If being a homosexual is not a choice, then how can something like this happen?

Question

Read this article about how this man was liberated from that lifestyle with God's help.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56481

What is your opinion of this man and the things he asserts in this article?

I did not see the same question below when I posted this.

Answer 1

That is just more proof that it IS a choice

Medical research now says homosexuality is a choice brought on by one's enviroment such as who you surround yourself with, etc

Read some of the latest Medical Journals

and 1st corinthians 6:9

Answer 2

Total bunk. Many perfectly hetero-appearing Christian men settle down, get married, have kids, only to eventually "crack" after suppressing their feelings for years.

There was a study done at Stanford a while back that observed this behavior in, uh, graphic detail. College age men were asked several questions about their sexual orientation, including whether or not they'd had homosexual fantasies, etc. Then they were placed in a room with a gadget attached to their penises to determine the growth in circumference due to erection. Then the researchers played gay porn videos on a TV for an hour or so. Unexpectedly, the men who had given the most hetero, most homophobic answers on the survey showed far more arousal than those that had been more neutral. Also interesting was that in the post survey, the more homophobic men who had the greatest sexual arousal stated that they had not been at all aroused. But the meter doesn't lie.

The desire to "fit in" is extremely strong and can be enormously painful and difficult to overcome. Especially when you're devoutly religious and have the threat of hell looming over your head. It's not at all surprising or significant that someone would jump back into the fold, but it's unlikely that his sexual identity has magically changed to match his behavior.

Answer 3

It's not a choice. Secondly, you can't be "liberated" from something you're born with. Homosexuality is the only thing you can be yelled at or demonized for. You don't yell at someone saying,"Damn you Otto! You have Lupis! go liberate yourself with god's help!" no! Homosexuality isn't even hurting anyone. You're not going to die from it, or "infect" anyone else. Homosexuality is where different hormones and glands conflict. It's like a hermaphrodite of the mind. They're born with it, and can't be changed. Only not too long ago were the cause of disease was discovered.. Oh no! Pathogens! you didn't hear about homosexuality 100 years ago because people didn't know they were being afflicted. Now, it seems to be "spreading" but really, the only thing spreading is the knowledge about homosexuality, or the lack there of. Plus, homosexuality isn't a "lifestyle". You don't wake up in the morning to eat your "queer flakes" or drive to work in your "dyke-mobile". When has heterosexuality or celibacy or anything else afflicted your life to the point where you can't function properly? Homosexuals, are like anyone else. Sexuality is only one tiny aspect in a "lifestyle" or in LIFE for that matter! This guy isn't "liberated". In fact, he's being suppressed from whom he is.

Answer 4

Some Christians have gotten this delusion that all that exists in the world is the 0s and 6s of the Kinsey Scale....

Thus if a guy sleeps with a chick he magically goes from a 6 to a 0.

Here's a clue- the population is a double standard curve, with the means at two and four and a small dip at 3, for a functional mean of 3.

That predicts people changing so called orientation in magic 0 and 6 world where none of us live, bub.

Answer 5

I don't notice he says that the attraction is gone, only that he's no longer having gay sex. That's a choice, just as having str8 sex is.

And given that this man considers *his* sex was "lust-based," THAT choice requires no explanation at all! Just look at all the str8 and gay priests, nuns, and brothers who commit to celibacy and actually live it. (The ones who fall off the wagon don't prove that no one can do it, only that they didn't.) And many of them have had past love-based relationships, which must be much harder to give up.

However, in many other cases of "ex-gays," there's self-delusion. People who claim to no longer have homosexual urges are notoriously likely to give in to them later. If the real devils are anything like those in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" (or the "In Nomine" role-playing game, for that matter), they must be supporting all the "ex-gay" ministries to the hilt!

Answer 6

That proposition was introduced by a gay biologist in 1991. IT was refuted by scientists in Ottawa University in 1999, and reported on ABC news.

It's probably a family psychological condition like alcoholism, drug addiction or obesity. They should be protected by our laws, but the thinking involved carried to it's logical 'delusion' allows me to "kill" people if I'm genetically determined as well.

Well, I'll meet you at the German Beer Hall. Achtung!

Answer 7

I don't know the man, and I find Worldnetdaily to be a dubious source of information. Maybe he was not making enough as a columnist for a gay teen magazine. I doubt if it had a great distribution somehow. However religious magazines have much greater readerships and a saved gay columnist should make out pretty good.
I expect to see him doing the revival circuit soon. Guest witnessing can be quite lucrative.

Answer 8

I'll just copy the answer I gave to this question a minute ago.
My bet is that he'll be going back to being homosexual. Notice that this sudden change to "heterosexuality" occurred after he went through some sort of religious experience. Sounds like some fundamentalists got their talons into him. They do nothing but damage.
*IF*, he does somehow manage to stay heterosexual, then he can only speak for himself. He is what *he* is. It has nothing to do with what anyone else is.
My guess is that he is a homosexual man with some bisexual tendencies.

Answer 9

There's plenty of reports of homosexuals being "cured" by religion. Every one has reported miserable lives trying to live with women to whom they are not really sexually attracted to. These marriages almost always end in divorce and the people revert to being homosexuals.

I haven't read the article, but if this guy hasen't reverted to being a homosexual, I'm sure he will.

Edit: considering this is a biased website (everything on here smacks of ultra-conservativism), I wouldn't be prone to taking too much for it to begin with.

Answer 10

For some reason many people think that homosexuality is a simple phenomena and that all homosexuals are alike. Like any characteristic ones sexuality is, in all likelihood, due to a complex mixture of genetics and environmental factors. Over simplifying is a grave error.

Answer 11

My opinion would be that he is still a homosexual, he's just deluding himself and lying to himself. Possibly because being heterosexual is what he feels he needs to be, which frankly isn't true.