Matt Moore, a self-loathing and sort of “ex-gay” blogger was caught using Grindr, a gay male hookup phone app, earlier in the week. Upon being 
exposed, he groveled to his authoritarian version of Jesus for forgiveness.
Apparently, prayer was not enough to stop the horny little devil from having a real life, rather than living in an Orwellian fundamentalist train-wreck that promises nothing but misery and pain. Overwhelmed with the temptation to be who he really is, Moore took extraordinary measures to continue his faith facade, selling his computer and locking his phone:
“I have sold my computer and have had someone put a lock on my phone where I cannot download apps or access the Internet through a non-filtered browser,” Moore told the Christian Post in a recent interview. “Ultimately, this isn’t the solution. My heart being captured by the grace of God and brought into humble obedience is the solution. But not taking precautions is dumb, so these are the precautions I have taken.
When asked how he would respond to ‘a Christian suffering from same-sex attraction.’ Moore replied that Jesus is better than sin.
The world will tell you to embrace your homosexual desires because it’ll make you happy in this life. Jesus tells you to deny yourself and follow Him and promises to give you eternal life if you do.”
On the plus side, at least Moore isn’t delusional enough to buy into the “ex-gay” myth:
I want to clarify that I don’t promote sexual conversion therapy or promote that people to try and reorient their sexual preferences. So much of what’s being printed are old ideologies of the “ex gay movement”, and they’re falsely being placed on me. I don’t support those ideologies and I think they are harmful.
I really don’t think I’ll ever be attracted to women. So I don’t encourage others to make that a goal, either. I simply encourage people to seek The Lord and seek the truth.
How sad to see an attractive, articulate young man like Moore throw away his life trying to please and appease people who loathe him for who he truly is. He has latched onto a child-like form of religion that essentially believes a “loving” God created millions of people across the globe to live desperately depressing lives as lonely and sexually frustrated men and women in order to get into heaven.
Aside from the obvious sadism in the guise of spirituality, why would any free thinking, intelligent individual pray to such a puny and pathetic deity? The fact that Moore had to get rid of his computer and surrender his freedom, shows that he is headed towards a dead end in his life. He will eventually come out — the question is whether it will be sooner than later. My advice is that he runs as fast as he can away from the religious cult that is now ruining his life. And he should do it quickly to buy back his computer from the Pawn Shop, before someone else gets it.
If he were really “seeking the truth” he would accept himself for who he is. I can’t believe people live their lives based on a book written many years ago which may or may not be fiction. It’s astounding.
This poor guy thinks he is giving up control of his life to God when in fact he is surrendering to the will of men who claim to speak for God.
It’s almost more sad that he doesn’t believe in reparative therapy. He knows full well that he will live his entire life without the love of a spouse. At least “ex-gays” have hope (as false as it may be).
Great point Michael!
There are differing theological views on how God loves and accepts those who God has given a same-sex desire that are more healthy and responsible than the typical fundamentalist stand. It’s time for all Christians to free themselves from the negative, unhealthy viewpoints taugh by fundamentalist churches and claim a God who gives us wholeness and happiness in loving relationships with partners and spouses regardless of their gender. I pray for this man to escape the traps of fundmentalism and claim the freedom of a new theological stand by such churches as Metropolitan Community Churches, United Church of Christ, and the many, many welcoming, affirming, inlcusive congregations who welcome same sex couples and individuals into their fellowship and community.
How sad that he fights it.
So sad to read this. I think, if he had more faith, he’d know God would want him to have a family, or a relationship… one based on love. Being alone, without love, isn’t part of a loving plan of God. He’s not tempted by Satan, I’d say he’s tempted by not accepting the way God made him.
Rev Ray Nealm
If we really do that, I mean have preachers start preaching that God is a loving God only, and not a dicey creature of fear love and conflict like his creators, then aren’t you talking about a complete denunciation and fall of Judeo-Christianity as we know it? Where would Judeo-C be w/o a good evil God to burn your a*s forever if you get out of line, you know, like our fathers did to us when we were kids. ; ) All kidding aside, isn’t God all peace and not a lick of negativity? Isn’t that where things are really headed, the real teachings of Jesus Christ?
Telling other people that they are broken and have to be celibate or enter a fake marriage isn’t any better. He is still an a*****e.
No, Matt is not throwing away his life, he’s claiming his salvation by throwing away homosexual sin.
Luke 9:23-24 (KJV)
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn [with passion].” (1 Corinthians 7:8-9)
Most people today can go without sex longer than they can stand not having a computer. I predict he will have have another one before he unlocks his phone; which won’t be long either.
And of course there is still old school cruising in parks and toilets
Sold his computer? Really? So what is he using to update his FB page. He has been updating it regularly this evening. He also banned me from posting.
I’m not a regular here, but I really don’t understand the reason for the salacious, sneering tone used in this article. It’s a sad story and I would think that some empathy and compassion for this man would be more helpful.
As a Christian gay man, my heart goes out to him as he tries to comply with the Big Lie. He can dig a hole in the ground, climb in and seal himself so that he never sees another person, but he will still be gay and Jesus will love him no more or less than He loves Him now as a gay child of God. I will pray that “ex-gay” activist Moore finds the strength to give back the pay checks and leave homophobia. All the money in the is not worth the false price he is paying.
Pathetic. This kind of crap is the reason I kicked Christianity out of my life 35 years ago and why everyone should right now. It is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on the human race.
