To: Suma who wrote (94955 ) 11/9/2008 5:27:20 PM From: Katelew Read Replies (2) | Respond to Suma, I'm very open and interested in all scientific study of sexual orientation issues. My guess is that the Mormon church would be, too. We've always been a church that charted its own course....adding to and subtracting from traditional theology...and historically the church has changed it's position on many issues of the day. The church hierarchy exists of a president, two counselors, and a council of twelve (as in the twelve apostles). Among their duties is to retreat and prayerfully consider proposed changes to church doctrine. We reject that notion that God spoke only once to man 2000 years ago, and we're now supposed to make do with a Bible that went through numerous historical changes and ended with a vote on what to include and exclude. if I asked you to be a homosexual and gave you counseling to be one do you think you really could change ? I don't know. What I do know, though, is that I've personally seen scores of people make amazing and dramatic changes in terms of overcoming obstacles. The kind you see in TV movies. Converts to the church who take a spiritual retreat and in two days turn away from 20-30 years of substance abuse and with no withdrawal or side effects. Slow learner dropouts that become college professors. I could talk for hours on this. Some too complicated to post but that almost defy known scientific or medical reality....at least to my understanding.
