Reply #41: He did. He just didn't want it. [View All]

It's the concept that we all have our own "crosses" to bear, i.e. difficult trials or temptations we have to deal with on a regular basis. He probably felt that his homosexuality was his cross to bear, and he was asking God to take it away because it was too much.

It's sad, though, since he obviously felt he was born evil and sinful. How can he think that he was "a sinner in the hands of an angry God" at the age of five? He didn't understand that God doesn't do that to people--make them evil before even having a chance to deal with it.

I don't understand the issue against homosexuality, personally, and I never have, not even when I was an evangelical. If a couple wants to get married, then marry them. The rest is between them and really in God's hands anyway. Let's not encourage people to run around in secret and then flog themselves afterwards for being who they are.