The results reveal that while the majority of evangelicals do not
consider homosexual feelings to be «wrong», the majority do believe that homosexual actions are «wrong».»
Thus, I believe it is worth pondering whether some of our common reactions against homosexuality might be linked to secret fears
of homosexual feelings ourselves — Freud's «reaction formation,» defending against an impulse felt in oneself by attacking it in others.
Though, for the majority of us, our adult genital expression may have been exclusively heterosexual, it is quite probable that we do
experience homosexual feelings even if such are frequently relegated to the unconscious level.
We bring the gay demons out of these individuals so they can become who god intended them to be... Facing the reality that you have
unwanted homosexual feelings can cause tremendous turmoil — especially as a child whose feelings conflict with deeply held values, beliefs and life goals.
«The fact that [Victim] features a sympathetic homosexual protagonist — the first in British cinema — was no small matter, and the effect it would have had on a boy of 16 struggling with his
own homosexual feelings is incalculable.
«People need to understand that, just because people choose to engage in homosexual behaviour does not mean people choose to have
homosexual feelings.
One commentator makes the important observation that
homosexual feelings are not chosen.
Science contributes to the development of the modern homosexual identity by inviting people to think in deterministic ways about their feelings: if people sense within
themselves homosexual feelings, they are more likely to interpret these feelings as inevitable and as determined by some necessary biological or psychological force.
Seen sub specie aeternitatis, encouraging someone to believe that we don't really know what God thinks about sexuality, and that each of us must work it out for ourselves, and anyway it doesn't matter much as long as we do our recycling and volunteer at a homeless shelter, is as serious an error as telling them that God hates them because they have
homosexual feelings.
Consider the following statement, which is presented as a model example of the «development» of Catholic teaching, one that is likely to «gain higher marks» if used appropriately in the GCSE exam: «The Roman Catholic Church thinks that homosexuality is wrong, but that
homosexual feelings are not.
A path that leads them to resolve rather than fight
their homosexual feelings.
«There is very little evidence to show that attempting to treat a person's
homosexual feelings is effective and in fact it can actually be harmful,» said Professor Michael King from the University College London (UCL).