CULTURAL WOUNDS

Cultural wounds are experienced from the media, educational system, entertainment industry, Internet, and pornography. These influences lead to the molestation of the mind. Today, people are buying into the “myth” that homosexuality is a natural, normal, innate state of being. This is not true. There is no scientific evidence to prove this theory. Some say that several animals are naturally same-sex attracted. This is a distortion of creation to fit someone’s desperate attempt to legitimize a condition born out of emotional brokenness. “Preferential homosexuality is not found naturally in any infrahuman mammalian species. Masculine/feminine differences and hetero-sexual preferences are quite consistent up through the phylogenetic scale.”

Communism and the same-sex attreaction movement have both utilized the same strategy, which is known as the Big Lie Theory. It is a very simple principle that works like this: If you repeat anything long enough, and loud enough, over time it will become known as a fact. Some examples of these big lies, turning myths into facts, are: “Same-sex attracted people are born this way;” “Once gay, always gay;” “People with same-sex attraction cannot change;” and “Ten percent of the population is same-sex attracted.” These are all myths. They are all false.

If you take a frog and place him in boiling water, he will die immediately. If you take a frog and place him in mild water, he will happily swim. Gradually, you begin to turn up the heat. If you do it ever so slightly, he will not notice the temperature change. Eventually, the water reaches boiling level, and without notice, he dies.

And so it has gone with our cultural attitude toward same-sex attraction. Years ago, there was outrage and misunderstanding. Now, there is acceptance and misunderstanding. Members of the same-sex attraction movement have planted myths into our culture and continued to repeat these myths over a period of decades. Now, without our noticing it, same-sex attraction is accepted as an alternate lifestyle.

Many people believe these myths about same-sex attraction, which are propagated by the media (newspaper, radio, TV, magazines), the entertainment industry, the educational system, academia, the psychological community, and religious institutions. Through constant repetition of these myths, many intelligent and well-intentioned people have come to believe these lies.

Now most schools, colleges, and universities throughout the world are teaching our children on the platform of human rights and social equality, that same-sex attracted people are born this way and cannot change. The pro-motion of these myths is another factor that may influence someone to become same-sex attracted, or pull him over the line. This is cultural indoctrination for impressionable youths who are still confused about their sexual identities. There is presently a 50 to 60 percent divorce rate in the United States, which means many children are growing up without a same-sex parent. The National Fatherhood Initiative reported that by 1990, approximately 14 million children lived in mother-only households. This makes these children more vulnerable to cultural influences.

In the words of some same-sex attracted activists, “The first order of business is the desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay right. . . . You can forget about trying to persuade the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if you can get them to think that it is just another thing with a shrug of their shoulders, then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won.”

On the Internet, a young child may download pornography, seeing every imaginable and unimaginable sexual act between two men, two women, two or more of anyone or anything. This is sexual abuse and the rape of our children’s minds. Also, in many schools, sex-education curricula are teaching the normalcy of same-sex attraction, where to get it, and how to do it.

American TV shows, major motion pictures, and local news reports embrace homosexuality and same-sex relationships. In this way, more and more wounded and love-starved children are being deprived of true liberation by being enrolled into this big lie.

The Gay Rights Movement, the media, the educational system, and the mental-health profession tell us that homosexuality is normal and natural. Let us observe some of the statistics about homosexual behavior and see if this condition is, in fact, normal:

• The Kinsey Institute published a study of same-sex attracted males living in San Francisco which reports that 43 percent had sex with 500 or more partners, 28 percent had sex with 1,000 or more partners, and 79 percent said that over half of their sex partners were strangers.
• An American Public Health Association survey reported that 78 percent of same-sex attracted people surveyed have been infected by a sexually transmitted disease.
• A National Lesbian-Gay Health Foundation report revealed that alcohol and drug abuse were three times more prevalent among same-sex attracted individuals than among heterosexual individuals.
• A report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Task Force on Youth Suicide, in 1989 revealed that one-third of all teenage suicides are committed by those who suffer from same-sex attraction problems. This is an extremely high percentage considering that only 1 to 3 percent of the population is same-sex attracted.
• Same-sex attracted men are six times more likely to have attempted suicide than heterosexual men.
• McWhirter and Mattison, both therapists who are same-sex attracted, conducted a survey of 156 male couples. The results were reported in their book, The Male Couple. They found that 95 percent of the couples were unfaithful, and the 5 percent that were faithful had been together five or fewer years. This statistic is glaring in comparison to surveys conducted about the fidelity of heterosexual couples. The American Journal of Public Health reported a survey conducted with over 2,000 respondents and revealed that during a five-year period, only 6.4 percent of married couples were unfaithful, which means that 93.6 percent were faithful. The National Opinion Research Center in Chicago reported that, from over 3,400 respondents surveyed, about 3 to 4 percent of currently married people have a sexual partner besides their spouse in a given year, and about 15 to 17 percent of married people have a sexual partner other than their spouse while married. These results are opposite to the 95 percent of unfaithful same-sex attracted couples. McWhirter and Mattison themselves state, “The expectation for outside sexual activity was the rule for male couples and the exception for heterosexuals.”
• “Same-sex attracted people are at least 12 times more likely to molest children than heterosexuals; Same-sex attracted teachers are at least 7 times more likely to molest a pupil; same-sex attracted teachers are estimated to have committed at least 25 percent of pupil molestation; 40 percent of molestation assaults were made by those who engage in homosexuality.”

These statistics show us clearly that same-sex atracted behavior is neither normal nor natural. Members of the same-sex atracted community argue that social intolerance and prejudice cause these destructive behaviors. I believe there is some merit to this argument. However, the deeper reason for these unhealthy behaviors is the emotional brokenness that caused the same-sex attraction condition in the first place. The social prejudice merely exacerbates the already existing pain lodged deep in their souls.

Kurt, an honors student at a magnet high school, became addicted to male pornography on the Internet. His father installed many devices on the computer to keep him from accessing those Web sites. However, Kurt was able to break each code and continued to view pornography regularly. What he saw and what he read enrolled him further and further into the same-sex attracted lifestyle. This led to compulsive masturbation and isolation from his peers.

Nathan’s wife sent him to see me in hopes that I could “fix” him. Nathan revealed to his wife that he was “gay” and would seek divorce after twenty years of marriage. Nathan had repressed his same-sex attractions for almost fifty years. Now, he would seek to fulfill those “natural” desires. Having read the media reports about the “gay gene” and the biological explanations for homosexuality, he was convinced that he was born “gay.” He eventually moved out, divorced his wife, went into the same sex attracted lifestyle, and died of AIDS while seeking Mr. Right.