I’m offended when the author states having a medical Disorder of Sexual Development is a medical problem. Medical disorders dont equate with a “problem”. I’m 74 years old, have a congenital medical disorder that has never been regarded as a problem by me or my doctors. “Problem” is a subjective opinion of the author’s. He needs to retire from healthcare practice. I’d hate to have him practicing on me.

I could not agree more emphatically! This may be the most important reason that God treats sex so seriously. Indeed, the stakes are so high, that any reasonable person must concede, that birth control failure rates are unacceptably high.

But, alas, there is a huge ‘loophole’ in this otherwise unassailable argument: Why is homosexuality forbidden? Men NEVER get pregnant! If Christians strongly sexually tempted resort to homosexual practice, as a ‘stop-gap’ until marriage, to prevent the Creation of new Eternal Souls, does this motive make homosexuality become by far the lesser sin? Remember, Christians still sin occasionally.

Even more dramatic, is the case of persons with known serious genetic defects, and/or too disabled to properly care for a child even in marriage. The moral imperative for them, to not Create any Eternal new Souls, may last throughout life. What are these people to do, given that Christians still sin occasionally? It only takes once to Create that new Eternal Soul! Also, the Bible concedes that lifetime celibacy is a gift given only to some.

Jesus didn’t die for your sins so you wouldn’t have to take responsibility for them. Time to fess up to the spiritual (and often physical) abuse you’ve committed.

The lines are clear now. We stand on God’s word or we do not!

God does promote wickedness, people are supporting gay with hidden agenda because seeing dangers of anus tearing and go ahead and call it good and then you blame God. Please don’t envolve God in your wickedness.

Mike, you are such an encourager! (But I know you know that.) Thanks for your courageous stand for the truth. I appreciate you.

Thank you so much, John. Your words have encouraged me. Yes, I will keep writing!

Thank you, Christian. I listen every week – that was a definite error!

Dr. Gieseke, I am sorry to learn about your friend. In understanding all that you described here, I am joining you in prayer that he will listen and obey the Holy Spirit and to trust God. We also need more healthcare professionals trained, better equipped and more knowledgeable in palliative care and hospice care.

I appreciate your analysis on the Harry Potter books, but even more the discussion on gender transitioning. I met Dr. Don decades ago at a medical conference in Monroe (Richard’s dad) and have your book “Hope in the Face of Cancer.” As a long time member of CMDA, I’ve noted a number of your excellent articles. Please keep writing!

John

Hi, Dr. Young. I hear and understand your frustration. At many things happening I shake my head, realizing that ultimately, it begins on our knees. Praying for our nation and world and let it begin with us.

“Lord, have mercy” is what I am saying as well, Dr. Yoo. Praying and we must continue to educate the public on the truth of this issue.

Thank you for this article, I enjoyed the perspective. Just a tiny correction, the cohost of Advisory Opinions is Sarah Isgur (not Susan Isgur).

This is a great comment! It’s true, I have a volunteer who helps at our healing center, who is just as faithful. She is always giving, and honestly during Covid. I don’t know what I would’ve done without her. When we serve others all the time, what a blessing it is, when someone comes alongside us!

Not only are they suggesting surgical intervention, they are doing it.

See: Keira Bell. Chloe Cole.

The saying LGBT Lifestyle is “Not by Choice” is story on Fools Day.

Temptations of attraction are at a blink of an eye in Every Living Man and it’s the CHOICE one makes that determines the action.

Nothing in the world is OUT OF CONTROL to the knowledge of man, God gave man a gift called wisdom to deal with all challeges even the earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tsunamis can be avoided by staying out of their way and territories. Of course not everyone has got wisdom, some choose not to take it at all in the name of self defense denial trying to prove an abnormality.
If a baby or person is born with an abnormality which is not by choice Doctors & scientists have been given the gift to put it right either through Medical Operation if it’s physical abnormality or through Medical Therapy if it’s Phycological or Mental abnormality. If Scientists didn’t exist life on Earth would be history.
Humans have different IQ capacities if yours is lower it can be improved but don’t defend it or convince the world that it’s perfect and that it should be accepted the way it is. First of same sex bullshit pleasure is not productive anything that’s not productive has 0 Dollar value, very useless and has no place in this world.
Every micro second In this world a life is lost a baby, girl or boy, man or woman dies in some places millions of life are lost at a blink of an eye in other words life on Earth depends on sex that is productive.
These same sex bullshit pleasures don’t add on human life thus LGBT lifestyle is an enemy of Humanity nothing Personal.

