Same-sex physical attraction and counseling on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

We have several questions that have come in related to the topic of same-sex attraction.

One of the questions that Christians are asking is,

should I feel nervous about counseling someone of the same gender who has same-sex

attraction? Let me say this at the very beginning. We have to admit that every single thing

about the question you just asked is controversial. There is a very narrow slice of the population that is not going to be offended by a couple

different elements in that question.

First of all, the question assumes that same-sex attraction is a problem that requires

counseling.

It is a minority position to argue that it's a problem that it requires counseling. Secondly, it's very, very controversial that counseling

would even help such a thing. This is a very debated issue. And the popular view, certainly on the part of LGBT persons,

is that counseling doesn't help because it's an innate characteristic.

There's all sorts of evidence that that's not true, but that doesn't change that the popular

opinion is that it is true.

And then you've got the issue of the question could sound kind of prudish. Well,

what's the problem with having these kinds of relationships or something like that? And so the

question, as it's asked, is one of the most controversial things that we could talk about

on the podcast. And yet, we do believe as biblical Christians,

agreeing with 2,000 years of church history, agreeing with faithful exegesis of the text of

scripture today, that the Bible does teach homosexuality to be a sin, and that homosexuality is

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