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| style="padding:15px;" |“When I was five years old an adult male confronted me in a sexual manner. As a child I was very emotionally sensitive, artistic, and musical…”<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; [[Dennis Jernigan]]<ref name="NoOneBornGay">{{cite book |title=No One is Born Gay |url=https://www.dennisjernigan.com/needhelp/1257-no-one-is-born-gay

| style="padding:15px;" |“When I was five years old an adult male confronted me in a sexual manner. As a child I was very emotionally sensitive, artistic, and musical…”<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; [[Dennis Jernigan]]<ref name="NoOneBornGay">{{cite book |title=No One is Born Gay |url=https://www.dennisjernigan.com/needhelp/1257-no-one-is-born-gay

|author=Dennis Jernigan |publisher=DennisJernigan.com |quote=I used to struggle daily with unwanted same sex attraction – unwanted homosexuality. From my earliest recollections I felt drawn to other males. Many circumstances came my way that only seemed to reinforce those feelings. When I was five years old an adult male confronted me in a sexual manner. As a child I was very emotionally sensitive, artistic, and musical…and the other boys at school in my formative years seemed to relish in reminding me how much of a fag I was. In my college days, a friend and mentor – married with children, Christian, and community leader – made a sexual advance…and I was convinced this was my lot in life. The only problem with that is that I became more miserable than ever. When I got to the end of my rope, God met me there with a new identity and the power to change my way of thinking. To my great dismay (but not to my surprise), the world has begun to think in an upside-down manner, calling what is righteous ridiculous and what is perverse normal and acceptable.|accessdate=2 Jul 2016}}</ref></div>

|author=Dennis Jernigan |publisher=DennisJernigan.com |quote=I used to struggle daily with unwanted same sex attraction – unwanted homosexuality. From my earliest recollections I felt drawn to other males. Many circumstances came my way that only seemed to reinforce those feelings. When I was five years old an adult male confronted me in a sexual manner. As a child I was very emotionally sensitive, artistic, and musical…and the other boys at school in my formative years seemed to relish in reminding me how much of a fag I was. In my college days, a friend and mentor – married with children, Christian, and community leader – made a sexual advance…and I was convinced this was my lot in life. The only problem with that is that I became more miserable than ever. When I got to the end of my rope, God met me there with a new identity and the power to change my way of thinking. To my great dismay (but not to my surprise), the world has begun to think in an upside-down manner, calling what is righteous ridiculous and what is perverse normal and acceptable.|accessdate=2 Jul 2016}}</ref></div>

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Childhood sexual abuse is likely the most common cause of homosexual disoriented self-misidentification. Children are deeply traumatized by sexual abuse and this trauma often results in the adoption of a [[ABC_Theory_of_Emotion#Homosexual_Lifestyle|homosexual lifestyle]] as an adult. A review of the autobiographies of “gay” leaders is enough to confirm this assertion. A large number of them report homosexual molestation by an adult during their childhood or early adolescence, from the German “grandfather of the ‘gay’ movement,” [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]], to the father of the American “gay” movement, [[Harry Hay]], and many of the leading activists of the past half-century. Significantly, however, in the case of many of those who do later adopt a homosexual pseudoidentity, these early sexual encounters are not characterized as abuse or molestation, but more often as “consensual” sex.

Childhood sexual abuse is likely the most common cause of homosexual disoriented self-misidentification. Children are deeply traumatized by sexual abuse and this trauma often results in the adoption of a [[ABC_Theory_of_Emotion#Homosexual_Lifestyle|homosexual lifestyle]] as an adult. A review of the autobiographies of “gay” leaders is enough to confirm this assertion. A large number of them report homosexual molestation by an adult during their childhood or early adolescence, from the German “grandfather of the ‘gay’ movement,” [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]], to the father of the American “gay” movement, [[Harry Hay]], and many of the leading activists of the past half-century. Significantly, however, in the case of many of those who do later adopt a homosexual pseudoidentity, these early sexual encounters are not characterized as abuse or molestation, but more often as “consensual” sex.