{"id":51417,"date":"2013-12-15T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51417"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:10:01","slug":"what-causes-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51417","title":{"rendered":"What Causes Homosexuality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Therapist Mark E. Smith: &#8220;Every homosexual man I&#8217;ve known was abandoned by his father. You will not meet a homosexual man who was emotionally close with his father growing up. Every one I&#8217;ve known was enmeshed with a woman, be it grandma or mom or a whole house full of women, but they overly connect with them, and then during adolescence, because of these wounds and everyone is twisted up in everyone&#8217;s sexuality, the root cause is their childhood emotional wounds, and the little boys hunger for male love and they over-identify with the feminine. 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