{"id":789,"date":"2008-10-27T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T21:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2008-10-27T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T21:10:05","slug":"these-days-we-need-counselling-on-absolutely-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/these-days-we-need-counselling-on-absolutely-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"These days we need counselling on absolutely everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christian relationship counsellor sacked after refusing to give sex advice to gay couples<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said his problems began last year after he started to train as a psychosexual therapist, treating people’s intimate sexual problems.<\/p>\n

He said: “In counselling, you are drawing the couple out, going on a journey with them, enabling them to think in more than black and white. You are not telling anyone what to do or endorsing what they do.<\/p>\n

“But in sex therapy you are diagnosing their problems and setting them a treatment plan, not unlike a doctor.”<\/p>\n

He said that while he believed in ‘each to their own’, he felt uncomfortable doing anything that would directly encourage gay sex, and raised the matter with his supervisor.<\/p>\n

Fellow counsellors complained about Mr McFarlane’s views, alleging he was homophobic, and he was suspended last December by his manager.<\/p>\n

After three weeks, he was reinstated and had to promise to abide by Relate’s equal opportunities policy, with the proviso, he claims, that he could raise issues in the future.<\/p>\n

Following further complaints, however, he was told that he would face a disciplinary hearing because managers at Relate Avon no longer believed he intended to uphold the policy. He was dismissed and his appeal was rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Picture this: a homosexual couple are having sexual difficulties. Nothing odd about that really, since their plumbing is all wrong for sex. So what do they do? They search high and low for a Christian sex counsellor for advice; eventually they find Gary McFarlane. But he is not only a Christian who disagrees with gay sex in the first place, he is also a heterosexual \u2013 what we used to call normal \u2013 and has difficulty relating to what goes where in homosexual copulation. The homosexual couple is not to be deterred: they insist that only Mr. McFarlane can\u00a0 advise them on the sexual conundrum of maintaining intimacy when the parts don’t fit.<\/p>\n

Which brings home the point that the person at Relate who fired Gary McFarlane is an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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