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'Groundbreaking' study shows 'gays' can change
WorldNetDaily ^ | 9/15/07 | WorldNetDaily

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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More news that the left will smear and bury.
1 posted on 09/16/2007 10:13:38 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 09/16/2007 10:14:06 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
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.

That is very encouraging news.

3 posted on 09/16/2007 10:16:26 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: wagglebee
Why would we need a "study" to tell us what is obvious, that people can change their behavior?

Engaging in homosexual acts is a type of behavior. If one doesn't engage in homosexual acts, it makes little sense to call them a "homosexual".

People who insist that homosexuals "can't change" seem to be calling homosexuals animals, who are not capable of changing their behavior.

4 posted on 09/16/2007 10:17:08 AM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: wagglebee

OK,gays can change.But why would you WANT to change,honey?
Seriously,it seems to me that most gays are pretty happy with their situation,incredible as it is to me that one would want to wake up in the morning staring at a pair of hairy testacles!
Even with all this pushing of the gay agenda in the schools,very few kids are going to bend over for Billy unless they were going to do it anyway.The whole thought is just too plain disgusting to contemplate.


5 posted on 09/16/2007 10:18:32 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: wagglebee
This, with all due respect, is meaningless.

What difference does it make how a homosexual compulsion originates? The basis for antipathy to homosexual behavior is that it is clearly and explicitly forbidden by scripture and tradition.

For that source of authority, how the behavior comes about is of no importance.

I am "oriented" towards adultery. That I do not act on my orientation is a choice, one which is usually easy but, as all men know, is not always easy.

Because God made me to desire beautiful women, and because eradicating that desire with some type of "therapy" seems Orwellian and bizarre, I suppose I just have to live with it.

Why is this different from what homosexuals must do?

6 posted on 09/16/2007 10:20:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: wagglebee

There is no need to fear the so-called homosexual agenda. Homosexuals are not a danger to us.


7 posted on 09/16/2007 10:30:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: wagglebee

What about RINO’s?


8 posted on 09/16/2007 10:31:42 AM PDT by 359Henrie (We need Gen. Curtis Le May, Liberals give us Gen. Wesley Clark.)
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To: Jim Noble

I’m with you. This whole thing is a waste of time.


9 posted on 09/16/2007 10:32:10 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Jim Noble

I’m just glad to see that both sides can make s—t up. It’s not fair when only one group does it.


10 posted on 09/16/2007 10:34:49 AM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: wagglebee

If you want your data taken seriously you shouldn’t announce it in the World Nut Daily.

Is it posted in the chemtrails section?


11 posted on 09/16/2007 10:34:57 AM PDT by Seruzawa (Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
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To: EveningStar; TigersEye
I don’t care if someone wants to be gay...thats their choice. What I do care about is the fact they push their gay agenda into schools. Telling our children in 2nd grade and up just what a family is & that its ok to be gay etc. IMO its not ok to do that to young children. They don’t need to hear it at young ages.
12 posted on 09/16/2007 10:36:26 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: wagglebee

I World Net Daily credible now? I can’t keep up.


13 posted on 09/16/2007 10:37:11 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Seruzawa; wagglebee
If you want your data taken seriously you shouldn’t announce it in the World Nut Daily.

That's another good point. WingNutDaily and NewsHacks are questionable news sources to say the least.

14 posted on 09/16/2007 10:38:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: pandoraou812

People don’t choose to be gay.

I don’t have children and am unfamiliar with what is being taught.


15 posted on 09/16/2007 10:41:05 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar; napscoordinator; Seruzawa

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070913/pl_usnw/truth_wins_out_urges_skepticism_of_new__ex_gay__sham_study_released_today_by_right_wing_therapists
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070915/29318_Ex-Gay_Study:_’Conversion’_is_Possible.htm
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=26429
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/controversial.study.is.change.possible.for.homosexuals/13089.htm


16 posted on 09/16/2007 10:42:22 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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"'Groundbreaking' study shows 'gays' can change"

Let me know when the change occurs. If it can be proven that a change, did indeed occur, perhaps we can talk.

17 posted on 09/16/2007 10:52:16 AM PDT by davisfh
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To: EveningStar

“Homosexuals are not a danger to us.”

They certainly are, when they use their sexual orientation as a basis for political change. They certainly are, when they break down the barriers of appropriate sexual behavior and encourage an “if it feels good, do it” mentality. They certainly are, when they spread serious and fatal illnesses. They certainly are, when they try to infiltrate churches, schools, and society at large with a “homosexual is fine” attitude. They certainly are when they post pornography, or behave pornographically, in public. I used to live in SF. I had to sit with my kids in bus shelters with ridiculous “ads” ten feet tall in our faces.


18 posted on 09/16/2007 10:52:35 AM PDT by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: EveningStar
Ww have a group in NJ called the Garden State Equality Group. They are behind many of the movies like Thats A Family & Its Ok To Be Gay. They are a very powerful group. IMO its just NOT the time to be telling children about these issues in grade school. Of course by middle school children are pretty smart so if they want to show them these movies then its different. I don't need anyone telling my 7 yr daughter that Billy has 2 daddy's or Mary has 2 mommies. She really doesn't need to know & anyway I should be the one telling her. So I have issues with the schools too.

I remember gays in school and nobody had to flaunt it as the teens seem to do now. I have children from 29 yrs old to 7 yrs old & it seems each year I get more amazed at what I see. I feel bad for the ones who are teased but I also wonder why all this has to be brought into the schools.

My youngest son was harassed in his senior year by a gay guy who kept commenting about how nice his rear end was. My son didn't like it at all and he shouldn't have had to be harassed. The school did nothing about it. The gay kid knew darn well my son had a steady girlfriend and is not in the least gay but he just kept it up. When he patted his rear that was it for my son. He punched him & got suspended. My point is that if these gays don't want to get hurt they need to keep their gay-ness to themselves or people like themselves and out of the schools.

19 posted on 09/16/2007 11:02:48 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: Marie2

Thanks for explaining it so well. ~P~


20 posted on 09/16/2007 11:10:16 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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