Nothing in the world is out of control to the knowledge of man, God gave man a gift called wisdom to deal with all challeges even the earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tsunamis can be avoided by staying out of their way and territories. Of course not everyone has got wisdom, some choose not to take it at all in the name of self defense denial trying to prove an abnormality.
If a baby or person is born with an abnormality which is not by choice Doctors & scientists have been given the gift to put it right either through Medical Operation if it’s physical abnormality or through Medical Therapy if it’s Phycological or Mental abnormality. If Scientists didn’t exist life on Earth would be history.
Humans have different IQ capacities if yours is lower it can be improved but don’t defend it or convince the world that it’s perfect and that it should be accepted the way it is. First of same sex bullshit pleasure is not productive anything that’s not productive has 0 Dollar value, very useless and has no place in this world.
Every micro second In this world a life is lost a baby, girl or boy, man or woman dies in some places millions of life are lost at a blink of an eye in other words life on Earth depends on sex that is productive.
These same sex bullshit pleasures don’t add on human life thus LGBT lifestyle is an enemy of Humanity nothing Personal.

Homosexual,,, Jesus loves you please change 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

To call gender reassignment surgery mutilation kind of betrays your prejudice doesn’t it? I think you know that no one is suggesting surgical intervention on “youths.” This is just a simple straw-man and really sets off the Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus antennae as far as I am concerned. This is a complex issue and deserves more study and and certainly a more thorough and nuanced analysis than you seem able to provide. To announce yourself as an expert and then provide such facile analyses makes you more a politician, less a physician.

3. Refrain from judgmentalism.

Those struggling with sexual issues are not our enemies and deserve to be treated with compassion. People are lonely all around us. Increasingly, they lack the skills to form stable relationships, and if even if they have the skill, they are challenged to find an equally mature partner. They didn’t choose to have a powerfully alluring sex drive. They didn’t choose their parents. They didn’t choose to be born into a culture flooded with distorted sexual messages and pornography. To the lonely, sex is like morphine. It provides immediate though temporary relief, is highly addictive and usually ends badly. What the lonely need, however, is not sex but family and friendship. (This is not to deny that there are many who are indeed predators—the true winners in the modern sexual ethos).

4. Choose compassion over control.

“Christians cannot speak to the world about sex in a compelling way if we merely answer the story with a list of moral imperatives, however Biblical” (PCA Committee Report, p. 35).

Nothing in the New Testament obliges us to regulate the lives of those outside the church fold beyond the pursuit of justice and mercy. If you are more passionate about politics than people, apologetics may not be your calling. While sexual sins inflict a disproportionate toll on health and relationships, the church has not historically considered them among the gravest. With regard to fornication, Aquinas wrote: “a sin is the less grievous according as it is committed under the impulse of a greater passion…of all a Christian’s conflicts, the most difficult combats are those of chastity; wherein the fight is a daily one, but victory rare.”

Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! You hold a special place in our hearts as well!

Thanks, Annie! Missed seeing you at WPDC! Hoping for this year!

Thanks, Gloria! You are one of my personal examples the church doing better in so many ways!

Thanks for your comments. I think maybe you are missing the major point I was making. My goal in this piece was not to discuss the theology of sexual sin (which is an important, but different, conversation) but to highlight the ways in which sexual sins are treated differently than other sins by the church. These specific sins are treated as if they are worse than others, and people with these struggles are treated as second class citizens within many Christian circles. This is the reality I was highlighting. And I do think it’s true that a Christian leader can’t accurately teach about any life struggle without some context and some effort to understand the experience of those who walk that struggle. I would not call that “consulting the practitioners of a sin.” I would call it a human relationship with broken people.

After reading you essay, it seems your “toxic emotions” of shame, grief, anger, etc. could also be triggered by a Statement of Jesus or a Letter from Paul the apostle. Both routinely taught in places of worship. Jesus also reached out to individuals with love and compassion, but He was not silent on holiness with them either. After offering love and forgiveness, he commanded a change in their life. (Think the rich young ruler or the women caught in adultery.)

You appear to be triggered by the topic of God’s sexual boundaries as found in the Bible. It is important to remember that other christians may be triggered by the call to holiness in other aspects of their lives. We can not stop discussing what God calls us to just because it is uncomfortable. His path is narrow and it will be seen as unaccepting by some. The Church should be loving and inviting. It should also spur believers on to the life that God has for us. It is clear that God has prescribed boundaries for us in many aspects of life. When we pick and choose, we place ourselves over God.

