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GOD’S DESIGN FOR SEXUALITY & CONFUSED TEENS ON HOMOSEXUALITY

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Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. Illustrates Jesus' description of himself "I am the Good Shepherd" (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). This version of the image shows the detail of his face. The memorial window is also captioned: "To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of William Wright. Died 6th November, 1932. Aged 70 Yrs." (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) People have always had questions about sex and sexuality, and the Bible gives some powerful answers to many of those questions. When Jesus was asked about divorce and remarriage, for example, He pointed back to the very beginning, to God ’s design for humanity at creation. He talked to people about the way things were supposed to be, the way God intended before man disobeyed Him. MALE AND FEMALE Jesus first reminded his followers that God made us in His own image, male and female . Our masculinity or femi

Therapy to change feminine boy created suicide

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The family of a man who was involved in a 10-month experimental gender identity therapy program in the 1970s, in the process of which he was allegedly violently abused by his father, is blaming the therapy for their son’s distress and suicide in 2003. Both CNN host  Anderson Cooper  and the prominent gay rights blog  Box Turtle Bulletin  this week released detailed reports on the story of Kirk Murphy, the five-year-old subject of a government-funded study on gender identity disorder in the early 1970s. The purpose of the therapy was to discourage effeminate behavior in Kirk, who his family says grew up maladjusted and was found hanged in his room in 2003 at the age of 38. The family has not indicated that Kirk gave a reason for the suicide, but now claims that his therapy sessions at UCLA at the age of five should be blamed for his demise. Kirk’s mother Kaytee became aware of the possibility of therapy in 1970 through a television broadcast by gender identity expert Dr. Richard G