Former Homosexual -- Now Saved -- Simultaneously Battles AIDS and Sin
by Jim Brown
March 4, 2005
(AgapePress) - A former homosexual now living with AIDS is spending his remaining days on this earth fighting to protect children and families from the onslaught of pornography and homosexuality in California.
There was a time James Hartline was heavily involved in homosexuality and drug abuse. Now he is fighting illegal pornographic stores, public nudity, and taxpayer-funded "gay bathhouses" in San Diego. That transformation came about after he accepted Jesus Christ has his personal Savior.
Although he has been living with AIDS for eight years, Hartline is not letting the disease slow him down.
"I spend 14 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week -- except for the time that I'm in church -- fighting to protect children and to elevate families in San Diego and in California to their rightful place as positive role models for all citizens," the activist says.
And his past allows him unique perspectives to share. "As a former homosexual, I'm very much involved in going around and educating churches and civic groups on the destruction within the homosexual community and how that's affecting our families and our children," he says.
Hartline says God has given him the energy and strength to keep going. "I think that's why my testimony is so powerful," he says, "because it really shows what can happen when you go down that road of destruction: that the consequences of our sin is possible death.
"So that's one of the reasons why I'm so passionate about protecting others from going down that road."
The former homosexual says he simply feels an obligation to warn Americans about the negative consequences of a sinful lifestyle. "I'm not in this just to say don't do something, but also publicly testifying [about] what can happen if you go down that road," he says.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
