Previously Ambrosino has written articles about his experiences being gay at Liberty University, an article on how opposing gay marriage doesn't make you a bigot, a piece suggesting that we shouldn't silence anti-equality celebrities and an MLK-Day column on how gay activists should try listening to and loving their enemies more.
Many LGBT bloggers have refuted Ambrosino's piece, including a comprehensive take-down by Evan Hurst at Truth Wins Out comparing Ambrosino's rhetoric to that of anti-gay advocates, a critique by John Aravosis suggesting that Ambrosino needs to get current with Martin Luther King's legacy, and Noah Michelson's at Gay Voices which says electroconvulsive therapy, exorcisms and “corrective rape" all stem from the idea that people can un-choose their sexual and gender identities.
However, the New Republic also ran a refutation piece by Gabriel Arana stating that most LGBT people do not feel like they have “chosen” their identities and that, "The idea that it's empowering to choose one's sexual orientation may have some allure, but in practice it's the very basis for much of the discrimination gays and lesbians face."
