It is considered to be OK to change your sex but not to change your sexual orientation

The representation was geared heavily towards those practising and celebrating the LGBT lifestyle, not those who have settled happy lives now outside of it. The interviewer constantly tried to trip up and implicate those connected to any Christian groups that offer support for people who seek an alternative lifestyle to the homosexual one.

Surely, it is not a sin to be able to make your own informed choices in life, or for the law to decide that a person cannot in any way ‘change,’ when the LGBT activists themselves promote total changes of gender, so why is a change in sexual orientation viewed as wrong?

You can’t equally justify or condemn both. What about the ‘bi-sexual’ position where it is claimed that some people are attracted to both sexes. Why must a gay man be precluded from opting for a member of the opposite sex, which its own tenets already proclaim with bi-sexuality?

How can I change my gender so freely, but not sexual attraction? I would have thought a lot more ‘conversion therapy’ would be applied when a person converts from being male to female and vice-versa, than considering the direction of one’s sexuality. How much research is there into the harm that gender conversion therapy could possibly cause?

The Christian position is clear on homosexuality. It is the morality of modern society that has changed, but God’s view on same-sex unions remains forbidden for all eternity.

When I looked up the BBC helpline to check details of organisations that anyone affected by watching the programme could look up, there were only LGBT switchboards and websites, but no details of how to contact any of the Christian organisations featured in the programme who stated clearly that they offer ‘support’ and not some primitive form of coercion such as were used by secular medical methods, not by Christian organisations, before the 1950s.

The doctors who administered electric shock treatment etc are a million miles from the reality of caring Christian conversation and help that is being so selflessly offered to those who wish to benefit from such. One of the fruits of the Spirit is love, against which the Bible says there is no law.

If the British, or Irish, governments try to ban these genuine acts of love, then they will be silencing and discriminating against the minority of minorities, former LGBT people.

This discrimination was evident in this BBC programme and others that have preceded it in the media. It is about time the silenced minority were able to be more fully heard.

Colin Nevin, Bangor

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