I am Not Gay . . . I am David by David Prosen Are people born "gay" or do they choose to be gay? The answer to both qutns is no—although many passnate bat generated by this topic, we are quick to dismiss objectivy. In realy, the qutns provi a smoke screen to a…
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- OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
I am Not Gay... Are people born “gay” or do they choose to be gay?
The problem I speak of is the ia that homosexualy is an inty. I ed to believe I was a “gay” person.
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
The rogative homosexual label was given to me by my peers, and I yield to their accatns bee I tly did have a sexualized same-sex attractn. Eventually, I embraced this label and lled myself “gay.
The Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah explaed this realy a statement that observed, “As every moral disorr, homosexual activy prevents one’s own fulfillment and happs by actg ntrary to the creative wisdom of God. The Church, rejectg erroneo opns regardg homosexualy, do not lim personal eedom and digny realistilly and thentilly unrstood. He has brought me through the valley of shame and out of the darkns of my past and shed His light of tth upon the many li I believed about myself—pecially the one that claimed that I was a “gay” person.
By fg myself as a “gay” male, I had taken on a false inty. Any label such as “lbian, ” “bisexual, ” or even “homosexual” suat a type of person equivalent to male or female. In his book, Growth to Manhood, Alan Medger shows that homosexual tennci and behavrs have been around for thoands of years, but the ia of a homosexual inty only began to evolve about 150 years ago wh the emergence of the term “homosexual.