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| style="padding:15px;" |“...when Christopher was sixteen years old ... I found out from his brother that he had a sexual relationship with a thirty-year-old man. ... Sure, Christopher may have sought the man out, but no matter how you look at it, this man had used and soiled my son. ...I was also furious at the man who took advantage of my son. Christopher was robbed of the chance to be a normal teenager, and what's worse, I couldn't tell anyone about it.”<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; Angela Yuan, mother of [[Christopher Yuan]]<ref name="Yuan's Book">{{cite book |title=Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.|author1=Christopher Yuan |author2=Angela Yuan |year=2011 |publisher=WaterBrook Press |pages=2 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=UNwhUqPuDcqbtQb4qID4Bg&hl=sk&id=g3KR3nFcl1oC |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |quote=That. He couldn't even say the word...Christopher had contacted the man, who then invited him over. ...}}</ref></div>

| style="padding:15px;" |“...when Christopher was sixteen years old ... I found out from his brother that he had a sexual relationship with a thirty-year-old man. ... Sure, Christopher may have sought the man out, but no matter how you look at it, this man had used and soiled my son. ...I was also furious at the man who took advantage of my son. Christopher was robbed of the chance to be a normal teenager, and what's worse, I couldn't tell anyone about it.”<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; Angela Yuan, mother of [[Christopher Yuan]]<ref name="Yuan's Book">{{cite book |title=Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.|author1=Christopher Yuan |author2=Angela Yuan |year=2011 |publisher=WaterBrook Press |pages=2 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=UNwhUqPuDcqbtQb4qID4Bg&hl=sk&id=g3KR3nFcl1oC |isbn=978-0-307-72935-4 |quote=That. He couldn't even say the word...Christopher had contacted the man, who then invited him over. ...}}</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. Many men like [[CNN]] anchor Don Lemon who identify as “gay” were sexually abused by adult men as boys.<ref name="LaBarberaFEB2017">{{cite web |title=Founder of first ‘ex-gay’ ministry dies, and the tributes are pouring in |author=Peter LaBarbera |publisher=LifeSiteNews |date=20 Feb 2017 |url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tributes-pour-in-for-frank-worthen-father-of-ex-gay-ministry-who-died-at-ag |accessdate= 31 Mar 2017}}</ref> 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.

While abuse is a common factor in male homosexuality, the correlation of [[Child molestation|childhood sexual molestation]] with adult [[lesbianism]] is almost universal, and that of many people who have ministered to or professionally observed women who misidentify themselves as lesbians. In their cases, however, the molestations are far more often perpetrated by men than by women and are almost never later characterized as consensual. Virtually every lesbian [[Scott Lively|Lively]] have ever known personally was sexually molested by a man when she was a child or early adolescent. In fact, it is not unreasonable to define these women’s later adult lesbianism as a retreat from the company of men.

While abuse is a common factor in male homosexuality, the correlation of [[Child molestation|childhood sexual molestation]] with adult [[lesbianism]] is almost universal, and that of many people who have ministered to or professionally observed women who misidentify themselves as lesbians. In their cases, however, the molestations are far more often perpetrated by men than by women and are almost never later characterized as consensual. Virtually every lesbian [[Scott Lively|Lively]] have ever known personally was sexually molested by a man when she was a child or early adolescent. In fact, it is not unreasonable to define these women’s later adult lesbianism as a retreat from the company of men.