Disaffected@DisaffectedPod
No one is more suprised than I am to have come to the view that homosexuality is usually the result of childhood abuse and neglect. No one is more shocked than I am at myself to be the one to say that gays should not be adopting children.
For those who "hate" my online persona now that I've said that, contemplate something. I was YOU. I was that radical gay activist. The party boy. The political agitator. The "born this way" gay.
I was you. I believed what you did. I agitated as you agitate. I called people like me "psychiatrically ill, dangerous bigots," just as you now see me.
I know.
Yet, I believe that I'm seeing the truth and saying the truth. You may find people like me irritating or angering, but your pique doesn't hold a candle to how difficult it is to be a person like me, with my past, and have to accept the unpleasant truth later in life.
All that is to say that, if I can accept this, if I can accept that almost everything I clung to to make myself feel worthy of love and respect, everything I thought made me a "good person", that all of that was wrong, if I can accept that I actually did harm in my former political activities. .
. . then YOU can change your mind too. Many of you won't. But at least a few of you reading this will breathe a sigh of relief and realize you're not the only one, and you're not a bad person for seeing that the truth is not what you wanted it to be.
The truth matters more to me now than any preferences I have, any heartaches that reality causes me. And it causes me plenty.
It's OK to change your mind. It's OK to ask questions. It's OK to repudiate your former mistakes and take a different path.
In fact, it's often your moral duty.
-Josh
