The appalling choice – accept your homosexuality or euthanise
from Christian Concern:
Dr Mike Davidson is a Director of Core Issues Trust, a Christian ministry, recognised by the HMRC for charitable purposes, working to support men and women wanting to move away from homosexual practices and feelings. In this piece, he responds to a BBC Victoria Derbyshire Show report in which a man sought euthanasia on the grounds of extreme psychological suffering, because he could not accept his unwanted same-sex attraction. His request has been accepted initially, he now faces further assessments to determine whether his case fits within the law.
Radical gay activists and the helping professionals promoting their ideology have a great deal to answer for. They have created the idea that we are born gay, and that there is only one legitimate response to that fact, which is to embrace it.
The case of ‘Sebastian’ (39) in Belgium brings this home. Unable to accept himself as a gay man, Sebastian is left to believe that the only way out is to euthanise his life, through the support of three doctors who recognise his unbearable suffering. The assumption, to be upheld at all costs it seems, is that homosexuality is an innate category and trying to alter this fact is to go against nature. This, despite the fact that the Royal College of Psychiatrists (here in the UK) affirms the important role played by environmental factors in a person’s upbringing, in shaping sexual orientation. It won’t be lost to anyone listening to Sebastian’s interview on Victoria Derbyshire that coincidentally he has an estranged father and suffered a dysfunctional home life. And yet of course, his homosexual feelings will be held as natural, wholesome and desirable. But there’s a problem with that. Such feelings are not congruent with Sebastian’s own sense of identity. He simply doesn’t want to be gay and finds burdensome the limerent feelings he develops for young men. The only alternatives he is aware of are to end his life, or, (if the Victoria Derbyshire report is to believed), access to electro-shock therapy.
He’s not unlike the majority of young men and women I will see this week, who are similarly unhappy with their inclinations towards the same-sex. They are so, despite the swooning affirmations of every political party and all mental health bodies in the United Kingdom. For the men and women that I see, gay just doesn’t work. Like Sebastian many of them have attended state approved affirmative therapeutic and counselling sessions but simply reject the presumptive pushing they have received to embrace gay and accept that it is unchangeable.
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