Should Therapy be about Politically Correct Agendas?

...Or should individuals be able to make their own decisions about whether they want to try to diminish their same-sex attraction? Reparative therapy has helped many people. How dare legislators and courts deny those with same-sex attraction the freedom to choose? Remember those famous words? How come the only choices liberals are willing to allow are choices to kill others or yourself?

Watch the video and visit voices-of-change.org.The stories are truly inspiring and filled with hope. Pray for those afflicted with SSA. Many have been greatly sinned against. When you read and listen to their stories of sexual abuse, some from pre-school days, it breaks your heart. Remember little Jacinta of Fatima whose tender heart reached out to "poor sinners." And think of Jesus on the cross saying, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do."

David Pickup "Reparative Therapy Saved My Life" from NARTH on Vimeo.

APA Past President Says the Research on Homosexuality Never Done

According to a past president of the APA (American Psychological Association), Nicholas Cummings, unbiased research on homosexuality was never done. In a recent interview, Cummings says he introduced the resolution that homosexuality is not a mental illness. Rather, it is "characterological." (Let me emphasize that. HOMOSEXUALITY IS A CHARACTER-BASED DISORDER.) Removing it from the mental health column didn't mean homosexuality was normal, but the homosexual activists used the APA to play "let's pretend." At the time the resolution passed Cummings said they also resolved to continue research and report on whatever the research demonstrated. However, Cummings says, "unbiased open research was never done." At the time, the Leona Tyler principle was in effect which required that psychology professionals base any advocacy on demonstrable scientific research and proven experience. Dr. Cummings says that, as the APA became more political in the late 1980s and '90s, the Leona Tyler principle, which was "never withdrawn" simply disappeared. (In 2007 NARTH's governing board adopted the Leona Tyler principle.)

Intolerance Trumps Truth Among Gay Activists

Tolerance may be the mantra of the homosexual movement, but intolerance is their M.O. And we're talking intolerance at the highest level of psychiatry. Any psychiatrist or professional group that refuses to support the biased view that homosexuality is normal and sexual orientation is unchangeable is targeted.

One of the latest battlegrounds is The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). They recently considered a motion to deny membership to professionals and professional groups (like the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality - NARTH) that practice Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE). They also want to define change therapy as "unethical" even when patients seek to be cured of their disordered attraction. (See more here...)

It doesn't look like CAMFT is in a hurry to carry out the gays' demands - too much potential for lawsuits. But what if they do? What impact will that have on patients? A gay man who was molested as a child, who hates being attracted to other men (Yes, there are homosexuals who fit that description.), goes to a therapist for help. But the only "help" the therapist is ethically allowed to give in the politically correct world of gay propaganda is to convince the man his inclination is "normal" and helping him be "comfortable" with it. That is what's unethical! For decades prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. Only after lobbying by gay activists and faux science did the APA and other professional groups cave in and declare homosexuality normal. They did the same thing with abortion. These professional organizations continue to move toward ever more extreme positions, for example, that sado-masochism is normal as well.

A few therapists and researchers are standing for sanity. Pray for them and for organizations like NARTH that are under serious attack for refusing to trade the politically incorrect truth for the politically correct lie.

For more see the links below:

NARTH Report Shows Gay Activist Influence on Mental Health Organizations: Says society that promotes homosexuality results in more self-identified homosexuals

NARTH Summary of a Newly Published Study on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

The APA's Pro-Gay River of Denial

Liberals Have ‘Hijacked' Psychiatrists

The A.P.A. Normalization of Homosexuality, and the Research Study of Irving Bieber

The dark, intolerant, and abusive nature of the gay agenda

Sunday Thanksgiving!

Some good news for your Sunday praise time:

A Utah court has upheld the right of a mother who left her lesbian partner because of the detrimental impact on her two-year old son. Her former partner sued for parental rights even though she has no biological connection to the boy. The child's mom converted to Christianity and has since married. Praise God and pray that the lesbian partner hears the good news and converts from her immoral lifestyle as well. God can free anyone from the chains of sin whether it's: sexual addiction, drug addiction, pornography, alcoholism, etc. No sin is too big for God if someone truly repents and wants to be freed. That doesn't mean it's easy or that a person won't fall, but Jesus taught us the answer to that: get up, pick up your cross, and follow in His footsteps.

(Thanks, Janet, for the heads up!)