Great story and it's always nice to hear of someone making a change like that in life.
I am from the camp that people ARE born gay. My theory is that women under a particular kind of stress at a particular time of gestation causes changes in the hormonal makeup of the fetus/baby and causes homosexuality. Just my theory. But, I also look at it the same as, say, alcoholism. Most alcoholics claim this is genetic and/or a disease that they were born with the propensity to drink uncontrollably. But same w/ gays, IMO, you don't just say I was born this way therefore I drink myself into oblivion (although some do, many get sober--or repent). The same should be the lifestyle of gays. That they turn from this behavior and practice a life of celibacy or heterosexuality and not continue the behavior.
His article made alot of sense in that (even though he didn't directly say it) that it is completely unacceptable in the gay community to state you want to live a straight life. They go OFF on the Exodus group and anyone that talks of turning away or repenting from gay life.
Regardless, its a very sad life and he's right about the misery. I know several gays and they are all miserable. Every one of them. You cannot bond with the same sex like you do with the opposite sex. God didn't make us that way.
"My theory is that women under a particular kind of stress at a particular time of gestation causes changes in the hormonal makeup of the fetus/baby and causes homosexuality."
I prefer scientific statistics. For example, most practicing homosexual women have had an abortion before engaging in same sex behavior. Post traumatic stress disorders are probably what lead women to a defensive same sex attraction. Defensive, because to kill one's own child is a terrible tragedy. Many homosexual women don't stop being attracted to men (and are statistically more promiscuous), and I seriously doubt that "born gay" has much to do with such behavior. The human heart is always hungering for True Love. We will never find rest until we rest with God.
"I am from the camp that people ARE born gay."
I was almost convinced of the same, until the gay lobby started fighting for adoption rights and started finding ways to have babies (i.e. sperm donors or egg donors). At that point, their natural desires are made known. If a gay person is naturally gay, then it would make sense that their internal drive to procreate would not exist. The fact that they have the internal drive to be parents, tells me that they are not "naturally" gay. If their natural state does not allow them to become parents, then then why would they have such a desire to procreate?
I am less convinced of that. All my gay friends have had strong mothers and non-existent fathers. It has often been months before they mention their fathers and I usually assumed by then that he wasn't in the home. I have often been wrong about that. It seems they have never made the natural break between mother and son which occurs around 3 - 5, and wanted to be 'like daddy". Just an observation.