WaPo: “If people didn’t want to be gay, he thought, God could transform them. Danny had read accounts of conversion therapy, and he believed that it could work.
But by 2014 he’d begun to notice that it hadn’t worked for any of the gay people he actually knew. One afternoon he went out for coffee with a parishioner, Cara, who had recently come out to him, and who had tried seeing an “ex-lesbian” therapist to see whether she too could alter her sexuality. At the cafe, Cara pointed to a man sitting nearby, and she asked Danny to consider something: Was there anything that Cara could say or do — or any treatment she could suggest — that would make Danny fall in love with that man? If sexuality could truly be changed, could Danny change his?
It was a lightbulb moment, and it launched Danny on a journey — one that had nothing to do with sexuality, actually, and everything to do with love.”