Taking A Stand

The year was 1991. A guy you don't know and will probably never meet wrote a book you will probably never read, but I would.

Many of you have only recently caught a glimpse of the overreaching censorship capabilities that Big companies exact on the information we see and receive. Today I took a huge step in the right direction for me. I fired Twitter, deactivating both accounts. I fired Amazon for what they are did to shutter Parler and also for what they did to a little set of books and authors a few years back. You probably never heard that story.

This is where that book I mentioned comes into play. Author, Counselor, Pastor and Speaker Joe Dallas has written many books on the subject of walking away from homosexuality. In 2001, I read Joe's book "Desires in Conflict". He wrote the book in 1991 and 10 years later it was still sending out a rescue signal that I received. The book gave me fresh insight on my struggles with Same Sex Attraction. It was like Joe had broken into my house and read my journals. I was a little boy that had grown up believing I was gay. Joe's book was the first "church" book I found that spoke to me about my life experience and my struggles SSA.

After reading Joe's book I taught it to other men on the same journey. Joe Dallas brought light to my life through the truth that Jesus brought to his. Amazon brought cheap paper towels to my door. A few years back, Amazon exercised a brand of censorship that I deemed despicable. They banned Desires in Conflict and other Christian books, because they deemed them harmful to the rhetoric of the gay community that says if you have same sex attraction, then you were born that way. I do not believe that anyone is born gay. I chose to believe that homosexuality formed in my life as a result of many environmental factors. I was born Artistic, Sensitive and Creative. I was not born gay. Rather than allowing two schools of thought on the matter, Amazon decided to side with LGBT activists to ban all books with the theme of Freedom from Homosexuality.

I posted about it way back when. No one cared. It didn't affect a great number of people. It wasn't personal to anyone but men and women like me, who have left their homosexual lives behind. It was the first shockwave signaling that Amazon was no longer a convenient way to order books and toilet paper. It was now the moral and social police, preaching a gospel of its own. No longer a business serving customers from all walks of life and beliefs. Amazon was using its enormous power in the marketplace to stifle the voice of freedom and the principles of free speech.

I have never stood on the corner at a gay pride march with signs filled with hatred and a mouth full of cursing. I have shared the story of my life the same way gay men and women share their stories. I have cried with my gay friends who have suffered bad breakups and bullying. I have given of everything God has given me to help people with needs in the LGBT community. I have gotten out of bed to come to the aid of gay friends who could only remember my number, because it was easy. I don't just share the truth that Jesus led me out of homosexuality, I love the gay community well. I share the truth of the Bible with them as people, rather than to use it as a weapon against them.

So today I took a stand. A lot of these companies don't care about me as an Ex-gay man and especially as a Christian. Even Howard Schultz has told people of faith not to come to Starbucks. Big Tech companies think they can control and manipulate the little guy. Well maybe so. But not this little guy.

Life might be a little tougher without 2 day delivery and free movies. But as we have all come to see, online ordering services are a dime a dozen and Amazon no longer holds the sway they once did. I have found two companies that still believe in free speech as far as books are concerned. They both offer the two books that steered my life on a collision course with God.

BarnesandNoble.com and Christianbook.com.

Thank you for being businesses that serve people rather than acting as the moral police force pushing the opinion and agenda of a select ew on the whole of your customer base.

To Alan Medinger, hanging out with Jesus in heaven, I salute you sir for your book "Growth Into Manhood". To Joe Dallas, I will forever owe you a debt of gratitude. Your books "Desires in Conflict", "When Homosexuality Hits Home" and a host of others have brought hope to parents the world wide.

I am not telling you what to do with your dollars. I am simply saying, that I have to stand up for what I believe in, and make sacrifices in order to share the truth in a world where lies are the language of our modern day media.