Posted on 03/31/2023 6:55:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
Father Paul Sullins challenges what he calls the flawed methodology used in studies that prompted calls for a global ban on ‘sexual orientation change efforts.’
Over the past two decades, as Americans who identify as “gay” and “lesbian” secured social acceptance, expanded legal protections and marriage rights, an acrimonious parallel debate has sprung up over claims that so-called “conversion therapy” for people dealing with unwanted same-sex attraction is unethical, harmful and should be prohibited.
The American Psychological Association (APA) and leading medical organizations have condemned “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy” — described in academic literature as “sexual orientation change efforts” or SOCE — citing research linking the practice to higher rates of suicidality for people who undergo treatment to remove or mitigate homosexual feelings. These studies have bolstered attacks on the practice by “LGBT” activists who say such efforts are coercive and motivated by “hate.” Last year, President Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to prevent federally funded programs from offering conversion therapy.
Father Paul Sullins, a professor of sociological research at The Catholic University of America, has studied the most recent, widely cited research supporting the claims against conversion therapy. In a 2022 paper, “Sexual Orientation Change Efforts Do Not Increase Suicide: Correcting a False Research Narrative,” he challenged the methodology employed in the influential studies that prompted calls for a global ban on SOCE, and his findings have prompted pushback, as well as debate.
During an interview with Register senior editor Joan Frawley Desmond, Father Sullins explained why the studies’ methodology was flawed. He also discussed the “monoculture” within the academy that has allowed poorly executed peer-reviewed studies to go largely unchallenged.
Likewise, he pointed to signs of hope that encourage researchers like him to continue to provide strong, evidence-based research evaluating these treatments.......
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If a person is sexually attracted to farm animals, are efforts to cure that person motivated by hate?
The truth shall set you free.
Tell the truth.
Excellent article worth reading.
What’s absurd is that American’s believe literally EVERYTHING about the person is mutable.
If you’re fat, you can do a program to become thin. If you drink too much, there are therapies to stop, if you are shy, you can become gregarious, and many Americans believe if you are a man, you can become a woman.
But if you are sexually attracted to the same sex, there’s NOTHING you can do about it! Its even illegal to try!
Anything that supports any notion of normality, health, or functionality, is inherently hateful and must be exterminated with extreme prejudice, not to mention rage.
If you stop and think about it, rehab is a form of conversion therapy.
Are they going to ban that next?
How frustrating. I think that if someone is attracted to their own sex but doesn’t wish to be, they should be able to seek a therapist to help them navigate their way away from it. Aversion therapy is unethical in my opinion, but talk therapy (which is surprisingly effective) is fair game.
A warm, compassionate, masculine male counselor can do so much good with males who have had absent or horrible fathers and have fallen into gender dysphoria or are trying to fill their father needs with compulsion.
The left know it deep down so they are filled with hatred for healers because they want everyone to be as wounded, miserable and as sick as they are.
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