Actually, I examined the NARTH site for statistics. They speak a great deal of “overcoming homosexuality” and “decreasing same sex attractions”. But they never mention an increase in opposite sex attraction. Sexual attraction, as I have mentioned is both measurable and consistent over time.
Here is a typical passage from an article on the NARTH website:
In contrast, the married man with a homosexual background may find conjugal relations to be less intense, but he is left with a sense of rightness, contentment and well-being. Rather than feeling depleted, he is renewed, feels satisfied and good about himself, and experiences himself as an integral part of the heterosexual world.
This seems to back up my idea that ex-gays trade sexual fulfillment for social acceptance. Another article on the site heralded this trade off by upholding ex-gays as less likely to cheat on their wives with other women. That article has since been pulled.
You might try researching things using both statistics from the homosexual advocate and non-advocate groups. You might just find that what you say is not true.
I agree that this subject warrants further investigation. But wouldn’t it be better to find unbiased research?
That people who have changed their way of homosexual thinking through God's strength are tuly active heterosexuals (or are the all telling fibs?).
If you have evidence to this I’d be very interested in seeing it. From what I’ve seen and read, ex-gay men do not experience an increase in attraction to women.
And of course we are to love all men (and women, which was implied). We are not to love and endorse sin.
No one’s saying you should. Nonetheless the evidence seems to suggest that while it is possible for homosexuals to change behavior, there is no know way to change sexual attraction. It would appear that homosexually orientated individuals have to walk a very hard path to gain the acceptance of their religious brethren.
Seems that that is exactly how one is supposed to feel after having sex with ones wife. These guys are now perfectly normal.
SAD is a mental disease that is curable through either secular or religious reparative therapy. SAD results in a choice to perform perverse behavior. There is no such thing as sexual orientation. There are only SAD and broken individuals desperately in need of being cured.
Why does the SAD community protest these poor souls who are trying to get well? Is it that if one can be cured then they all can be cured and the violent SADs would rather fight than admit their faults?
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"Religious brethren?" Uh-uh. Try "God" in that sentence.
Of course they don't! Once someone has overcome the deviancy, they are, by definition, normal.