I have nothing, really, against people’s choice to consume porn or browse hook-up sights but if this is Matt Moore’s only experience of gay-ness, of course he views it in the negative. It’ doesn’t even seem worth trying to have a conversation with someone like this.
I must admit that I think it’s laudable for him to recognize the outdate model of “ex-gay therapy” and applaud him for admitting he may never be attracted to women.
At the risk of stating the obvious: between grindr on the one hand and deep, unrelenting love for the big JC on the other I would like to suggest to this gentleman that there are thousands of choices in between including -perhish the thought- a solid same sex family with a healthy sex life and some form of spiritual practice.
Heartbreaking….
If God created us and he gave us all the faculties of being human and, within that, gave us sexuality, then why did he give some of us the ability to feel love, lust, and attraction for people of the same sex and to others (the majority of others) the sexual attraction for opposite sex people? Then, supposedly, give that majority the knowledge that “we” are wrong and need to be forgiven for what God, himself, gave us and fight our own selves to be like the ones that God made the “right” way? Seems to me the “majority” pronounced us wrong and decided what it is we must do to be in God’s favor again (like they are).
AND, of course, that requires that we deny all the human pleasure, comfort, love that those desires lead us to seek and live a lie for the rest of our lives so that God will like “us” the way He likes the rest of his creation. Worse, those gay people who submit to this religiously based horror, try their mightiest to BE the way God supposedly should have made them in the first place. By any logic, it isn’t we who screwed ourselves up, it was God! And, according to those many, many straight people who, by their own account, know God’s will, a screw-up by God is impossible so being gay must be our own fault. Therefore, correcting the problem is up to us. It is all so simple for the simple-minded.
My belief is that IF God made us all (and that includes me), gave us all those things that make us human (including our sexuality), and knowing full well I had no choice in the matter, then let Him fix me if he wants. After all, HE has that power! Let Him use it. It will be nothing for Him to do it right the second time. Correct his mistake, if that’s what it is and that’s what He wants. Guaranteed that won’t happen because no mistake was made in the first place. You can submit to the condemnation and assorted religious baloney, but if God wanted you to be straight like most of the rest of the human race, He would have given that to you like he gave it to all the others. Realize it and stop wasting your life trying to be what God didn’t make you.
It wasn’t his computer that he got rid of that was the problem; he should have gotten rid of his church instead. Best wishes to his realizing this before he misses to much of life.
Religion has to be the cleverest invention in human history for putting shackles on people to hold them in bondage. And it’s so cost-effective, too. By putting the shackles on people’s brains, rather than their ankles, you even get them to willingly pay for the whole bondage system.
While I can understand how superstitious beliefs developed as a way for desperate ancient people to understand their world, clearly, the cleverest among them quickly learned how to convince the masses that they had special insights that enabled them to amass status, power, and often wealth. And thus, organized religion was born.
Great point Richard! People today as individuals don’t understand many things, thus they allow themseves to still be misled by religion. Thus Matt got rid of a machine that he and others have only a small amount of knowledge about it’s inner workings; putting blame on the machine was the easiest cop-out rather than facing the real problem: his religion.
Richard, It isn’t so much that religion itself puts the shackles on, but that they front for God in doing so. After all, they tell you what God said/says, wants from us, needs from us, demands from us, loves about us, and yes – hates about us (I find that sentence – God hates.- to be at odds with itself.)
Christianity has, at its core, many good things and instructs and guides in ways to make ourselves better persons, especially toward our neighbors. But, and here’s your point, the “leaders” long ago figured how to make a living out of it and get a following that they could, more or less, command in the name of God. It became a great money maker.
People in any society have always required leadership, guidance, laws, direction, etc. Those things are necessary, considering the base nature of man. Religion can and sometimes does serve those needs well. However, it too is subject to man’s base nature and many times is used to advance it’s own selfish agenda.
I’ve followed his blog for a while. He’s a nice guy, but clearly confused. His “gay life” consisted of too much booze and anonymous sex … so he’s confused his homosexuality with dysfunction. He’s the type to go from one extreme to the other until he finds himself. I hope he figures it out!
Kari writes:
“I’m not a regular here, but I really don’t understand the reason for the salacious, sneering tone used in this article. It’s a sad story and I would think that some empathy and compassion for this man would be more helpful.”
That’s right Kari — you really don’t understand. What you have done is saved your empathy for the abuser, while conveniently ignoring the abused, which are likely to be LGBT youth who this man is misleading.
I’m sorry, any adult, and he is an adult, who are harming gay kids by elevating themselves in the media, deserve scorn, not sympathy. When this fraud stops writing damaging lies in high-profile Christian publications, you will be amazed how much empathy I have. But, as long as he is using the media to promote a fraudulent tale at the expense of innocent people he can go f**k himself.
I think if he wasn’t a cute, young white guy there wouldn’t be so many people worried about his “feelings” in this matter. I have sympathy for people who get caught in these kind of things. The self-loathing that it would take to enter into ex-gay therapies is sad, but that doesn’t mean we can’t criticize them and in the highest terms. Their actions are harming others and when they are hypocrites we are not wrong or mean to point it out.
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Im sure eventually he will dig up an “ex-lesbian” they will have babies and that way he will convince himself for a short period of time, before he comes to the realization, that he, is, and will always be gay, he will then go on to ruin more lives in his selfish need to prove his heterosexuality.