Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, meets the Reverend Steve Parelli and his partner José Ortiz, of the US NGO Other Sheep, to find out.
If you are attracted to members of the same sex, and you aren’t happy about it, can you change? The answer is, of course, answered in ringing affirmatives by the advocates of ‘reparative therapy’, the ‘ex-gay’ movement which has spread from the US through Christian groups to many parts of the world, including Hong Kong. The movement claims (or seems to claim; more of that later) that turning to God, the exercise of will and the alteration of behaviour patterns to conform to traditional gender roles will enable a person to change his or her sexual orientation.
These claims have never been scientifically substantiated.
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I could “choose” to sleep with women as well if I wanted it bad enough, but would it change the fact that in the core of my being I am still sexually attracted to men? Of course it wouldn’t. So I would never be an ex-gay, I would just be a non-practicing gay. With how many of them are caught in same-sex scandals it’s pretty obvious to all outside observers that no matter how often they claim that black is actually white it doesn’t make it true.
Ex-gays exist like unicorns exist.
No, there is no such thing as an “ex-gay”. There are plenty of miserable gay people simulating heterosexual lifestyles, however.
So if being gay is a choice, then that means what we really should do is start up an ex-straight camp. Oh the outrage that would cause