Apologies for being such a logorrheic, sesquipedalian blunderbuss.

I am not sure I really want to explain my emotional outburst; I think it was disrespectful to some sincere people. But you see, to me, teaching kids and youths that their natural sexual orientation - fully equipped for equal, mutual love - is an inherent sin is one of the worst kinds of child abuse. This is an idea that causes needless and terrible suffering, over and over. BLs have to worry,legitimately, about whether their sexual attentions are good for boys, but there is no question that gay relationships benefit both partners. The idea that doing this good to a partner should be a sin is simply a wall against good, and thus against God.

The ex-gay movement just prolongs this terrible thing into adult embarrassment and something way out at the far end of frustration. Sylvia Pennington, who I mentioned to you before, wrote a good but very long book called "Ex-Gays? There Are None!" that went into great detail interviewing people about their experiences over time.

If you have to experiment with this, go ahead, but I am obliged to warn you - there is an initial surge of enthusiasm, possibly compounded by the discovery of young males that they can have sex with almost anything if they're horny enough, including people who would usually repel them, and then, reality sets back in. And that's a very hard reversal to go through.