Posted on 12/17/2025 10:56:34 AM PST by Twotone
Don’t dismiss Milo Yiannopoulos.
He may be provocative, but he’s right. In his recent two-and-a-half-hour conversation with Tucker Carlson, Yiannopoulos dares to speak the truth about homosexuality.
It is a truth many are afraid to acknowledge, despite its firm grounding in scientific research. In fact, I found myself wondering, “Have they been eavesdropping at the Ruth Institute?”
'Born' fallacy
At the top of the list: Yiannopoulos explains that the “born gay” idea was invented as a marketing strategy. He accurately summarizes the strategy laid out in “After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred of Gays in the 90’s.” Treat “sexual orientation” as if it were genetic, comparable to race.
Yiannopoulos rejects the “sexual orientation paradigm” or “essentialist paradigm.” He does not believe “sexual orientation” is an inborn trait that is an “essential” feature of a person’s personality.
And he is right.
Gay is not the “new black.” There is no gay gene. The twin studies are inconsistent with the idea of a genetic “cause” of “gay.” I outlined the evidence against the “born gay” idea in my report Refuting the Top 5 Gay Myths.
A trauma response
Although “gay” is a complex of thoughts, feelings, political commitments, and much more, when people say “gay,” they most likely mean “sexual arousal template.” We have been sold the idea that a “gay” man or a “lesbian” woman has an arousal template “oriented” exclusively toward people of the same sex.
The gay activists are really saying two things combined. First, people are born with a sexual arousal template preloaded into their brains. Second, this template cannot be changed.
Yiannopoulos takes direct aim at this package deal, when he says “[homosexuality] is a trauma response.” Trauma can shape the development of a person’s arousal pathways. He cited his own case. He had a mobster father, whom he did not want to emulate. As a teenager, he was sexually abused by a priest who was kind to him.
People are born with the potential to develop a sexual arousal template that is oriented toward the opposite sex. But sometimes, something happens to derail that normal developmental process.
People who self-describe as gay, lesbian, or bisexual typically have more difficult childhoods than others. They report more adverse childhood events, including a higher likelihood of childhood sexual abuse. Many in the psychology profession deny that there is a causal connection. But people who have lived the experience will tell you otherwise.
Including Yiannopoulos.
Must stay gay?
Instead of a mechanical “cause” such as genetics, it is more accurate to think of a set of factors that contribute to the development of persistent same-sex attraction.
Yiannopoulos listed some of those contributing causes: an absent or unattractive father figure, an overbearing mother, sexual abuse. No one factor always “causes” same-sex attraction in every person. At the Ruth Institute, we have interviewed numerous people who have Left Pride Behind who report some version of this story.
Yiannopoulos and Carlson talked about the bans on so-called “conversion therapy.” They were shocked that anyone would try to regulate conversations between a client and a therapist. "Why are you keeping people gay against their will?"
You can complain all day long about Yiannopoulos. But he is right. That is exactly what these laws are doing. We at the Ruth Institute ran a campaign in June called “Must Stay Gay Is NOT Okay!” Believe me: We did not run out of things to talk about!
They discussed the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that will decide whether these bans violated the U.S. Constitution. The Ruth Institute submitted an amicus brief to the court in this case, called Chiles v. Salazar.
Finding real hope
Most importantly, Yiannopoulos gives hope to people who want more for themselves than a life shaped by an LGBT identity. Therapy can help, especially if you focus on healing the part of you that was wounded. The sexual feelings change in the process.
Finally, Yiannopoulos made no secret of his personal religious conversion. He has been touched by love, the ultimate love of Jesus Christ. Interviewees have told me some version of this story again and again. In fact, I experienced it myself. Same-sex attraction wasn’t my particular problem. But participation in the hookup culture, abortion, and contraception certainly were my problems. I needed the grace of the confessional, the Eucharist, and, no doubt, the prayers of many people who loved me more than I knew.
Come to think of it, maybe Yiannopoulos and Carlson weren’t really listening in on our conversations at the Ruth Institute after all. Maybe it's just that when people go searching for the truth, they end up in roughly the same place.
