Posted on 09/16/2007 10:13:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
In the first longitudinal, peer-reviewed, scientific study of its kind, researchers have concluded some homosexuals can change their "orientation" through religiously mediated guidance.
Researchers Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse released the results Thursday of a three-year study during an address at the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference.
Their conclusions contradict the claims of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, which contend such change in sexual orientation is impossible and attempting to pursue it likely will cause depression, anxiety or self-destructive behavior.
The new study concluded such changes do not cause psychological harm to the patient.
Nicholas A. Cummings, former American Psychological Association president, praised the research.
"This study has broken new ground in its adherence to objectivity and a scientific precision that can be replicated and expanded, and it opens new horizons for investigation," he said.
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This is encouraging. If gays can change, maybe that means that Mooslims can too. Maybe they can learn to resist their orientation to slaughter innocents and brutally oppress others, especially women.
The Red Chinese treated it successfully with electroshock therapy for years.
Inherently, no. But they are when they decide to affect our culture with theirs. When traditional families are snidely called "breeders" and the foundations our society that have endured for centuries are derided then yes, they are a danger to us. I have known and liked many gay people but it's the militant gay agenda I don't like.
Documented proof that Jesus Saves - including from the lifestyle of sin, self-destruction, and pain that is Homosexuality.
“People don’t choose to be gay.
I don’t have children and am unfamiliar with what is being taught.”
That is what they are being taught.
With no facts to back it up.
The gay activists, while vocal, are a tiny minority of the gay community. Most gays mind their own business.
Not true. Same-sex attracation is just as much a deformity as a broken leg. Sometimes a leg is broken intentionally. Sometimes messed up relationships lead to same-sex attraction.
Sure — and I just saw a pig fly over my house !
Of course this doesn’t pertain to Elton {I’m so Gay} John!
Respectfully, you could not be more wrong.
The APA’s liars; and God can change peole! Simple as that..
That's not very earth-shaking. Some of the subjects may not be telling the truth to the investigators or themselves, but it wouldn't be surprising if some people changed in orientation from homosexual to heterosexual or vice versa. Homosexuality isn't all one thing: there are people who've been that way for as long as they can remember and people who "experiment" with it, like college girls who are "lesbians until graduation."
Most gays are not radical and keep to themselves. They couldn’t care less about gay pride parades.
As for me, I’m straight, and I don’t watch TV shows or movies where the protagonist is gay. I believe in live and let live so I don’t need tolerance shoved in my face.
That is fine with me. I was in the interior design world and the show horse world and there are a lot of gays in both and many were talented and enjoyable people. What goes on with consenting adults is their business, not mine.
The activists may be a tiny minority, but they are having a devastating effect. They have pushed their notions of society on this country, and the world, ever since the Stonewall Riots, and the politicians, even mindful of getting elected, go along with their dictates, be it benefits for 'domestic partners', homosexual 'marriage', or the teaching of the 'gay agenda' in schools, even as early as Kindergarten.
Beginning in the early 80's, they used AIDS to create sympathy for themselves, even though it was clear that it was their own actions that brought that disease into their ranks. With this sympathy, they brought about the changes they wanted made, free from much opposition, because the media wouldn't brook any serious discussion on the matter, because to try to do so would be 'homophobic'. Most folks just kept their mouths shut, because they didn't want to be thought ill of by their co-workers, fellow churchgoers, or neighbors.
So that creates a situation in which, as happened in Lexington MA, when a father goes to a teacher and tells her he'd rather his Kindergarten son NOT have to listen to a book about two mommies, or two daddies, and respectfully asks that his son be allowed to go to the library or somewhere else, if that discussion is going to be held. He was arrested, and a restraining order placed on him so that he could not set foot on the school grounds, even for Parent's Night. He wasn't trying to force his beliefs on the school, or make the school change for him, he only wanted the school to accomodate his family's beliefs by exempting his son from discussions of homosexual relationships. The school wouldn't allow it.
HOLY MOLY! But you can't mention Jesus.... What was the charge against him...officially? What about freedom of speech? This is what we have to look forward to more of if Hillary - It takes a village - is elected.
I'm afraid that we live in a nation where rampant political correctness rules. There are too many sacred cows. This is not confined to homosexuality, as you know. :(
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