Agnurse you really are the complete right-wing, bigoted package, first I meet you on a thread peddling falsehoods about abortion to suggest people shouldn’t have them and their access to them be restricted – using arguments that come straight out of the current right-wing Christian playbook; then again on a thread about WW2 spreading the current right-wing myth that Hitler was in fact left-wing – in common with many extreme nationalists and supremacist groups trying to rebrand themselves and distance their brand from fascism; now you’re here promoting gay conversion therapy and insulting the memory, not just of the survivors of the American nightclub massacre, but by implication the many LGBTQ individuals who have been oppressed and injured by right-wing bigots of your ilk.
As for the assertion that people are queer because of sexual abuse - in other words your less-than-subtle attempt to sell the idea that it’s not natural to be queer because it’s a result of trauma, there is no definitive study that backs up your claim. Although by your logic since far, far more people who are victims of abuse grow up to be straight, sounds as if that's the more unnatural choice! And with the studies that do assert findings that accord with your prejudice, one wonders who funded them? After all, on previous threads much of your information turned out to be from right-wing or extreme Christian sites – no axes to grind there! And linking being queer to cannibalism that’s pretty out there even for you…at some point please let us in on which extreme right-wing sect you belong to, so that those of us who deal in arguments based on reality not fantasy can happily steer well clear of it.
One of the hypotheses regularly tested is that of whether sexual abuse itself can be the cause of homosexuality in adult life. The results of this research is inconclusive since some research finds a direct correlation between child abuse and homosexuality (Macmillan, 1997; Tomeo et al, 2001; Holmes et al, 1998; Doll et al, 1992; Soukup, 1995; Shrier et al, 1988; Dickson; Finkelhor, 1984), whereas other research expressly denies any correlational link (Ridley, 2003; Balsam et al 2005; Bell et al, 1981; Hammersmith, 1982; Peters & Cantrall, 1991; Slap, 1998).
The National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) 1.51% of the population of the US identify as GLBT, whereas other studies put this figure as high as 8% (Fay et al, 1989). However, statistics for people abused in childhood are significantly higher that this, with reliable estimates given for child sexual abuse to be 16% for males and 27% for females in the USA (NRCCSA, 1994).
Therefore, if there is a causal link between childhood sexual abuse and identifying as GLBT later in life, then why aren’t the figures for the number of GLBT people in the population reflected by the abuse statistics? There are significantly more cases of sexual abuse than there are people that identify as GLBT (Macmillan, 1997), and furthermore, the vast majority of persons sexually abused as children are heterosexual (Keith, 1991).
In addition to this, virtually all statistics agree that females are more likely to be sexually abused in childhood than males are – and yet, and yet there are proportionally more men that identify as being gay than there are women who identify as lesbian (Hite, 1991; Janus, 1993, Jefferson, 2001).
www.pflagatl.org/the-problem-with-the-belief-that-child-sexual-abuse-causes-homosexuality-bisexuality/