{"id":2884,"date":"2010-06-11T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/exorcising-gay-exorcism\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T23:23:00","slug":"exorcising-gay-exorcism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/exorcising-gay-exorcism.html","title":{"rendered":"Exorcising Gay Exorcism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wp\/docs\/thumbs\/itemBlogBoxHomepage\/thumb-homodemonmckinney.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wp\/docs\/thumbs\/itemBlogBoxHomepage\/thumb-homodemonmckinney.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2010\/06\/11\/gay-exorcism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unreasonable Faith has a post today about \u201cGay Exorcism\u201d<\/a> \u2013 the attempt to treat homosexuality as a demon and command it to come out of a homosexual in Jesus\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p>When such attempts fail to have any effect on the person, and clearly do not render the person heterosexual, should this not lead Christians to conclude that homosexuality is not caused by demon possession? <\/p>\n<p>If not, what could possibly render the above as anything other than a logical conclusion? Or is this yet another example of an instance where fundamentalist Christians are willing to overlook not only evidence and logic, but the dishonor they are giving to Jesus when they make repeated <a href=\"http:\/\/media.animevice.com\/uploads\/0\/91\/49054-stupidity_super.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">failed attempts at exorcising<\/a> \u201cdemons of homosexuality\u201d in his name? If even the honor of Jesus cannot persuade such so-called Christians, what can?<\/p>\n<p>Contrast the approach of the aforementioned exorcists with that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drjackrogers.com\/2010\/06\/david-myers-reviews-jesus-the-bible-and-homosexuality-in-perspectives-magazine.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Jack Rogers<\/a>, whose book <em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Bible-Homosexuality-Explode-Church\/dp\/066423397X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=066423397X\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/span><\/em> has been<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rca.org\/Page.aspx?pid=6570\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> reviewed in <em>Perspectives<\/em><\/a>, a publication of the Reformed Church of America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9148840236645131568?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unreasonable Faith has a post today about \u201cGay Exorcism\u201d \u2013 the attempt to treat homosexuality as a demon and command it to come out of a homosexual in Jesus\u2019 name. 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