that the right thing to be done with them is to let them become slaves of their own desires and kill their own souls in the process by doing the sinful acts. The church is speaking with a voice of love for homosexuals, because there is no other person who has their best interests in mind than God and no other home where they understand how to live their life to its fullness than in the church.

God bless,