[JoeProBono]

[Westbrook]

Maybe BMC Psychiatry should be suggesting that they stop helping addicts and alcoholics overcome their addictions.

After all, they’re just born that way.

[Alex Murphy]

A significant minority of mental health professionals had agreed to help at least one patient "reduce" their gay or lesbian feelings when asked to do so.

Heterosexuals - just like homosexuals - already have professionally-designed, built-in treatment centers located in their homes and apartments. They're called cold showers.

[Dr. Sivana]

Therapists are still offering treatments for homosexuality despite there being no evidence that such methods work, research suggests.

[ . . . ] They point to work by Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist who lobbied for the removal of homosexuality from APA's list of mental illnesses but went on to suggest in a controversial 2001 study that therapy could bring about change in sexual orientation.

These two statements from the same article contradict each other. One may not agree with Spitzer's study, but the mere fact that it exists, and has caused controversy, shows that some qualified people believe that there is evidence that "such metods work."

[Mind Freed]

Good luck doctors. You know what they say though... You can’t fix stupid.

[Tax-chick]

despite there being no evidence that such methods work

Falsehood. There is evidence. It's not conclusive, or universally applicable, or undisputed, but there is evidence.

[theFIRMbss]

>despite there being no evidence that such methods work

Is there "evidence"
therapists cure anything?
If I remember,

all studies have shown
people who do therapy
show improvement at

the exact same rates
as people who don't do it.
It seems like the key

to "getting better"
is just making an effort
at getting better.

[End Times Sentinel]

I will never, for the life of me, understand how a man can be attracted to another man.

It’s God’s Greatest Earthly Miracle that women are attracted to us. It’s some source of wonder, but I try not to question it too much.

I can understand what lesbians theoretically are attracted to, but since most of ‘em look like guys anyway, that’s usually a mental illness too.

But for a guy... to have the choice of a soft, curvy, warm, sweet smelling, pretty woman, and chose some hard, knotty, hairy, sweaty, smelly guy with his organs on the outside, that’s just insanity.

That someone could make that choice throws my understanding of the world upside down.

It is an abomination in God’s Eyes and a personal affront to everything I believe.

[mainestategop]

Pretty soon, they are going to start treating heterosexuality as a mental illness.

[scripter]

Let alone the thousands who have left the gay lifestyle, three very well known leaders in the gay community have left the lifestyle:

Michael Glatze ‘Comes Out’ of Homosexuality: former ‘Young Gay America’ Magazine Co-founder
Venus Magazine
The Ex-Gay Story in the Pop Music World

The number of ex-gays continues to grow. For more information, checkout NARTH.

[Ol' Sparky]

There is NO proof or credible evidence homosexuality is genetic. But, there are thousands of former homosexuals and research by Masters and Johnson and others showing homosexuals can change.