Jozef Demjan
Jozef Demjan is a former gay living in Cinobaňa (Poltár district, Slovakia) who decided to quit homosexual lifestyle and later married Júlia after he changed to interpret his same-sex attractions. Their story had been featured nationwide in TV Markíza and spurred public debate over homosexual community.
Childhood experiences
Demjan was sexually abused as a child and maintains that this circumstance caused him to become a gay. During his period of active homosexual life style, he was involved in six relationships with other same-sex partners.
Conversion
When he began to be a believer in the Baptist Church, his attitudes towards homosexuality have gradually changed. At age of 21, he stopped meeting with other men for purpose of gay relationships and asked God to set him free from his addiction. Consequetly, he started to believe that “man and woman belong to each other” and now perceives the cohabitation of same-sex partners as something unnatural: „When a person wants to defend his behavior, he will do it, even though he knows the truth.“ [1]
References
- ↑ den (September 8, 2012). Manželia gay a opatrovateľka: Dva týždne v mesiaci je Jozef sám! (Gay and nurse married couple: Two weeks in a month is Josef alone!) (Slovak). Nový Čas. Retrieved on February 16, 2014. “Mladý Róm bol totiž gay a tvrdí, že viera v Boha mu pomohla stať sa heterosexuálom. Následne sa zaľúbil do Júlie (22), s ktorou sa oženil. ... “Verím, že sa už k mužom nevráti, inak by som si ho nevzala,“ povedala odhodlane mladomanželka Júlia. ... Jozefa ako dieťa sexuálne zneužil muž a práve to podľa neho spôsobilo, že sa stal gayom. S mužmi prežil šesť vzťahov. Až keď začal byť veriaci v Bratskej jednote baptistov, jeho postoj k homosexualite sa postupne menil. „Mal som 21 rokov, keď som sa prestal stretávať s mužmi, no nemal som ani vzťah so ženami. Prosil som Boha, aby ma oslobodil od mojich závislostí. On mi zmenil srdce a myslenie. Začal som veriť, že muž a žena patria k sebe,“ zdôraznil Jozef, ktorý spolužitie dvoch rovnakých pohlaví teraz vníma ako niečo neprirodzené. „Homosexualita je choroba, nejaká porucha. Keď si chce človek ospravedlniť veci, tak to urobí takto, aj keď vie pravdu,“”