In a letter to her professional body, Lord Carey - along with a number of senior figures - suggests Mrs Pilkington is herself a victim of entrapment whose therapy should be supported. His comments - in a letter co-signed by, among others, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester and the Rt Rev Wallace Benn, the Bishop of Lewes - will cause controversy in the gay community and beyond.

I am a 37-year-old Catholic woman who has been happily married for nearly 15 years. We have five children that I homeschool. I also struggle daily with same-sex attraction.

Most gays and lesbians will tell you they "knew" they were homosexual from a young age. I didn't. I had the usual crushes on boys growing up and like most heterosexual women, envisoned myself getting married and having children with a great man.

All of its subjects are seeing the world through the prism of the Anglican/Episcopalian church and their relationships with God and the church are never in doubt. In that respect, "Love Free or Die Hard" has a conservative streak that should disarm many dissenters. Robinson and his partner (and later, when New Hampshire law allowed, husband) Mark Andrew live as traditional a domestic life as one could imagine.

His Daughter Alone

Of my four children, my daughter alone is the one I adopted. I never exactly forget the fact; it simply passes out of conscious thought since it does not matter, for she is, in every way that counts, my daughter, my first child. Over the years, I have always felt what a father ought to feel.