Posted on 04/20/2015 3:12:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
Last week Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., introduced a bill in Congress asking states to ban sexual orientation conversion therapy, often abbreviated as CT, for minors. California is one of two states that have prohibited licensed professionals from offering the practice, which includes efforts to change not only sexual orientation but also gender identity.
While the congressional bill is only a resolution—it encourages states to bar the practice rather than proposing the heavier lift of a federal ban—the idea that CT is dangerous and should be banned is gaining momentum ...
What do we actually know about the practice of CT and its impact on often vulnerable patients? First, the therapy has been discredited across the board by all reputable practitioners, researchers, and professional organizations with any knowledge of the practice. The American Psychological Association’s 2009 opus on the topic concludes that “there is insufficient evidence to support the use of psychological interventions to change sexual orientation” and warns against the harmful effects of trying. At least 10 major groups with knowledge of the issue, including the World Health Organization, echo this position ...
Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire, is the director of the What We Know Project at Columbia Law School.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
What a complete waste of time that was.
Spin, spin, spin, spin,...
Then the writer states, now lets look at the evidence. Three paragraphs later, lots more trashing of the therapy done, he spins into reports that sound more like fantasy than the claims of success were.
I have heard testimonies of people who said they were helped by this. Were they all lying?
I don’t honestly know what to make of the effort, but I do have a pretty good idea this article was not an objective review. It was pure propaganda.
If there is enlightenment on a subject, you don’t have to trash those who disagree with you before revealing the results.
You just reveal the results.
This article sought to create hatred for those who oppose homosexuality. Then it gave a flimsy review of ‘conversion thereapy’ success. Of course there isn’t any success if you believe this nut-job.
I don’t.
Most child molesters released from prison also re-offend. Just because the mental illness cannot be permanently cured doesn’t make it acceptable behavior. Smoking cessation also has a dismal success rate, but that isn’t a good reason to allow legislators to ban the attempts for those who wish to intervene and help their children.
If you attempt that in your own power, Satan will have you on the ground in about a millisecond.
Why stop there. What about all the other ‘born that way’ issues? Plenty believe criminal behavior is hereditary too.
If they ask Jesus into their life they can be changed.
The American Psychiatric Association, the The American Psychological Association, and the World Health Organization all have declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Not sure, but honestly, how different would this be from trying to "cure" someone of being a whore, or pornographer, or any other kind of pervert?
That means people quit calling it that. That doesn’t mean God quit calling it that.
It’s about as effective as any other type of psychotherapy.
haven’t you seen those funny comedic sketches where a gay guy tries to convert a straight guy. Hey! it’s no big deal!
I used to get hit on by gay guys in my cab pretty often. Didn’t ask if I was gay but WHAT WERE THE ODDS when only 2 percent of the population is.
They want everyone to think like the and think anyone is a potential queer.
THe APA was bullied and besieged by homosexual activists to change the DSM version in 1973 to say homosexuality was not a disorder.
I wonder why so many people thought “YMCA” (Village People version) was so cute. I had to sit through a playing of that thing in a restaurant yesterday. “Young man, young man” [come on and get gay with us too].
It’s high time that we call “Young man, young man, get straight”
Shouldn’t this be a private choice between doctor and patient?
Its worse than that. YMCA and In The Navy were Reagan Bashing songs. Reagan said let the YMCA help the poor and he was for the military in a big way.
Whip It by Devo was a very anti Reagan song. Whip it was Reagans way of dealing with thing. Just smash it. The video makes fun of cowboys and the like
homosexuals who have turned normal or raised by homosexuals have said it is a deviant lifestyle and unhealthy.
There is the proof . Homosexuals are no longer homosexuals.
Big Whoop! Of course they lied! They've long since been infiltrated by queers and faggots just like every other institution in the world...most notably the Catholic Church and many others.
Funny how they left GID standing as a mental disorder ain't it.
If the 17th Amendment had never been ratified then the Senate could probably be expected to protect the states by killing such a bill if the House actually introduced it.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Another poster compared it to alcohol, drug, or other therapy, and the success rates there.
That’s probably a pretty good comparison.
As with those other therapies, you have to want to get help.
That is probably the key here too.
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