Promoting the belief that people are "born gay" and cannot change is crucial to the homosexual agenda of equating sexual orientation with race and the identification of homosexual conduct with the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for them, facts--like the existence of thousands of "ex-gays"--are stubborn things. Politically correct attacks on the ex-gay movement continued yesterday with the American Psychological Association's adoption of a resolution discouraging what they call "sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE)."This led to a predictable round of headlines today saying things like "Gay Therapies Unsound" and "Psychologists Reject Gay Therapy." The APA's actual scientific findings were much more modest, however, declaring, "There are no studies of adequate scientific rigor to conclude whether or not recent SOCE do or do not work" [emphasis added]. Ironically, it is largely the pro-homosexual forces in the APA which have prevented "studies of adequate scientific rigor" to make more definitive conclusions. Claims that such therapy is actually harmful, meanwhile, are supported by only anecdotal rather than scientific evidence.
Yesterday's report could have been worse, since some homosexual activists want sexual reorientation therapy to be flatly declared unethical--something the APA declined to do. Instead, the APA should re-affirm the profession's traditional ethical commitment to letting every client, including those unhappy with their homosexuality, set their own goals for therapy. The Left's growing problem with professional ethics and valid medical standards continues to grow.
