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Posted: 4/24/09 at 2:50pm
CARRINGTON LEI: Now, a part of the reason so many people take issue with you is because you believe that homosexuality is a choice and can be, I?m not sure how to phrase this ? is "cured" the right word?
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Cured is what they have said in order to make it more villainous or controversial. Most of the things you read that I?ve said, I have not said. There?s always a spin on it, it?s all according to whose telling the story ? it?s not good print if it?s not controversial.
I never said that I was cured from anything, I said that I was delivered, and that?s what God does - He delivers.
CARRINGTON LEI: So, when you say delivered, does that mean that you were delivered from homosexuality ? or the ability to act on a same-sex attraction, because there?s a difference.
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Is there a difference?
CARRINGTON LEI: I absolutely believe that there is a difference. You considered yourself gay at one point and now you say that you?re delivered. To me, the term delivered can be pretty ambiguous, depending on how you use it. The difference in saying, ?I?m attracted to the same sex, but I?m choosing not to act on my attraction? and not having an attraction at all is vastly different.
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Not at all. The bottom line is that it?s all the same. It?s by not choosing to act that the attraction and the appetite starts to abate and wane.
I?m a diabetic now and I don?t eat sugar, but it doesn?t mean that I don?t want sugar. The more I don?t eat the sugar, the more I lose the taste for sugar and the more my diet starts to change permanently ? I can?t stand a regular soda now because it?s too much sugar. So, the more I don?t intake the sugar, the more it leaves out of my desire.
Girl!
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Cured is what they have said in order to make it more villainous or controversial. Most of the things you read that I?ve said, I have not said. There?s always a spin on it, it?s all according to whose telling the story ? it?s not good print if it?s not controversial.
I never said that I was cured from anything, I said that I was delivered, and that?s what God does - He delivers.
CARRINGTON LEI: So, when you say delivered, does that mean that you were delivered from homosexuality ? or the ability to act on a same-sex attraction, because there?s a difference.
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Is there a difference?
CARRINGTON LEI: I absolutely believe that there is a difference. You considered yourself gay at one point and now you say that you?re delivered. To me, the term delivered can be pretty ambiguous, depending on how you use it. The difference in saying, ?I?m attracted to the same sex, but I?m choosing not to act on my attraction? and not having an attraction at all is vastly different.
DONNIE McCLURKIN: Not at all. The bottom line is that it?s all the same. It?s by not choosing to act that the attraction and the appetite starts to abate and wane.
I?m a diabetic now and I don?t eat sugar, but it doesn?t mean that I don?t want sugar. The more I don?t eat the sugar, the more I lose the taste for sugar and the more my diet starts to change permanently ? I can?t stand a regular soda now because it?s too much sugar. So, the more I don?t intake the sugar, the more it leaves out of my desire.
Girl!
