Posted on 02/04/2016 12:25:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
A leading American Jewish group promoting therapy it said could turn gays to heterosexuals was ordered shut in December by a New Jersey court, amid growing efforts in the U.S. to curb the generally discredited practice. But therapists with ties to the shuttered group say they have found a haven for their work in Israel.
Israel's Health Ministry advises against so-called "gay conversion" or "reparative" therapy, calling it scientifically dubious and potentially dangerous, but no law limits it. In Israel, practitioners say their services are in demand, mostly by Orthodox Jewish men trying to reduce their same-sex attractions so they can marry women and raise a traditional family according to their conservative religious values.
Clients also include Jewish teenagers from the U.S. and other countries who attend post-high school study programs at Orthodox seminaries in Israel. Half of all such students attend seminaries that require youth who admit to having homosexual feelings to see reparative therapy practitioners, according to the Yeshiva Inclusion Project, a group that counsels gay prospective students. ...
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So if somebody had the urge to copulate with animals, would treatment for that condition be considered “dubious and potentially dangerous”?
I think I can understand your view about AP. What I got from the article was something else. I got that there are quite a number of men in Israel ( where, like in USA and most of Europe, homosexuality is effectively allowed/decriminalized ) — men who are trying to defeat their homosexual inclinations so that they can raise normal families in accordance with Biblical moral teachings. This can’t be easy for them. I wish them every success. It’s wonderful to see there are homosexually-inclined men trying to get their lives “straightened out”. May God bless them—
The P.C. claim that anybody can re-engineer their gender but nobody can modify their sex drive, is so odd.
They mean they've successfully shouted down most of them. I'll bet their success rate is about as good as rehab for drug addicts, which is not very good, but liberals are all in favor of it anyway-as long as it's government paid rehab.
A leading American Jewish group promoting therapy it said could turn gays to heterosexuals was ordered shut in December by a New Jersey court, amid growing efforts in the U.S. to curb the generally discredited practice.
What it looks to me the AP is trying to pull is to make Israel look like the “evil hard-right” types that doggedly permit the “discredited” therapies of this kind to continue.
I take it there is a law in NJ against gay therapy. It's like having a law against treating cancer.
You’re probably correct about the AP.
Lotta gay men in Tel Aviv.
Israel is very gay-friendly. Look for future legislation against this.
Especially with the liberal media static stirring up this pot already.
So if somebody had the urge to copulate with animals, would treatment for that condition be considered “dubious and potentially dangerous�
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Geez, you’d almost think homos are afraid of God.
“calling it scientifically dubious and potentially dangerous’
IF IT’S SCIENTIFICALLY DUBIOUS, DO RESEARCH AND TEST ITS EFFICACY AND RISKS, IF ANY. DUH.
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