The cover of Bob Bergeron's unpublished book.
Author Unknown
April 22, 2012
A fascinating and surprising story published in the New York Times, laying bare what many homosexual activists will never admit publicly. It reports the real-life tragedy of a typical homosexual man who sees and lives life based on the superficiality of homosexuality. How you look, what you wear and your “positive” attitude about yourself as a homosexual was the false recipe he sold to countless other gay men, but somehow knew that it wasn’t the truth.
On Jan 1st, Bob Bergeron, a quintessentially positive gay man, committed suicide. He left his friends, past sex partners and acquaintances wondering why. But they are blind to the real issue. The obsession with youth, beauty and sex is a killer. In a suicide note, he summed up the homosexual lifestyle in a single damning sentence:
“It’s a lie based on bad information.” he wrote. Ironically, the New York Times posted the article “The life and death of Bob Bergeron” in the “fashion and style” section (full article HERE).
Bob Bergeron was so relentlessly cheery that people sometimes found it off-putting. If you ran into him at the David Barton Gym on West 23rd Street, where he worked out nearly every morning at 7, and you complained about the rain, he would smile and say you’d be better off focusing on a problem you could fix.
That’s how Mr. Bergeron was as a therapist as well, always upbeat, somewhat less focused on getting to the root of his clients’ feelings than altering behavior patterns that were detrimental to them: therapy from the outside-in.
Over the last decade, he built a thriving private practice, treating well-to-do gay men for everything from anxiety to coping with H.I.V. Mr. Bergeron had also begun work as a motivational speaker, giving talks at gay and lesbian centers in Los Angeles and Chicago. In February, Magnus Books, a publisher specializing in gay literature, was scheduled to print a self-help guide he had written, “The Right Side of Forty: The Complete Guide to Happiness for Gay Men at Midlife and Beyond.”
“I’ve got a concise picture of what being over 40 is about and it’s a great perspective filled with happiness, feeling sexy, possessing comfort relating to other men and taking good care of ourselves,” Mr. Bergeron said on his Web site. “This picture will get you results that flourish long-term.”
But right around New Year’s Eve, something went horribly wrong. On Jan. 5, Mr. Bergeron was found dead in his apartment, the result of a suicide that has left his family, his friends and his clients shocked and heartbroken as they attempt to figure out how he could have been so helpful to others and so unable to find help himself.
Bergeron had everything right. All the right answers. Or so he thought. But sadly, he realized his life was built on a lie. Homosexual culture is all about the outward appearance and sexual lust. Many of them are deathly afraid because they know that once you lose your youthful look, you will become the dirty old hunter instead of the desirable young hunted.
“Bob was a very beautiful younger man, and we talked a lot about how that shapes and creates a life. The thesis of his book is based very much on his own personal experience with that. And the book also emphasized what to do when you’re not attractive or you no longer have the appeal you once had. The idea was to transcend that and expand your sexual possibilities.”
The scriptures do not lie.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (Romans 1)
Living a photoshopped lie
April 22, 2012
A fascinating and surprising story published in the New York Times, laying bare what many homosexual activists will never admit publicly. It reports the real-life tragedy of a typical homosexual man who sees and lives life based on the superficiality of homosexuality. How you look, what you wear and your “positive” attitude about yourself as a homosexual was the false recipe he sold to countless other gay men, but somehow knew that it wasn’t the truth.
On Jan 1st, Bob Bergeron, a quintessentially positive gay man, committed suicide. He left his friends, past sex partners and acquaintances wondering why. But they are blind to the real issue. The obsession with youth, beauty and sex is a killer. In a suicide note, he summed up the homosexual lifestyle in a single damning sentence:
“It’s a lie based on bad information.” he wrote. Ironically, the New York Times posted the article “The life and death of Bob Bergeron” in the “fashion and style” section (full article HERE).
Bob Bergeron was so relentlessly cheery that people sometimes found it off-putting. If you ran into him at the David Barton Gym on West 23rd Street, where he worked out nearly every morning at 7, and you complained about the rain, he would smile and say you’d be better off focusing on a problem you could fix.
That’s how Mr. Bergeron was as a therapist as well, always upbeat, somewhat less focused on getting to the root of his clients’ feelings than altering behavior patterns that were detrimental to them: therapy from the outside-in.
