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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1067715)	5/3/2018 8:06:09 PM
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Gay Pulse Nightclub Survivor Turns to Jesus, Walks Away from Homosexuality by peterheck To hear NBC and the larger LGBT movement tell it, you’d think that people like Luis Ruiz don’t exist. But they do. Well this doesn’t fit the narrative at all: A survivor of the June 2016 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 49 people dead now says he has found Christ and is no longer gay. “I should have been number 50!,” Luis Javier Ruiz said in a message posted to Facebook. “Going through old pictures of the night of Pulse, I remember my struggles of perversion, heavy drinking to drown out everything and having promiscuous sex that led to HIV. My struggles were real! The enemy had its grip, and now God has taken me from that moment and has given me Christ.” Pray for Luis – not just for his healing and perseverance in the faith, but for what is about to happen to him. It’s one of the great ironies of the sexual anarchist movement. They demand that everyone’s sexual choices be respected, but they are utterly unwilling to respect the sexual orientation and sexual choices of those like Luis who decide not to indulge their urges. Even in this story, NBC abandoned any pretension of objectivity and spent the entire second half of their report on Ruiz’s conversion to Christ by peddling LGBT political talking points: The controversial practice of trying to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity is often referred to as “conversion therapy.” A long list of health organizations have spoken out against the medically debunked practice, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of School Psychologists, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Counseling Association. NBC then proceeds to dive into an explanation of how bans on conversion therapy are exploding across the country. It's unfortunate though certainly unsurprising that NBC conflates so-called conversion therapy (attempts to recondition someone from having homosexual attractions to having heterosexual ones) and conversion to Christ. I can’t speak for Mr. Ruiz, but a great number of people with same-sex attraction find their identity in Christ. That means that their “orientation” or attractions may never change, but their willingness to act on them or be defined by them is surrendered in obedience to Jesus. That’s the case with Christians regardless of the sin they struggle with – desire for sin doesn’t disappear, it’s just that we have found something better than indulging those urges. To hear NBC and the larger LGBT movement tell it, you’d think that people like Luis Ruiz don’t exist, or if they do, they are total frauds. But they aren’t. They’re real. They’re sinners saved by the grace of a Savior whose resurrection power can transform any of us, regardless of our past, regardless of our sexual preferences, into a new creation. themaven.net