Thank you, Michele and Marcus Bachmann

Stephen Bennett

The media are at it once again with a real vendetta towing a hypocritical line.

Enter CNN and HLN. Wolf Blitzer. Anderson Cooper. Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew, just to name a few.

What has these networks and individuals – along with homosexual extremists and liberals – so fuming mad?

Michele and Marcus Bachmann.

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If you haven't noticed lately, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of the fastest rising superstars in today's political arena – a Republican frontrunner in the race for the 2012 office of the president of the United States.

Bachmann is Christian and conservative. She has a rapidly rising base of like-minded supporters all across the nation. However, Christian and conservative are two adjectives liberals and many within the mainstream media absolutely abhor.

This female fireball and evangelical powerhouse – who very well can be our next president – has been deemed a political threat and one who must be taken down in the media – now.

This eerily reminds me of another female political figure, from Alaska. You betcha.

This week, CNN released a video by a homosexual extremist group that went undercover with a hidden video camera at the Bachmanns' place of business – a humble Christian counseling center in Minnesota called Bachmann and Associates.

They said what was uncovered at the Bachmann clinic will absolutely shock us. It's unbelievable. It's unfathomable.

It was "uncovered" and "discovered" by the hidden camera of a gay activist posing as someone wanting help to change from gay to straight that the Bachmanns' Christian counseling center actually had the "audacity of hope" to believe that their Christian counselors could in fact, through prayer, the Bible and clinical means, help men and women who struggled with unwanted same-sex attraction to possibly change their sexual preference.

Seriously, can you imagine anyone believing such a thing? A gay person actually "changing" and "going straight"?

Articles and stories continue to flood the media with such grandiose titles as "What's going on at the Bachmann Clinic?", "Bachmann to cure gays?" and "Michele Bachmann helps homosexuals to pray away the gay."

I needed to find out the truth for myself.

Gay to straight? Who do Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus really think they are?

As I sat at my desk scratching my head, deeply pondering this incredible breaking news by CNN, I remembered a little story from 20 years ago.

Two gay men were in a loving, committed relationship for several years. Both of their families and all of their friends accepted them completely for who they were.

These gay men cooked together. They washed their clothes and washed their cars together. They both had great jobs. And believe it or not, every now and then, they even went to church together.

Then one day, a conservative, Bible-believing Christian who knew one of the gay men showed up at his front door with a Bible in her hand and rang the doorbell.

The gay man answered his door and the woman asked if she and her friend could come inside for a few minutes and talk about the Bible, Jesus Christ – and the man's homosexuality.

Shocked by the nerve that these two Christians had, the gay man decided to let them come in. He wanted to hear the nonsense these two homophobic, hateful bigots had to spew.

Over the next hour, the gay man heard how God loved him, how, based on Scripture, he wasn't "born" gay, and how he could leave his homosexual lifestyle through God's Son. He heard how Jesus Christ died for him, to set him free from sin and give him new life.

The two Christians were so bold with their words, they actually said, "Through Jesus, you no longer have to be gay! You can be heterosexual and happy – completely fulfilled – the way God created you to be!"

The Christians then asked the gay man if he wanted to pray and receive Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Confused, upset and by this time very angry, the gay man declined and asked the Christians to leave his home at once.

The Christians obliged. However, before departing, they left the gay man with a Bible and asked him to please read it – and consider and pray about everything that was said.

"Seek God with all of your heart – and you will find Him," were their final words.

Today, over 20 years later, that man is no longer gay. He is happily married to his wife of over 18 years. He is also the father of two precious children.

That man left his gay partner a year and a half after the two Christians visited him. He did read the Bible and prayed about everything they said.

He completely walked away from the homosexual lifestyle that once enslaved him for over 11 years, with over 100 male partners.

Until this day, by God's grace, that man never struggled again with homosexuality.

There is much more to the story. If you are interested, click below to find out more.

How do I know that story so well?

Because that gay man was me.

I want to thank you, Michele and Marcus Bachmann, for your unwavering Christian faith and stand. Thank you for offering true hope and help to those men and women struggling with unwanted homosexuality. You are not trying to force people to change who don't want it – only offering it to those who are truly seeking it.

Because of people like you, I am a completely changed man – in more ways than one.

Because of people like you, I have a loving wife and two beautiful children – a family – something I always dreamed of, but believed was completely impossible.

Michele and Marcus Bachmann, because people just like you cared enough to share the Gospel and God's uncompromising, yet loving truth about homosexuality with me, my life and eternal destiny have completely changed.

I thank you. My wife thanks you. Our children thank you.

Great is your reward.

CNN, HLN, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew – along with other naysayers: I pray your eyes, minds and hearts will one day be opened to the truth.

There are many former homosexual men and women in this world. We do exist. We know the "Truth" and the "Truth" has set us free.

Life on the other side of the rainbow is more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. 

Stephen Bennett and his wife, Irene, are the founders and executive directors of SBM Worldwide in Huntington, Conn., a pro-family Christian evangelistic organization dedicated to reaching homosexual men and women worldwide with the gospel of Jesus Christ. SBM also provides biblical support for parents, spouses, family members and friends with homosexual loved ones. To make a gift to the ongoing evangelistic and educational work of SBM, to find out more about the ministry, or to read Stephen Bennett's testimony, please visit www.SBMinistries.org.