No one is born gay. No one has to stay gay. No matter what you have been through, gay is not the final word about your identity. Jesus has healed many people. He can heal you.
Milo Yiannopoulos is right.
If they truly believed people that are gay are all born that way, they wouldn’t need to recruit as much as they do.
Yup.
If they reported the truth they would report that a majority of gays would report that they were molested as children by older gays.
Yes.
Twin studies have shown this is true. My suspicion however is that the predilection is epigenetically heritable as a result of sexual trauma suffered by the progenitor.
Gay perversion is a BEHAVIOUR!!!!
It is not an identity
Behaviors can be modified.
Once upon a time on Twitter I came across one of Milo’s Tweets.
I thought it had another meaning, symbolically. It didn’t though.
But I kept persistantly asking, ‘but what does it mean’. Can’t remember but it was something like, ‘now I’m saying goodnight’ or signing off or something.
He was very kind and answered me several times trying to get through to my thick skull it was just ‘say goodnight’.
Gad. I wish I could tell him how nice he was that night. I was so dumb about it, just couldn’t get it into my head he was not talking in code, lol.
The “born gay” idea was invented as a marketing strategy.
Indeed as was the race card and the misuse of the word democracy democrats sucker any nonthinking person into anything for a vote.
Media Approved
My younger brother confided to my sister that he “turned gay” because women wouldn’t date him. I knew the “born gay” stuff was crap from the beginning.
I’ve said that if you are a white Christian hetero male, you are bombarded in college with messages that you’re the oppressor. What’s a liberal man to do? He can’t pretend he’s not white. So, a-ha! He can choose to be gay and instantly flip from “oppressor” to “victim”.
A lesbian I know once confided to me that she was raped as a child by her uncle. So she’s been repulsed by men pretty much ever since.
The trauma factor is real for both sexes.
I have followed Milo for years. He is spot on!
When I was in my teens and early 20’s, I was approached three times by older men asking strange questions.
Told my parents as I didn’t know what it was all about.
I understand now.
I was being recruited.
Dodged those bullets!
IMHO, male and female homosexuals are made (groomed!), not born!
“Every homosexual person I have ever known has multiple mental co-morbidities. Nearly all of them admit to having been sexually abused (though they don’t usually call it that) when they were children. The ones who don’t admit it are lying.”
That has been my experience, also!
Had a gay (male) friend in college who was part of our group. He was highly intellegent, with a wicked sense of humor - like Milo
His stories about the “gay lifestyle” would curl your toes. He had (what I now know was) a “typical” gay-formative childhood - broken home, troubled mother, groomed/caught up with “family friend” at 13, attempted suicide.
He didn’t hold back on his dislike for hypocritical political homosexuals, or particularly old homosexuals, who he said were ALL predators. Even at 22 I sensed he was “done with it all” and I encouraged him to simply disconnect. Like being an alcoholic - first simply stop the behavior. Abstain, and then, work on self-analysis and change. I wasn’t Catholic then, otherwise, I would have called him to Christ.
I really appreciate knowing him - because he gave a stupid college-propagandized me a insider-view, and counterweight to all the pro LGBTQ propaganda and leftist “love is love” BS.
Finally, Yiannopoulos made no secret of his personal religious conversion. He has been touched by love, the ultimate love of Jesus Christ. Interviewees have told me some version of this story again and again. In fact, I experienced it myself. Same-sex attraction wasn’t my particular problem. But participation in the hookup culture, abortion, and contraception certainly were my problems. I needed the grace of the confessional, the Eucharist, and, no doubt, the prayers of many people who loved me more than I knew.
I’m in my 90’s now, but I recall back in the `1960’s and on, during the hippie craze when homosexuality was becoming a buzz word, I was in an evening college class discussing the subject and most all agreed they had never known a homosexual person. We had a study assigned in which we learned there was absolutely no scientific basis and that it was a learned condition. And as I recall the psychology associations showed research that approximately 2% of the American population claimed to be homosexual, slightly more for males and less for females.
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