Over the last decade, he built a thriving private practice, treating well-to-do gay men for everything from anxiety to coping with H.I.V. Mr. Bergeron had also begun work as a motivational speaker, giving talks at gay and lesbian centers in Los Angeles and Chicago. In February, Magnus Books, a publisher specializing in gay literature, was scheduled to print a self-help guide he had written, “The Right Side of Forty: The Complete Guide to Happiness for Gay Men at Midlife and Beyond.”
“I’ve got a concise picture of what being over 40 is about and it’s a great perspective filled with happiness, feeling sexy, possessing comfort relating to other men and taking good care of ourselves,” Mr. Bergeron said on his Web site. “This picture will get you results that flourish long-term.”
But right around New Year’s Eve, something went horribly wrong. On Jan. 5, Mr. Bergeron was found dead in his apartment, the result of a suicide that has left his family, his friends and his clients shocked and heartbroken as they attempt to figure out how he could have been so helpful to others and so unable to find help himself.
Bergeron had everything right. All the right answers. Or so he thought. But sadly, he realized his life was built on a lie. Homosexual culture is all about the outward appearance and sexual lust. Many of them are deathly afraid because they know that once you lose your youthful look, you will become the dirty old hunter instead of the desirable young hunted.
“Bob was a very beautiful younger man, and we talked a lot about how that shapes and creates a life. The thesis of his book is based very much on his own personal experience with that. And the book also emphasized what to do when you’re not attractive or you no longer have the appeal you once had. The idea was to transcend that and expand your sexual possibilities.”
The scriptures do not lie.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (Romans 1)
Living a photoshopped lie
Instead of embracing God’s truth and finding life like these men and women, gay activists and their allies continue fighting the truth about homosexuality in order to maintain a fatally flawed charade of happiness, success, equality, superiority and normalcy. The media aids the lie by publishing a glut of pictures depicting only happy, smiling, healthy homosexuals.
They rush like wild animals to beat down anyone who dares tell the truth. Even if it’s one of their own. They’ve even enlisted a social prostitute to help them fight the truth that somehow just keeps breaking through, no matter what they do to suppress it. But deep down inside, like Bergeron, they know they are living lies that will come to no good end.
The insatiable lust for something new is part and parcel of the homosexual lifestyle. The harsh reality of it all crept up on Bergeron after he finished writing his how to be gay and happy book. In fact, the gay literature market is glutted with how to be a happy, well-adjusted homosexual self-help books. The desperation to be one is palpable. These books are a dime a dozen that’s why the publisher would only give Bergeron a few thousand dollars for his.
As the New Year approached, Mr. Bergeron seemed to grow more anxious.
With the book about to be printed, Mr. Bergeron became convinced that he’d written too much about the shame and isolation involved with hooking up online; that people weren’t even really doing that anymore, now that phone apps like Grindr and Scruff had come along. His book, he felt, had become antiquated before it even came out.
It’s tragic that Bergeron was lied to, spread the lie, and became a victim of the lie. It doesn’t get better without Jesus Christ changing your life. Humanism and self-help are powerless against the deteriorating effects of sin.
They rush like wild animals to beat down anyone who dares tell the truth. Even if it’s one of their own. They’ve even enlisted a social prostitute to help them fight the truth that somehow just keeps breaking through, no matter what they do to suppress it. But deep down inside, like Bergeron, they know they are living lies that will come to no good end.
The insatiable lust for something new is part and parcel of the homosexual lifestyle. The harsh reality of it all crept up on Bergeron after he finished writing his how to be gay and happy book. In fact, the gay literature market is glutted with how to be a happy, well-adjusted homosexual self-help books. The desperation to be one is palpable. These books are a dime a dozen that’s why the publisher would only give Bergeron a few thousand dollars for his.
As the New Year approached, Mr. Bergeron seemed to grow more anxious.
With the book about to be printed, Mr. Bergeron became convinced that he’d written too much about the shame and isolation involved with hooking up online; that people weren’t even really doing that anymore, now that phone apps like Grindr and Scruff had come along. His book, he felt, had become antiquated before it even came out.
It’s tragic that Bergeron was lied to, spread the lie, and became a victim of the lie. It doesn’t get better without Jesus Christ changing your life. Humanism and self-help are powerless against the deteriorating effects of sin.