Former lesbian Debora Barr has
described gay relationships as “just a distortion of love.”
Barr is the author of All
Things New: A Former Lesbian's Lifelong Search For Love,
in which she claims that her attractions to women diminished after
joining a church.
Appearing on Steve Deace's radio
program last week, Barr suggested that gay relationships are an
attempt to repair broken parental relationships.
“It's no coincidence we have seen a
huge surge in homosexual behavior at the same time we've seen a
collapse of the family unit,” Deace said. “Because without those
traditional roles of a mom and a dad represented in a home and that
healthy balance that produces a healthy sexual identity in children,
which is collapsing in our culture in the last thirty, forty years,
that balance if that's not modeled and witnessed, it's going to
create confusion in young people, particularly if you throw in
anything like a betrayal or an abuse. Really, the surge in this
lifestyle is not just about propaganda from popular culture but it
really is about people that are literally trying to find meaning and
purpose in their life when they come from an environment growing up
that didn't offer them that.”
That is so, so true,” Barr responded
“I believe that a child's upbringing is so important and when they
don't get [what] they need – for me, my relationship with my mother
got broken at a critical stage in my development. I needed that
mother figure in my life and all of the sudden that relationship was
broken. So what I was trying to get from other women was that thing
that I needed, that piece of female – I don't even know how to
describe it.”
“The problem with that is two hurting
women can never get what they need from each other, the same as two
hurting men can never get what they need from each other; it's just a
distortion of love,” she added.