As Preston mentioned above, I reject the notion that a person must have personal experience with a topic to be able to discuss it or hold an appropriate position. In medicine, I routinely advise people against cigarette use even though I have not experienced the satisfaction or social shame associated with use.

I am sorry that you are suffering through this and that your son is tempted to pursue the temporary, false love and acceptance offered by the world. However, to place the blame on the lack of love by the church or christian institutions completely ignores the main problem.

God is both love and truth.

Respectfully

I appreciate your perspective and encouragement in this article.

Thanks for your comment, Carol. I truly do feel your pain. And I believe the church can and must do better! Feel free to contact me anytime if you need to talk. I think it’s critical that those of us who can understand one another’s experience support each other.

Thank you, Mike!

He loves his children surely but he didn’t creat gays a point of correction he created you and gave you self drive so you drove your self to gay got the point sweetie

But you clearly stated it’s a disorder, Or are also not sure of how to describe the absurdity

I think having such sexual attraction towards the same sex is psychologically mutation am sorry to say the bitter truth but even the most attractive peacocks would never mate with a fellow peacock because of the attractiveness I think there’s a deeper reason to why some of you turn out that way and I don’t find a problem with you because I believe you just can’t also afford to believe that you can’t reverse nature man was never bound for man and neither woman for woman the day you will appreciate that you were made that way is the day your mental pieces will be gathered to form a better picture of you but if not you will continue to believe that you’re seen as dirty even when nobody cares because that’s the truth and the truth always prevails because the rapid developing world nolonger has time to spare for a few wayward people it’s just that we are only concerned about the dangers it can bring to us but not directly concerned about your category think about it . You think the whole world will stop functioning if you die of some STD or so on? No we will continue to live,love and laugh as long as you keep it to yourself and don’t let it out to others okay. I love you all.

I think the negative response of the environment is nothing to all the negatives facing the GLBT because there’s no way society is going to cause disorders to their bodies it’s the guilt haunting them psychologically because they also can’t believe they are the reverse of normality because such behavior is abnormal and different and naturally nature can’t take something that’s so awkwardly different from it’s expectations and it be against it. It’s really abnormal so I don’t think society is to blame. Because it’s not even possible for a sheep regarded as the dumbest animal to mate with a fellow male or female then what about humans and imagine if you found sheep male and male mating wouldn’t it be an absurd phenomenal to your eyes?

It is a blessing to serve, Cynthia.

Very true, Dr. Denekas–abortion is NOT “reproductive healthcare.” Thank you for your comment!

Thank you, Amy. The contrast between the two is so clear and sobering. Grateful for the work, resources and support of pregnancy resource centers. Lives are being saved and changed!

Every heterosexual I know are either drug addicts or child molesters and brought extreme pain to they’re family and friends so it can go either way

I agree but there is one thing that is more accurate then science
God
Good luck my brother

Yes they do. I don’t care what you think about it, that is the world’s truth. They all chose to be gay and then say that they didn’t because they don’t want to take the blame for their sin. BUT a time will come when you stand before the gates of heaven and take all the blame for your sin.
Good luck brother, I hope you seek God’s truth

Um, yes I have talked to a gay person, many in fact because I’m in high school and those people are not okay 90% of them had problems with friends or family that they blamed on themselves so they seemed out homosexuality, the other 10% are gay because all of their friends are gay. So when someone says that there aren’t any mental of health problems, you are dead wrong.

Bob…that is the point exactly! Those who are raising this argument are purposely trying to deceive. Unfortunately, their deception is creating fear among patients and even a few healthcare professionals.

Grotesque? I’m sorry, I wouldn’t call having unusual sexual desires grotesque. Being a homosexual teenager myself I find it completely ridiculous that people are trying to find ways to label being homosexual as dirty and negative. If straight men can find women beautiful and soft, why can’t queer women appreciate women’s beauty in the same way? If straight women can find men attractive, then why can’t queer men love other men? We are not living in the 1800’s, if people want to love their own gender, why can’t they? The bible was written during a time where being homosexual would get you killed, and Jesus didn’t write the bible..So how can we know what he is truly thinking? Jesus could have been gay or bisexual, would you love him any less? He did all of these miracles.. does being gay change that and automatically make him a bad person? I think not. Gay people have feelings too. Don’t make it hard for them to come out. Love thy neighbor, I know that I do, regardless of their beliefs.

Thank you Don!! The prayers of the saints are what sustain us!

Bob

Bob