I am on my husband's e-mail account, so if this isn't the right place I apologize... I'm new to this.

My son, Tyler (11), last year began displaying signs he may suffer from homosexuality.  We found him playing with barbies.  At first, we tried to simply correct this behavior.  Later, his asked  his friend Chad to be his boyfriend.

 We waited and waded through the muddy waters with our priest, and for a couple months of 40 hours of therapy a week.  We found a program called NARTH, who was willing to treat his homosexuality for the sickness it was, rather than playing the Devil's game and just pretending he can't help it.  

He has been out to a NARTH camp, to help him be more of a boy and stop acting like a girl.  We are worried, that when we allow him to come home, he will still be resistant to god's way.  My husband has tried strict discipline, and god help us...we even bought him adult magizines as recommended by his psychiatrist to help him aquire arousal for girls.

If he isn't better by time he gets home, our last resort is a family vacation my husband planned.  Our NARTH psychiatrist suggested we take him to have electro-shock therapy.  It is illegal to do in the US, for good reason.  It erases all of someone's memories, and makes them a blank slate.  I hate to do this to my son, but he's leaving us with little choice... better this than let him just burn in hell for all eternity.  He's my son and I love him...

I'm bringing multiple questions to you.  Have any of you ever been through this?  Are there any other alternatives than E.S.T.?  I don't wanna erase my little boy, but nothing godly has come out of that child  for a long time now.
What is a troll?
We have tried prayer, we pray as a family  many times a day.  If you are one of those progressive christians, who think the bible only says the things you want it to.. you can get lost.   This question is for real Christians, who follow unmodified Christianity.

Yea, well when we pray now.. he often fights us.  He has even said, "f*** god." I'm worried this process will work, and then just make him hate god.  The EST was my hope of finishing this off, and making my little boy into a god fearing man...

My priest is correct, and his preaching is in coordination with the bible.  I respect you progressive christians, you at least allow jesus in your heart... but don't tell me how to raise my son if it's against my religion.
Does any true Christians have anything constructive to say?

Troll troll is troll.

Please, PLEASE, don't do the electrical shock...The only way to fix this is through prayer...Electrical shock would show you don't trust God...

I'm sorry. I'm having a hard time believing you are real, and not a troll. I am familiar with NARTH, and doubt that either they would suggest the adult magazine, or the EST.  

Under no circumstances, do the EST.  But on the other hand, I think you are just playing us all anyways for a good laugh.

Ditch your church that's headed by a "priest" and join a
Bible-believing Church where you will find scriptural and practical answers to these problems.

a good leather belt and lots of prayer will help you to turn him around. if that doesn't work you need to get a good deprogramming intervention. if all fails then the boy is a total loss's and ya just need to drive him in to the city dump him at the buss station and tell him not to return to your home till he has found the lord again.

I am a Christian and feel that homosexuality is not necessarily evil.  I know what it says in the Bible, but it says a lot of things in the Bible that we have largely discounted as not being culturally relevant to the 21st Century.  Ask yourself which is the greater evil: that you let your son (who is after all only eleven!!) work out his sexuality for himself, or that you allow him to be tortured and abused (and I don't just mean physically I mean emotionally too).

Many little boys play with dolls, and form close friendships with other boys.  A lot of children experiment sexually, and this does not necessarily mean anything sinister.  If you say you love your son, please leave him alone and don't emotionally abuse him any more than you already done, you will cause irreparable damage if you do.

Here is some info from the British organisation, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Fellowship.

http://www.lgcm.org.uk/

I am a Jehovah's Witness and it is their belief that homosexual acts are a filthy and perverted practise, something detestable to Jehovah, whether practised by males or females.
The truth is that your son will only resist his homosexual desires if he has the willpower to do so.Even then he might find it difficult.
The following articles may be of help:

www.watchtower.org

If you aren't a troll then you are the one in need of a psychiatrist.

All I can say is wow! I don't think anything anyone says can help how you feel. If you take the argument nature versus nurture in your eyes you've done nothing wrong so how did you baby become homosexual?
My answer from experience is that it's how they develop in the womb and not to say that it's a malfunction or it's genetics gone hay-wry but it's nature....happens too most species along the way so why not homosapiens? Love others as you love yourself?

I'm a conservative, Bible-believing Christian who once even served on the Mission field . . . . so, . . . . I'm not some liberal who does not believe in, or care about the Bible.

Love your son.  God does.  

Whatever he is struggling with, feeling . . . he didn't "ask" to be that way.  

Long, long ago . . . in a galaxy that now seems far, far away, I used to say,  "I'd rather my daughters to be a drug addict, than gay . . . . because at least no one is going to tell her, drugs are ok, or that there is a drug-users parade . . . . "

Guess what?   My daughter is now a recovering drug addict . . . .

There are worse things than a son who is gay.

Even if you take the Biblical view that this is a sin, and wrong . . . . you need to remember that the Corinthian church had Christians who had that as part of their baggage.  

Read 1 Corin. 6:9-11    He lists all the sins that God will not accept, or tolerate . . . and then says, ". . .and such were some of YOU, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified . . . "

Straight Christians sometimes end up having sex out of marriage.  (Like, . . . 90%)   Does God forgive them?   Does he see fornication as "better" than homosexual sin?   God sets the rules, YES, but God also knows we are made of flesh and we all sin.   "The wages of sin is death but the FREE GIFT of God is eternal life."

Love your son.   God does.

Dan in Miami  

I am a church going christian and I am gay. I have a friend who is Mormon and did EST after her parents made her feel so terrible about her sexuality. She said that you can not imagine the pain it is like torture. Anyways it didn't "work" . She is scarred from it emotionally feels like her parents don't accept her. It was not a good thing. And she is still gay and in a wonderful relationship with her "wife".  And just something you might want to look into a little more....you don't have to take my word from it but the word that is translated from the original language of the bible to mean homosexual in english is actually pedophile literally translated so think about that before you go "abusing" your baby.  Good Luck and I will pray for you that GOD gives you wisdom what to do here.

get lost yourself you gay basher! Yet another damn kid fooling around Y!A.