238) approach to life through feeling ashamed, but at the same time, 2) this was positive because it made me evaluate my sexual behavior and identity (Ott, p. 19) as a Christian as part of my ethics and sexual process. I grew up Pentecostal on my mother’s side, with a Baptist Education at school, understanding the Catholic Faith with my Mexican grandmother on my father’s side. I was unable to express my identity and sexual orientation, suppressing what I thought were shameful desires. But at the age of 23 years, I left the church and began to indulge my desire to have excessive sexual relations. In the meantime, I was also reading a lot of esoteric readings and non-Christian philosophies when I left the Church to find answers about my sexuality, but continued to believe in the charismatic and spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit. In a perfect time, I found my identity and myself in God in the idea that nothing is absolute, and (many years later) I’m serving at a United Methodist Church. Even now, I am still changing also still on board to make the reconstruction that awaits me until the day comes to transcend this …show more content…
24-25). After 3 relationships, including the last one 9 years ago, I returned to my home church, and I thought my only option was to also return to a suppressed sexuality in celibacy or, in the extreme, to open my mind to be involved in heterosexual relationship (but I didn’t really want this). In this exercise, through the readings and the timeline, I could see how much I have changed between challenges, problems and prospects that have shaped my theology and ethics in this moral discernment and moral decision (Farley, p. 135). I have to keep in mind working with my sexual health and being proactive in any event, and to be open for relationship, including sensations and emotions. As a holistic man and ethicist, in consideration of different roles and aspects of scripture, theology, tradition, philosophy, human experience and their variations (Farley, p. 137), I can take with me the wisdom and support of the community I come from and the experiences I have had to improve my