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Understanding sexual identity

By Alliance Alert

Jeremy Dys writing at the Family Policy Council of West Virginia Engage Family Blog (see video at the link): "Michael Todd Wilson, one of Exodus? counselors, has this excellent explanation of sexual identity. In summary, he says any discussion of sexual identity within homosexual behavior must be broken into three parts: 1. Same-sex attractions ? This he defines as, 'erotic pull to someone of the same gender.' Never degrade these feelings. Attractions are real, they are strong. Still, as Wilson explains, we are not to be mastered by any of our feelings. 2. Same-sex behavior ? When feelings give way to actions, thoughts, desires with/about/for members of a person?s same gender, then they are said to engage in same-sex behavior. 3. Gay identity ? This is the most complex and potentially subjective of the issues of sexual identity. In part, it is how a person with homosexual tendencies views themselves. In part, it is how that person wishes to be perceived . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).