Orthodox Psychotherapy: My Conversation with Fr. Mikhail Baleka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuwPfRXc-nw
The Truth About Pride Parades: My Conversation with Joshua Slocum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sFFY1QCv_A
The Hidden and Secret Things: Healing Catholic Wounds in Orthodoxy
“For behold, Thou hast loved truth; the hidden and secret things of They wisdom hast Thou made manifest unto me. Though shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be made clean; Though shalt wash
The Gay Catholic Civil War, Part Deux
“If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?”― Dante Alighieri, Inferno In 1993, I met a Mid-Western transplant who recently moved to the Castro from his conservative Bible-Belt small town. Resembling thousands of
From Gay Activist to Orthodoxy: My Conversation with Robert Pavlick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IezpdL00BCw
Gays, Greeks, and Christianity: My Conversation with Fr. George Aquaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF86OYgDkPU
The Gay War Against Arthur Goldberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SuwyMUlIQ
Same-Sex Attraction and Childhood Sexual Abuse – The Evidence
In the 21st Century, LGBT activists and their allies have repeatedly claimed that gay people are born gay; and trans people are born in the wrong body. But there is no evidence to substantiate any
Gay: Nature, Nurture or Trauma?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGvVOatObA
Groomed by Gays: Abuse, Transgenderism, and the Homosexual Infiltration of CONservatism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZhPabMJg2A
The Battle Over LGBT Ideology: My Conversation with Brandon Showalter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtP3HC4b4U
The Rainbow Cult and Mental Health: My Conversation with Fr. Ben Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcGzlxSEz0
The TRUTH About Gays Against Groomers: My Conversation with Daren Mehl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwrDs8aR_lE
The LGBT War Against Orthodoxy: My Conversation with Fr. John Whiteford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ViMQ78Cuk
Masculinity, TV Westerns, and Brokeback Mountain
“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.” – Robert Bly From the early-1950s to the late-60s, there were over a hundred Western
Childhood Trauma, Homosexuality, and the Prison of the Mind
I have no formal education in the fields of psychiatry or psychology – this essay is merely an exploration of my own experiences as a person with mental illness. A person who sprained their ankle
The Wound That Wouldn’t Heal
Above: Edvard Munch, "Melancholy" (1892.) As a child, I think I was a bit of a dreamer. My father and mother worked to exhaustion, trying to give their children a better life. And my siblings,
James Martin argues that the Catechism contributes to LGBT youth suicide
In a recent interview, James Martin, S.J., clearly implied (by repeating gay-advocacy talking-points) that language in “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” directly contributes to the high level of teen suicides among LGBT young people. [Interviewer] Well
HIV, Gay Marriage, and the Crisis in Male Homosexuality
Above: Hugh Steers, "Breathing" (1987). There exists today a massive crisis within the “gay” community that is a direct result of the intense trauma, particularly in “gay” men, experienced during the height of AIDS epidemic.
Born to Bottom; or God didn’t make me gay.
(Above: Scene from the 2016 film "The Lost City of Z.") “Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?” – Evelyn Waugh, “Brideshead Revisited” I was the last one born into my family.
Surviving Gay…Barely
Marble Torso of a God or Athlete, Roman Imperial, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D. In 1989, I walked into the world famous Castro District of San Francisco as a disaffected young man of almost nineteen years
The Ugly Truth About Gay Male Sex
According to the CDC: “Anal sex is the riskiest type of sex for getting or transmitting HIV.” Causes “immunosuppression…” …the immunosuppression in homosexual males that is reported even in apparently healthy or HTLV-III-antibody-negative groups may
Same-Sex Attraction, Chastity, and Porn Attachments
As a lonely and rejected little boy, my first discovery of gay pornography was like a miracle. In a sense, after years of being either ignored or mercilessly teased by other boys, and thus adoring
As I stood on the edge of hell, God was only one step away
Once I looked into the hole of hell. It was opened wide as if by a massive speculum. And what I saw inside was beautiful. Then, only for a mere second, I could see everything.
The False “Gay” Self, Possession, and Restoration through Humility
(Above: “The Prodigal Son” by Nikolay Losev, late-19th Century.) "The Holy Spirit is not an artist who draws the divine substance in us, as though he were alien to it. It is not in this
The Cult: gay as religious fanaticism
(Pictured above: the gay god Antinous.) The gay god: “When he first came to New York he used to stay for days, and wanted to live there; the Baths were a kind of paradise. But
CDC: High rates of STDs among gay men
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (collectively referred to as MSM) are at increased risk for STDs, including antimicrobial resistant gonorrhea, when compared to women and exclusively heterosexual men. Because STDs,
The Raw Reality of Locker-Room Talk: An ex-gay perspective
(Above: Detail from "The Shower After the Battle" by Alexandre Alexandrovitch Deineka, 1944.) For some “gay” men, one of the most traumatic memories of high-school is the embarrassing and uncomfortable experience of gym class and
“gay” men more likely to catch STI if on PrEP
“We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize rates of sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV versus MSM not using PrEP. Incidence rate ratios showed that
Epidemic of STIs and drug use among happy “gay” men in San Francisco
Although the number of HIV infections among “gay” men in San Francisco have decreased, there are also disturbing and dramatic increases in sexual transmitted infections including rectal gonorrhea and syphilis. The drop in HIV infections
The continuing reality of untreated mental illness in the gay community
For the first time in its long history, the 2013 and 2014 National Health Interview Survey included a question on sexual orientation, providing health information on sexual minorities from one of the nation’s leading health
New York City and the New Gay Wasteland
A new study of “gay” men who recently relocated to New York City, from both outside the country and within the US, revealed that: “Participants described encountering an abundance of sexual opportunity in New York
Gays More Suicidal…and so are gay married couples
According to a study in Sweden: “The risk of suicide was higher among same-sex married individuals as compared to different-sex married individuals…Among same-sex married men the suicide risk was nearly three-fold greater as compared to
Gay Marriage and Transgenderism – A Sign of Civilization’s Decline and Fall
St. Alexius of Rome lived from about 410-460 AD; this period was at the heart of cultural, social, and political collapse in the already waning Roman Empire; during this period, as a whole, Rome was
The “gay” church within the Church: LA Archdiocese parish promotes a radical pro-gay agenda
(Pictured above: Comunidad's Marie Cartier at the Hollywood Cemetery.) In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Parish in Long Beach, is headquartered an outreach to lesbian and gay Catholics, called Comunidad. A
More celebrities come-out as “gay” – more stories about dad and dysfunctional childhoods
Recently, the actor, model, and teen-idol Colton Haynes, most famous for appearing in the hit TV shows “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow,” came-out as “gay.” Born in Kansas in 1988, Haynes and his family relocated to