“Ex-gay” activist Christopher Doyle was a guest on the American Family Association’s “Today’s Issues” radio broadcast this morning where he informed hosts Tim Wildmon and Ed Vitagliano that nobody is born gay but rather some people are simply born with a “sensitive temperament” that makes them think they are gay.
“There’s no such thing as a gay gene or gay hormones or gay brain. Those studies have been debunked,” Doyle said. “What the sensitive temperament does is it makes the client more vulnerable to experiencing these hurts and this lack of attachment and bonding growing up. And whenever they get to puberty, they start unconsciously sexualizing all those emotional need to the same sex.”
Doyle, who works with the “ex-gay” group Voice of the Voiceless, then continued to lay out his theory with an even more confusing explanation about how young boys who do not know other boys while growing up then become sexually attracted to boys instead of girls when they hit puberty.
“It’s really the psyche’s way of saying, ‘Hey, I want to know the same sex and I want to get to know them so therefore I’m sexualizing this emotional need because of that psychological drive,” he said. “But in actuality, if you look underneath the surface, what you see in these individuals is they have a desperate longing to have emotional intimacy with the same sex and that why they’re sexually attracted. It’s not really attraction, it’s really an emotional longing to have that relationship with a man and that’s what’s really going on there:”
