I read the site. I actually had it linked off of my site. I have rectified that.
This person assumes that his situation would be the only one that was possible. That his path, his temptation, his interpretations, or his personal test of faith was the only one which god or man could conceive of. What arrogance.
When you follow the right path you are at peace with yourself in mind and soul. When you follow the wrong you know it. Most people who dress as another gender has felt guilt about doing so at one time or another. However I strongly feel that this is due to societal conditioning not gods. We all have attempted to hide our cross-gender proclivities. Most of us have attempted to purge it to suppress it. To be the man we believe that we are expected to be. However it bursts out again no matter how far down we bury it.
The amazing thing is when I came out of the closet. When I quit hiding myself. When I accepted the path that I was intended to follow. The guilt, pain, and sorrow went away.
This person states the following reasons for believing that crossdressing is a sin.
Quote from: 1. It is deception - Yes, most of us to some degree modify our appearance to cover imperfections and to look our best (although sometimes the modifications look worse than the imperfection!). However, to equate this with being completely transformed to look like the opposite sex is a huge leap of reasoning.
It can be done for deception but only if you are doing it with the intention of deceiving. Another reason I firmly believe in informed consent before any intimacy. If you are crossdressing to be able to go into a womans locker room and ogle the women. It is deception. If you are a transsexual and do not see woman as being any different than yourself then it is not deception. Only you and God can know if your reasons are for deception. I know I feel I am committing deception every time I go into a men's room.
Quote from: 2. It violates God's ordained gender role for a person - God doesn't make mistakes, but Satan can take small hurts and flaws in our upbringing to cause gender confusion. This gender confusion can cause many kinds of relationship problems.
God, did not ordain gender roles society did. Gender roles other than childbirth are artificial and created by man.
"God doesn't make mistakes" oh so many stones I can throw there
Even if I grant that god can't make mistakes we still have our bodies, mankind, genetics, chemicals, nature, and nurture.
Why do you assume that this isn't a part of gods plan for your life for your soul's spiritual growth. I see no conflict
with my belief in God or Jesus based on his teachings while he was alive.
Satan is a scapegoat for religion. Without him religions would be held responsible by their followers when bad things happen. So they created satan to give them an easy out. So he's a way of avoiding personal, social, and societal responsibility when bad things happen. Oh ya! The devil made him/me do it!
Quote from: 3. A cross-dressing father is a confusing model for children.
If the problem is kept hidden in the dark closet and not dealt with in light yes it can be confusing.
My own niece and nephew show this is a fallacy. They accept me for what I am because to them I have always been that way.
It's perfectly natural to them. They have none of the ingrained prejudices that society would have otherwise given
them. They go to church, my sister raises them in a Christian home. She lets me take them to the movies and out from time
to time. We have a perfectly normal and natural relationship between us.
Quote from: 4. Cross-dressing is normally a very self-centered activity.
So illogical, and being a self-centered activity makes it a sin? *laugh*
Quote from: 5. It is not healthy for most marriage relationships. True, there are some exceptions to this, but most women I have
spoken with on the subject indicate a) they want a masculine male as a husband and b) they don't care to be in a virtual
lesbian relationship with the other woman as their husband.
See #3 above
Based once again on prejudices ingrained by society. They are taught by society from birth this is what makes a woman,
this is what makes a man. This is what you should do. I don't say this is inherently bad. I do however state again that it
makes it something of man not something of god and thus isn't a sin.
Quote from: The real test of whether or not something is a sin is your comfort level in doing it in front of people you go to church
with. For example, would you feel at ease dressing up and attending church "en femme?" If the answer to this question
is "no" or if you feel guilt over cross-dressing, then it fails this test.
Most people feel guilt over picking their noses. Eatting a good meal, Buying something nice for themselves. So this must
be a sin?
I do not go to churches. I feel modern religions are the anti-Christ described in the bible. Their goal is to separate you from god
and to act as a gate keeper between you and god. Such an unholy activity. That being said I am that I am, hrm where have I
heard that before
They take me or leave me as I am either way I won't let it get between myself and my god. You shouldn't
let them either. God loves you for what you are not for what others expect you to be. Keep this in mind when you run across
one of these oh it's a sin wackos.
