I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t take your posts seriously because your writing is full of spelling errors, word usage errors, lack of punctuation, run-on sentences, neverending paragraphs that wander aimlessly, and text-message-style shorthand.

Jeff Williamson’s parents did the right thing by asking their son to see a repair therapist & @least hear a different view. Jeff Williamson didn’t want r.t., but that doesn’t mean that later in life he won’t change his mind. For every Jeff Williamson you write about, there are youths who see repair therapists because they want to be straight & differed with their 1st therapists who pompously told them that affirmation is the only option. Incidentally, I don’t think affirmation therapy is needed for homosexuality, just as I don’t believe affirmation is needed for obesity or drug use. If some1 wants to be a homosexual or lesbian behaviorally, whether or not orientation changes all they have to do is behaviorally engage in it. Your thoughts are again welcome, but keep in mind that you won’t raise anything significantly new which I haven’t heard before. Of course, this topic has been discussed so many times, that it’s hard to think of new ideas other than doing reruns.

While they may well have not had what we would consider a consumated gay relationship (both were eunichs), they were definitely both outside the heterosexual norm.

Funny how often the heros of the Bible didn’t conform to the norm, isn’t it?

He replied and told me that the relationships he had in mind are:

1. Ruth & Naomi

2. Daniel & Ashpenaz

3. David & Jonathan

He also stated that from the Bible’s text it is “difficult if not impossible to truly determine if they were actual homosexual relationships.” He simply noted that they are described in ways that “seem to indicate an unusual closeness and intimacy, words that are often associated with heterosexual couples recorded in the Bible.”

I don’t mean to advertise, but we had a long series of critique and rebuttal between Dr. Patrick Chapman and the authors of the study. I’ve not seen a more thorough treatment of it anywhere, so if you are interested in the study, check it out and follow the links to each part.

As you may see if you try to play my video, it is no longer available. (as of 3/26/08) After seeing the ramifications of having parts of my story in the public domain, I have personally requested that it be take off-line and re-shot to allow a closer focus on what I would like to say. I have no animosity towards my family, or the counselor I saw for one session. I knew that nothing was wrong with me, and that I would not enter a reparative therapy program. I certainly did not mean that my counselor had ANY malicious intent or agenda in mind during our one-hour session. This story was to inspire those people who face the possibility of being forced into therapy at their resistance that there are other options, and to understand that acceptance of their sexuality is healthy and good.

This is MY story to tell, and as such I have every right to make sure it focuses on the right things and does not vilify those in the counseling or psychological profession. This does NOT help those who would face reparative therapy programs. We must endure to focus on them; to strengthen and educate those who need our help.

I would like to ask that everyone please understand why I asked for this action to take place. I do not wish my story become a lightning rod for action against my counselor who I do respect for his work with couples. I may not agree with his therapy in other areas, but his name did not need to be published and his website forced off-line.

When this video becomes active again, it will show a focused energy towards encouraging people who may be forced to go to reparative therapy programs against their will that they have it within themselves to reject such therapy if they so choose (as was my choice to reject starting reparative therapy). It will tell MY story the way I believe I should have been more careful to tell. It will speak about the incredible relationship that I now have with my family, and acceptance that my family has come to, and ultimately their support of me as a gay man.

If you would like to contact me, my email if jeff.t.williamson@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Jeff Williamson