“…God permit’s the devil to blind and delude many who merit this by their sins and audacities…For with God’s permission they have already been affected by the spirit of misunderstanding.” In these words, from the ever brilliant St. John of the Cross, I have found some of the answers I seek. For, I have tried in vain to originate some original explanation within myself to explain why my gay brothers and sisters have been so deceived; and have shut out the Healing Truth of Christ. The answer? In essence, as with all the workings of the universe: God has permitted it. But this makes me wonder even further: Why? Again, John of the Cross answers: “…God allowed them to be blinded is the explanation for their unbelief, for in their attachment they wanted events to happen and God to answer according to their own desires and appetites.”
Ever present, in the gay culture, is the overriding demand that all social, economic, political, and even religious institutions and structures conform to their self-conception of themselves. This was most evident in The American Psychological Association’s publication “Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation” which effectively negates all spiritual beliefs that do not fully accept the sexually active homosexual orientation. (see: http://www.josephsciambra.com/2014/07/the-american-psychological-association.html) Sadly, these demands leave very little room for Our Lord Jesus Christ. In those circumstances: “The devil then intervenes, answering in harmony with that person’s desire and pleasure; and since the devil’s replies and communications are pleasing and satisfactory, that man will let himself become seriously deluded.”
And, such is the current state of “gay” Christianity; i.e. it either totally caters to the homosexual mind-set or rejects it completely and, through lack of charity or unwillingness to outreach, never finds the Truth of Christ’s destiny for those afflicted with same-sex attraction. But: What is that destiny? Initially, it is that dark place that gays do not want to go: the often painful and hidden memories of the past; of being abused; of being neglected; of feeling unloved. Fundamentally, this is the Cross. Thus, only through the Cross will purification and true enlightenment be possible: “Hence the dark night…is the means to the knowledge of both God and self.”