Faithful Responses to Same-Sex Attraction: A Guide for Men

by Kyle Martin

Many people who experience same-sex attraction seek a way to live their lives in harmony with traditional religious values. As you decide how to respond to same-sex attractions, you can make choices congruent with your personal values, faith, and religious beliefs. This book presents practical solutions that may help.

If you believe that same-sex romantic and sexual relationships do not fit within God’s plan for you, this book can help you explore questions and make life choices.

• What is same-sex attraction? Understand more deeply your emotional needs and sexual feelings. Consider issues common among men who experience same-sex attraction.
• How do you want to respond to your same-sex attractions? Learn how to strengthen self-understanding, explore sources of distress, reduce dissonance between values and desires, heal emotional wounds, build secure identity and relationships, control compulsive behaviors, and live congruently with your faith and values.
• How can family, friends, and church leaders help? Learn how others can support people who experience the complex issues of same-sex attraction.

If you experience same-sex attraction, you have options about how to live your life—including identity and sexual behavior. This book presents options and practical solutions that have been experienced by thousands of people in their lives.