Through the years I experienced, ignorance, injustice and discrimination by my family and including at my Pentecostal Church. Probably they didn’t understand or they didn’t want to talk about sexuality, including sexual issues, gender, sexual orientation or sexuality as a multidimensional (Thorson-Smith, p. 232) spectrum. My life and human sexuality were replaced by worship and church, always with spiritual disciplines. Discovering my sexuality changed my whole life affecting my ethics and experience of God, and I have been reconstructed holistically. I cannot separate my life, relationship and my sexuality, because they are constantly intertwined with me as a human being. On my walk I had to reconcile one with the other and remove unfounded
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238) approach to life through feeling ashamed, but at the same time, 2) this was positive because it made me evaluate my sexual behavior and identity (Ott, p. 19) as a Christian as part of my ethics and sexual process. I grew up Pentecostal on my mother’s side, with a Baptist Education at school, understanding the Catholic Faith with my Mexican grandmother on my father’s side. I was unable to express my identity and sexual orientation, suppressing what I thought were shameful desires. But at the age of 23 years, I left the church and began to indulge my desire to have excessive sexual relations. In the meantime, I was also reading a lot of esoteric readings and non-Christian philosophies when I left the Church to find answers about my sexuality, but continued to believe in the charismatic and spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit. In a perfect time, I found my identity and myself in God in the idea that nothing is absolute, and (many years later) I’m serving at a United Methodist Church. Even now, I am still changing also still on board to make the reconstruction that awaits me until the day comes to transcend this …show more content…
24-25). After 3 relationships, including the last one 9 years ago, I returned to my home church, and I thought my only option was to also return to a suppressed sexuality in celibacy or, in the extreme, to open my mind to be involved in heterosexual relationship (but I didn’t really want this). In this exercise, through the readings and the timeline, I could see how much I have changed between challenges, problems and prospects that have shaped my theology and ethics in this moral discernment and moral decision (Farley, p. 135). I have to keep in mind working with my sexual health and being proactive in any event, and to be open for relationship, including sensations and emotions. As a holistic man and ethicist, in consideration of different roles and aspects of scripture, theology, tradition, philosophy, human experience and their variations (Farley, p. 137), I can take with me the wisdom and support of the community I come from and the experiences I have had to improve my
238) approach to life through feeling ashamed, but at the same time, 2) this was positive because it made me evaluate my sexual behavior and identity (Ott, p. 19) as a Christian as part of my ethics and sexual process. I grew up Pentecostal on my mother’s side, with a Baptist Education at school, understanding the Catholic Faith with my Mexican grandmother on my father’s side. I was unable to express my identity and sexual orientation, suppressing what I thought were shameful desires. But at the age of 23 years, I left the church and began to indulge my desire to have excessive sexual relations. In the meantime, I was also reading a lot of esoteric readings and non-Christian philosophies when I left the Church to find answers about my sexuality, but continued to believe in the charismatic and spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit. In a perfect time, I found my identity and myself in God in the idea that nothing is absolute, and (many years later) I’m serving at a United Methodist Church. Even now, I am still changing also still on board to make the reconstruction that awaits me until the day comes to transcend this …show more content…
24-25). After 3 relationships, including the last one 9 years ago, I returned to my home church, and I thought my only option was to also return to a suppressed sexuality in celibacy or, in the extreme, to open my mind to be involved in heterosexual relationship (but I didn’t really want this). In this exercise, through the readings and the timeline, I could see how much I have changed between challenges, problems and prospects that have shaped my theology and ethics in this moral discernment and moral decision (Farley, p. 135). I have to keep in mind working with my sexual health and being proactive in any event, and to be open for relationship, including sensations and emotions. As a holistic man and ethicist, in consideration of different roles and aspects of scripture, theology, tradition, philosophy, human experience and their variations (Farley, p. 137), I can take with me the wisdom and support of the community I come from and the experiences I have had to improve my