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Old 04-17-2007, 06:51 PM   #31
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I posted this in another thread, but I don't think anyone saw it:

Here is an article I came across a few years ago in Dialogue magazine. It is written by a person who was not gay, but then was sexually abused by another male and subsequently became homosexual. The article discusses the author's challenges as an LDS male

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/doc...OW=27394&REC=9

It is well worth the read (even though the page turning is a bit odd- you have to click on the page number on the left side of the webpage to progress).

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Old 04-17-2007, 07:25 PM   #32
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I posted this in another thread, but I don't think anyone saw it:

Here is an article I came across a few years ago in Dialogue magazine. It is written by a person who was not gay, but then was sexually abused by another male and subsequently became homosexual. The article discusses the author's challenges as an LDS male

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/doc...OW=27394&REC=9

It is well worth the read (even though the page turning is a bit odd- you have to click on the page number on the left side of the webpage to progress).
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Old 04-17-2007, 07:35 PM   #33
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Old 04-17-2007, 07:55 PM   #34
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Story ended abruptly, didn't it?
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Story ended abruptly, didn't it?
Did you click the page turns on the left frame? It is about 8 pages or so.
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yes but the transition from the psychiatrist telling to have gay sex to him bearing testimony was weird.
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Not to downplay someone's tragedy but I suggest this story may be a made up parable to illustrate a point, using what is in fact a rather far fetched scenario for the purpose of illustration, and provoking thought--i.e., what if someone were turned into a gay because he was molested as a child? Pretty hard to condemn such a hypothetical person, but it's then a short step to saying, well, if gays are born not made, then, what's the difference? It seems kind of cloying to me, but years back I can see how someone might have thought this would be a powerful object lesson.

I don't think the Sunstone people would be above passing a "parable" off as true since the practicing members there essentially beleive that that is what the Book of Mormon is. I can't fully explain why but the story doesn't ring true to me, partly because I think homosexuals are born not made, perhaps. The story also seems kind of dated.
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...partly because I think homosexuals are born not made, perhaps. The story also seems kind of dated.
You seriously don't think that at least SOME gays are homosexual due to sociological influences in their life?
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David Bowie said about his earlier days, "I think I was a closet heterosexual."
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You seriously don't think that at least SOME gays are homosexual due to sociological influences in their life?
Well, born not made is a figure of speech. Environmental factors may play a part. I don't know the mix, but the point is I believe sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic, and I don't believe someone can go from being wired to be perfectly heterosexual to homosexual because they were molested as a child. That's what I blelieve.

The story doesn't really serve homosexuals' interests, and, as I say, it seems dated. I'm pretty sure it's fiction.
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