I can actually say that I’m not too surprised by “Pray Away the Gay.” My family tried to do something like that the first time they found out I was gay.  A co-worker of my sister, who is gay, saw me on a website and told her and she told my dad.  They made me talk to my pastor and their pastor and I was supposed to “change.” I agreed to have a filter installed on my computer to block out all the “evil” websites, including Facebook and MySpace, among with the other surely gay site. After a while my computer crashed or something and I didn’t reinstall the filter and started browsing some sites again.  During the whole time I was supposed to “change” I never once stopped having feelings about guys, I saw a hot guy and I had all kinds of thoughts about him, I did think at the time that it was wrong and I shouldn’t be having these thoughts, but I still did.  Finally, after about a very unhappy year, I decided to let myself be gay again. And when I finally came out to my family, they wanted me to talk to my former pastor or go to some kind of counseling because they of course thought it was wrong. My dad asked me if I wanted to know why I had these feelings for guys and I told him I don’t need to know why, it doesn’t matter, I have them and therefore, I’m gay.

So just from my little history, “Pray Away the Gay” isn’t a foreign concept, but I can say with confidence that it surely didn’t work for me. I don’t think that it can work at all, but then again, what do I know. Some will say that being gay is a choice that I’ve made, but I don’t agree one bit. Why would I make this choice?  I have always had feelings for guys, ever since I was a child! It’s just how I am, how I was made…