E160: Are People Born Gay? w/Therapist Michael Gasparro
The Lila Rose Show
Lila Rose
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Are people “born gay”? What do science, psychology and the Church tell us about the origins of same-sex attractions? Is there hope for men and women who are struggling with unwanted same sex attractions? Today I sit down with Michael Gasparro, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. We discuss his personal journey with same-sex attraction and explore the insights and powerful healing stories he's gathered from supporting hundreds of clients. Plus, we discuss what parents can do to raise sexually healthy children. Join us for this important conversation!
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:03 - Welcome, Michael
00:02:46 - "Unwanted" Sexual Attraction
00:12:02 - "Conversion Therapy"?
00:17:00 - What is reintegrative therapy?
00:19:36 - How do same-sex attractions originate?
00:22:07 - How much of same-sex attraction is genetic?
00:29:31 - What are some other environmental factors?
00:33:19 - Early sexual exposure and abuse
00:37:16 - What is a “gay child”?
00:46:50 - EMDR is one method
00:49:38 - Define our terms - what is marriage?
00:53:58 - Gay Men and OCD
00:56:45 - Don't minimize spiritual healing
01:00:22 - Prevention is better than treatment
01:03:10 - Sex Education
01:07:54 - False vs True Compassion
01:13:39 - Should someone struggling w/ sexual addiction be in a relationship?
01:15:59 - Priests and same sex attractions?
01:19:01 - Sexual Fluidity is real
01:31:45 - Conclusion
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What really is conversion therapy and then kind of therapy that you do, which is reintegrative therapy? |
| 0:05.0 | I would dare people to consider conversion therapy is sort of a false flag. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a bit of a red herring. |
| 0:09.0 | How do you look at the origin of same-sex attraction? |
| 0:12.0 | Kind of elephant in the room, how much of this is nature? |
| 0:14.0 | We know it's a significantly smaller than majority percentage. |
| 0:18.0 | What are those environmental factors? I'm going to explain some that both relate to my own story, but also to the stories of |
| 0:23.4 | hundreds of other men and people I know and clients I've worked with. |
| 0:26.4 | And I'm going to share with you that the church has not been silent on this either. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | Today we're going to be sitting down with Michael Gaspero, who is a licensed |
| 0:37.6 | marriage and family therapist. He has an incredible personal story and he does some really |
| 0:41.8 | incredible work in Los Angeles. Quick content warning here. We're going to be talking about |
| 0:46.5 | some issues that might not be appropriate for younger audiences. So if you're a mom or dad or you're |
| 0:51.8 | in a car with young ones, there's that content warning for you. |
| 0:55.0 | This might be something to listen to when kids are not in the car. |
| 0:57.7 | It's not going to get graphic, but these are serious themes having to do with same-sex attraction |
| 1:01.5 | and other sexuality issues. |
| 1:03.3 | Michael Gasparo, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:05.1 | Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm really glad you're here. There's a lot to talk about with you. And let's start |
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