The conservative Roman Catholic media agency Zenit published a lengthy interview Jan. 24 on the alleged parental and social origins of homosexuality.
The sole subject of the article is John Harvey, founder of the pro-celibacy group Courage, who offers no scientific studies to substantiate his views.
Harvey asserts that people with predominant same-sex attraction are predisposed from an early age due to environmental factors in the home — namely, an imperfect or unbalanced relationship with mother or father. He blames parents for failing to interrupt the predisposition, but blames homosexuals and the mass media for causing youth to be “seduced into a homosexual way of living.”
Harvey warns that healthy homes must have two, opposite-gender parental figures — if not mother and father, for example, then mother and uncle or father and aunt.
Reading this left me alternatively worried about my proto-gay 6-year-old nephew, who is in Catholic school, and laughing at the desperate attempts to explain homosexuality as anything other than a normal variation on humanity.
Here we have a church that ADMITS homosexuality is not “chosen” per se, and that means the church has to use this psychological BS about “healthy psychological environments” and “social influences” in teenage years. But this guy also actually admits that homosexuality can develop as young as 3 or 4 – yet claims there is no evidence of a genetic component to homosexuality (a blatent lie given the scientific evidence). And does anyone really think that today’s junior and senior high schools are a place that encourages gay behavior?
So what is exactly going on here? What is the church’s explanation for why I am gay? Is it my parent’s fault (in which case, why isn’t my sister gay?), is it a curse from God? Why can’t it be changed (the church teaches celibacy, not conversion, for gay people)? His “understanding” of homosexuality leaves a lot to be desired.
Oh, jeez, not this silliness again
Is Homosexuality Caused by Son-Father Estrangement?
https://hem.passagen.se/nicb/quinn.htm
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