June 10, 2025
We all know that the secular world is opposed to the very idea that same-sex attraction seeks all sorts of therapy and spiritual advice that could allow people with the opposite sex to reach a healthy state of relationship. But the strange thing is that many Catholics seem to have bought this. Many assume that if someone is not currently attracted to the opposite sex, this is a static, lifelong state and therefore must be called to a single person. However, this view includes multiple misconceptions of SSA experiences, anthropology, the power of God’s grace, and the goodness of singleness itself.
Today’s guests know that both have a gay charm background, but they don’t because they are each married to children. Andrew Comiskey and Marco Casanova run desert creeks and Living Waters Ministries, and have for decades provided help to Christians seeking healing from sexual disorders (including but not limited to SSA). This conversation provides spiritually and psychologically sound and empirically based answers to several controversial questions about how the church should be pastors of same-sex attractions.
It’s not a “conversion therapy.” It’s about conversion in the Catholic sense – one day at a time.
-Do we really place the ceiling in God’s ability to heal psychologically?
– Are there any attempts at such a healing amount in the secular insects of “conversion therapy”?
-What does life look like for a “gay” past person who is currently married to the opposite sex?
– Is it legal to accept a gay identity unless Christians act sexually?
– Is there anything like a chaste same-sex romantic relationship?
link
Thomas Mills, “Your sexual pathology doesn’t make you special”
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/your-sexual-pothology-doesnt-make-you-pecial/
Andrew Comiskey, Rediscovering Lost Blood: A Guide to Sexual Integration
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/rediscovering-our-lost-fullness/
Dessert Stream Ministries http://www.desertstream.org/
YouTube Desert Ogawa https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucjvujqreephvikjwltuwxbg
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