Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and
felt that he had not addressed himself to
homosexual love even though he spoke of having
experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14 years).
Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the
homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt
feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family»
experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.