I knew several of these guys who were the first to admit it was a disorder, but by the time they recognized it, they were in their 40s and had a relatively stable life they were reluctant to disrupt or lose a job over.
One of the saddest things about the promotion of gay life after Stonewall (1969) is that the loudest mouths also prevented and cancelled any research aimed at finding the causes and possible remedies for gay behavior. Activists as early as the ’70s had the wording of the medical community's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, changed in order to stop calling homosexuality a psychological or mental disorder. So the teens and young adults who got into it back then soon found, like the mafia, they couldn't get out—it was becoming a political movement. And by now, it's an institution.
When I was immersed in that community 40 years ago, and being a friendly Christian person who believes all can be redeemed, I would sometimes find out the life story of many of these folks. And I usually heard about being seduced by an older person—a priest, teacher or coach; or the death of a parent and/or time spent in foster care, wrecking their childhood; or serious neglect or sexual abuse by a parent. Few were just in it for no reason—only to be faced with a tsunami of wicked promotion of the lifestyle when they came of age. Good therapy might have saved a few. But even Republican governors have participated in outlawing anything considered "conversion" therapy.
That said, the more recent "marriage" and adoption of children movements truly make me ill. The truth needs to be told--it's a highly dysfunctional and even dangerous way of life; and its ascendance is very destruction to our society.
They are free to be just as loud in their denunciations, but I only hear crickets from that quarter. So, I must conclude that they at least, in part, agree with the activists.
They have, as Rush put it, bestowed AIDS with its own "civil rights," with everything that implies. The downstream fallout from that is that AIDS patients get to hide it from employers and get "pre-existed" for insurance coverage even before Obamacare. Activists have gotten special exemptions to join and/or remain in the Military despite having a disease of the magnitude that would easily exclude any other disease from enlisting.
The activists have achieved having their cake, and eating it too. They get to call HIV/AIDS a "disability" so that it's covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, but also NOT a disability when it comes to military service or civilian law enforcement, which have their own stringent standards for employment that are not covered by the ADA.
And most medical associations continue to pump out the lie that a major cause of the inexcusable continuation of the AIDS epidemic is "societal homophobia" and fear of seeing a doctor who is not "affirming" enough. What a laugh.
And now, they have bullied the FDA into allowing a group with an astronomically high risk of HIV/AIDS infection to donate blood!!!! That puts ALL of us a risk, as some promiscuous sodomite donates blood within the infection window period of detection blindness and infects other innocents, including children, because they screech that donating blood is their "right" and being banned is "stigmatizing."
Sorry, that group can go straight to hell.