tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339835.post3919253802755803833..comments2023-09-29T02:56:47.049-07:00Comments on Straight Into Gay America Blog: Early Factors and Healing Homosexuality - ClausenLars Clausenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13428189687530690119noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339835.post-4451029861272498382006-10-20T07:38:00.000-07:002006-10-20T07:38:00.000-07:00P.S. Lars: The blog comment box thingy just ate my...P.S. Lars: The blog comment box thingy just ate my comment! How annoying! I will have to recompose it, with little time. My apologies to “Concerned Mother” for my too brief response below.<br /><br />Dear Concerned Mother,<br /><br />Thank you for your story. I wish I could say something that would help your son or that would make things easier for you. <br /><br />For what it’s worth, I am Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339835.post-81413971347682483472006-10-19T18:24:00.000-07:002006-10-19T18:24:00.000-07:00My response is anecdotal, rather than scientific. ...My response is anecdotal, rather than scientific. My husband, a retired Seventh-day Adventist minister, and I learned 17 years ago that the youngest of our three sons is gay. Coming from a background of ignorance and prejudice, we were stunned and alarmed, but decided to show him unconditional love. And I began trying to learn more about homosexuality – to this day I read everything I can find Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339835.post-86516978549933682422006-10-18T11:30:00.000-07:002006-10-18T11:30:00.000-07:00The "gay liufestyle" I am most familiar wqith is m...The "gay liufestyle" I am most familiar wqith is my son's., which is hardly as described by the Religious Right literature. He and his partner have jsut bought theie own home. they both go to work int he morning on the light rail transport. They grocery-shop together, (something my wife and I do not do), they boougth a car and make short mini-vacation trips, they both like classical music and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339835.post-16779827123163963542006-10-18T07:50:00.000-07:002006-10-18T07:50:00.000-07:00Dear Bloggers,
Alcoholism is a favorite analogy o...Dear Bloggers,<br /><br />Alcoholism is a favorite analogy of those who wish to argue that homosexuality is bad. (See Satinover's article, which Lars references in today's post of Oct. 18.) The point being made by Satinover and others is that just because someone may be genetically predisposed toward a certain mental state or behavior (i.e. homosexual orientation and homosexual sexual behavior), Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com