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Why I Forsook Gay Identity, Part 1: Introduction | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. Why I Forsook Gay Identity, Part 1: Introduction. What it means is radically altering the role that the fact of your homosexual attractions plays in your thinking about your self and your life. 8221; crowd and the “How dare you NOT call yourself gay? I’ve wrestled with this subject off and on for a long time, but this. With her about all those things. The intriguing question for me was:. Although I don’t get into it ex...

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What Has Stuttering To Do With…? | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. What Has Stuttering To Do With…? The Internet Monk has a post up called “Remembering the Stutterer.”. When I started to read it, I was like, “Ho hum, why exactly am I reading this? Who cares about stuttering anyway? But then I got into his discussion of what he learned from his experience as a stutterer, and found it startlingly relevant to the subject matter of this blog. Here are the point headings within his discussion.

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Update / “DM-lite?” | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. Update / “DM-lite? Baby DM is very healthy, very happy overall, and she’s gone from cute to. Her moving in any way besides the half-roll, which obviously doesn’t get her very far, but today when she was playing on this big blanket I have spread out for her and my back was momentarily turned, she somehow got mobile. I turned around to find her completely off the blanket, licking one of my flip-flops. (UGH! You can follow any ...

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WIFGI 4.2: Why Hating the Church Was a Bad Thing | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. WIFGI 4.2: Why Hating the Church Was a Bad Thing. Continued from 4.1. I’m mostly concerned with only one facet of the church in this post–the church as our spiritual family, as the local fellowship of believers who we shouldn’t forsake meeting with, the Hebrews 10:25. I’m not sure when exactly I realized that the situation I describe in the previous post. 8220;Look how shallow they are! Some of them don’t even kiss the...

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WIFGI 4.1: How I Came to Hate the Church | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. WIFGI 4.1: How I Came to Hate the Church. Previous Installments: ( Part 1. 8211;from DM’s application to the residential program. Reason #2: My gay identity got in the way of my loving the church, and my identification with my brothers and sisters in Christ. Will be about how I came to realize that this was a mistake.). I’m NOT saying we should abandon solidarity and empathy with gay people. Out of me. Despite the samene...

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Breeder | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. This post is going to be about baby/mom stuff, and not at all gay/exgay related. I’ll get back on track with the issues soon. But I think some people might want to know how we’re doing. If you don’t, just skip this. There are no incisive criticisms or deep insights below.). So the big news first: Baby DM was born almost two months ago. :). She’s awfully cute. And it was really challenging for Mr. DM and I as a couple, th...

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Tomorrow – a day! | Which way to life?

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Which way to life? I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10. Laquo; Liking your best friends is frustrating. I don’t know if you actually are…. Tomorrow – a day! Somehow and some way I shall find the joy in it. I shall seek the joy of all the things. I shall be who I am and I shall be it as much as I choose. Difficulty is reality, it is part of life. It is not a reason to clam up. But oh how clamming is my favourite response to all my doubts! Feed You can leave a response.

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Why I Forsook Gay Identity, Part 3: Openness | Disputed Mutability

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Reflections on ex-gay issues and other matters of faith, sexuality, and culture. Why I Forsook Gay Identity, Part 3: Openness. Okay, enough groundwork. The rest of this series will be spent discussing five reasons why I gave up my gay identity, one reason per post. The posts are arranged so that they should get increasingly interesting as the series progresses, so if you think this one is stupid, you can just check out right now and come back later.). Me, so unworthy of the ideal vision of DM that I have.