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如果说在世俗社会中同性恋已经被视为异类
那么在宗教背景之下的同性恋者就更加难以正视自己的天性
—— 一个英国人从刻意"治愈"到接受自己的历程...
Hints:
Danish
President Obama
Jeremy Marks
Outlook
Dr. Kildare
Richard Chamberlain
主持：haifaforever
校对：早安Miki
翻译&注释：haifaforever
答疑：(*/ω＼*)Ve酱好爱ever做主持But first, the relationship between the Christian church and homosexuality is controversial. The Danish parliament has just passed a law allowing gay couples to take part in full marriage services in church, but polls suggested that up to half of the priests in the main Danish church will refuse to carry out the ceremony. In America, President Obama has attracted the anger of evangelical Christians by announcing his support for gay marriage, and the issue is causing political tension in the UK.  
Well, Jeremy Marks is a British committed Christian. He's spent a lifetime struggling to come to terms with the fact that he is gay. As a young man, he believed his feelings towards men were sinful and unnatural. He even travelled to America to take part in a programme to "cure" him of his homosexuality. When he returned to the UK, he set up and ran his own programme, which attempted to help other gay people to become straight. But Jeremy's now decided that his attempts to convert himself and others were a huge mistake. He started working to help gay Christians accept themselves for who they are. When he came into the Outlook studio, he told me he first realised he was attracted to men when he was a teenager.
"One of the things that alerted me to the fact that I was gay was watching a programme on TV called Dr. Kildare with Richard Chamberlain, who was a rather gorgeous-looking young doctor in the series, and then that certainly stirred me up. I then felt dreadfully guilty."不过首先还是让我们来关注基督教会和同性恋之间备受争议的关系。丹麦议会刚刚通过一项法律，允许同性恋夫妇在教堂里举行全套婚礼仪式，但各项调查的结果表明，在丹麦主要教堂中有多达半数的神父都会拒绝为同性恋夫妇主持婚礼。在美国，奥巴马总统公开宣称自己支持同性恋婚姻，激起了福音派基督徒的怒火。在英国这个问题也正在造成政治上的紧张气氛。  
杰瑞米·马克思是一位忠诚的英国基督教徒。他这一辈子都为如何接受自己是同性恋的事实痛苦挣扎。年轻的时候，他认为自己对男人的感情充满罪恶、背离常态。他甚至还远赴美国，去参加一个项目以“治愈”自己的同性恋倾向。之后他回到英国，创立并经营自己的“治愈”项目，想要帮助其他同性恋变成异性恋。但现在，杰瑞米已经认定，想要转变自己和别人的性倾向是个巨大的错误。他开始致力于帮助同性恋基督徒们接受自己的本来面貌。当他来到《展望》节目的播音室时，他告诉我他第一次意识到自己会被男人吸引的时候还是个少年。
“当时有些迹象让我留意到自己是个同性恋，其中之一是看到一档叫《基尔代尔医生》的电视剧，主演是理查德·钱柏林，他在剧中饰演一位帅呆了的年轻医生。这些迹象当然令我心里翻江倒海，于是我就有了极度的负罪感。”