Biography
Cohen has described a troublesome childhood and abusive home life that he purports to be the cause of his homosexuality later in life.
While attending Boston University he became an evangelical Christian and later joined the Unification Church, where he said, he remained celibate for long periods. The Unification Church rejects homosexual behavior. In 1982 Cohen married Jae Sook, a South Korean woman suggested to him by church leader Sun Myung Moon. Cohen says that during the first three years of his marriage he spent time "running around" with a boyfriend in New York. Cohen describes this time as a period of turmoil that led him to pursue healing from his past.
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