This week we watched a documentary on a study of about five men, their ages ranging from 18-40's. Each of these men had the desire to be cured of this attraction if it were at all possible, and were told it was by seeing these specialists. Throughout the study the men talked about their childhood. Almost all of the aspects that research shows causes same sex attraction was found in their childhood. These are a few of them. Not being excepted by other males socially. Not having a good relationship with the father. Being molested. Lack of affection.
Through there counseling with the specialist they we're able to work through their same sex attraction and were able to start feeling attracted to other females. At the end of this article it talks about how the gay community wanted to make these types of therapies illegal, claiming that it brought on more depression because it was labeled as a disfunction rather that who they were. I thought it was interesting however when one of the men in the study said that he had just been in a relationship with a girl that had ended and though he felt sad about the brake up and missed her, the feelings of sadness never came close to the depression he felt when he was having same sex attraction and not knowing their was help.
What I found most intriguing was the hope I felt as I learned about this study. Sometimes these things going on in the world feel completely out of our control or that we have no influence over them. Especially when the gay communities say things like they we're born this way or this is just who they are. As I learned that kids want so badly to be excepted by their peers, and when their not they feel a lack of affection, and eventually go looking for it in the wrong ways.
This made me determined to teach my kids the importance of loving everyone, and including everyone. Because if everyone can just feel loved and cared about then so many of our problems would be gone. Charity Never Faileth!~Moroni 7:47
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