Jeff Johnston felt a sexual attraction to other boys in adolescence and also found himself fascinated with pornography.
“I struggled with my identity — who am I, what does this mean about me if I have some of these feelings,” he said.
“I asked God to take it away, and that didn’t happen.”
An internal battle raged within Johnston’s young mind, body and spirit, as he fought to reconcile his Christian spirituality with his sexual desires.
Johnston said he fulfilled in adulthood what his heart was yearning for — to live as a heterosexual man — through professional counseling, pastoral counseling, prayer and involvement in his church.
“We didn’t focus on ‘Let’s make you not gay,’” he said. “There were counselors who said,…
