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An interview with Dawn Wilde, the author of ‘Confessions of a recovering lesbian’

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Image via Wikipedia FAIRBANKS, Alaska , January 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In a compelling testimony titled “ Confessions of a Recovering Lesbian ,” a woman struggling with attraction to other women shares how, despite being involved in a youthful lesbian relationship, and ongoing attraction to women, she is now a Catholic, happily-married homeschooling mother of five children. In her testimony Dawn Wilde (name changed) takes to task the argument that homosexual people are simply “born that way” and says that that people don’t have to “indulge same-sex attraction ” just because they might “experience it.” LifeSiteNews contacted Dawn and asked her to reveal more of her gripping story. LSN:  You wrote in your story that there were many factors in your past that made you “vulnerable to same-sex attraction”. You were not only abandoned by your birth mother , but grew up being physically abused by your mentally-ill adoptive mother. What kind of physical abuse did you suffer from you

The Gay Paradign vs Gay Identity

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Image via Wikipedia In recent years, activists push­ing for a “ gay rights” political agenda, such as the legaliza­tion of same-sex marriage and the overturning of the law against open homo­sexuality in the military, have become increasingly virulent in their attacks upon social con­servatives who oppose that agenda. Examples of these attacks include a federal judge declaring that the pas­sage of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008 could only have been motivated by hostility toward gay and les­bian individuals 1 , and the 2010 announcement by the Southern Poverty Law Center that it classifies several pro-family organizations as “anti-gay hate groups.” 2 Such attacks reveal a fundamental misunderstanding (if not deliberate misrepresentation) of the beliefs, arguments, and motives of social conservatives . This misunderstanding arises from the existence of two completely different paradigms , or fundamental ways of understanding the nature of homosexuality. The “Gay Identity” Paradi