CHALLENGING THE ‘TRUTHS’ OF THIS MORNING
Mike Davidson (Core Issues Trust) responded to the news of TV’s Philip Schofield coming out by sharing his own story, which has similarities but with a very different outcome.
Schofield, who has two daughters with wife Stephanie Lowe, received an outpouring of public support after he came out as gay on ITV’s This Morning. His co-presenter, Holly Willoughby, talked about him living ‘his truth’. He is currently living with his wife, but now identifies as a homosexual.
In contrast, Mike Davidson, from County Down, Northern Ireland, said: ‘I am thankful for the professionals who worked with me, who respected my goal of resolving conflicting feelings that has allowed me to remain married for 41 years. I longed for an emotional, sexual and romantic connection with a person of the same sex; I no longer have such longings. My change has meant I have been able to fulfil my desire to remain with my wife and family and to enjoy a full and complete relationship with my wife and our children.
Equal treatment
‘There is an appalling determination to promote LGBT ideology at the expense of people’s lives. If Philip Schofield is allowed to celebrate his choice, people who leave unwanted same-sex attractions should also be celebrated.’
Nevertheless, Davidson believes the professionals who helped him would be sanctioned if they did so today.
Davidson challenges the view that homosexual feelings are hardwired and that anyone who experiences them later in life ‘must have repressed them’. Increasingly, he said, those who contact his organisation, Core Issues Trust, and the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice, reject that perspective.
Threat to remaining faithful
‘These are individuals who see homosexual feelings as a threat to their desire to remain married, to be a faithful spouse or a parent who remains in the home as the best environment for raising children. Such individuals find that over time, as they meet the unmet emotional needs for connection behind homosexual desires, the same-sex or homosexual feelings dissipate. They work to free themselves from anything that further entrenches their fantasies and over time see a change in their sexual patterning.’
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