Finding Acceptance: Reconciling Spiritual Faith & Homosexuality

Take Back Your Mind

Michael B. Beckwith

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s Life Question comes from someone who, at age 51, finally came out of the closet but still struggles with old religious judgments over her homosexuality.

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0:00.0	Peace and Rich's blessings.
0:34.4	And welcome to the Life Question of the Week podcast of Take Back Your Mind.
0:44.5	Every week I have the opportunity to read a particular question and seek to answer it.
0:49.9	And hopefully it goes beyond the person that's writing it, but anyone who is listening can benefit from it.
0:59.0	This question comes from Sherry.
1:02.0	Sherry is from Tennessee.
1:07.0	She says this, recently, I started listening to your podcast.
1:12.2	I am 51 and I prefer women over men.
1:17.2	A few years ago, I finally came out of the dark, cold closet to my friends and family.
1:22.5	My mother said homosexuality is wrong and that God does not condone my actions.
1:28.3	I don't see myself as an evil person, nor do I see my homosexuality, which is something
1:34.3	I cannot control as a reason for eternal damnation.
1:39.3	However, I still feel conflicted over the idea of how God or a higher power can love me when supposedly my lifestyle goes against him.
1:52.2	What insights can you offer me?
1:54.7	Sherry, thank you for your bold confidence and courage and asking this particular question.
2:03.6	There's a couple of things we need to dissect here. First of all, when you talk about God, a conflict, how can a higher power love
2:12.6	you when your lifestyle goes against him? First of all, there is no God like that. There is no Him God.
2:21.0	God is the first beyond gender being. In other words, God is life, God is love, God is beauty,
2:29.3	God is joy, God is life itself. God is pure love. God is not a man.
2:35.6	God is not a woman.
2:38.2	God is pure spirit of love and beauty and intelligence.
2:43.9	So the question that is asked,
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