Major Study: Changing Sexual Orientation Is Possible

Major Study: Changing Sexual Orientation Is Possible

WHEATON, Illinois, September 29, 2011 - Therapists who favor normalizing homosexuality say that it is impossible to change sexual orientation, and that the attempt to change is inherently harmful.

However, the final results of a long-term study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy has joined hundreds of other studies in concluding that such therapy is both possible and potentially well-indicated for many individuals.

Of the original 98 subjects, 61 were successfully categorized for general outcome at the last assessment.

Fifty-three percent were categorized as successful outcomes; specifically, 23 percent reported success in the form of an essential change to heterosexual orientation and functioning, while an additional 30 percent reported no longer identifying as homosexual while maintaining stable behavioral chastity.

At the six-year mark, 20 percent reported fully embracing a gay self-identification.

Meanwhile, the authors say the measure of psychological distress did not, on average, reflect increases in psychological distress associated with the attempt to change.

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holyrope 3

Oct 2, 2011

Homosexualty, transgender...all this Gender Identification Disorder is the fruit of the devil. Period! Love the sinner, pray for them, HATE THE SIN!

This is why children NEED to grow up in the faith, with Mother and Father!
And all sacraments must be conferred rightly...I remember reading something where John Paul II had certain priests RE-Baptize those that had already been baptized, but it …More

Homosexualty, transgender...all this Gender Identification Disorder is the fruit of the devil. Period! Love the sinner, pray for them, HATE THE SIN!

This is why children NEED to grow up in the faith, with Mother and Father!

And all sacraments must be conferred rightly...I remember reading something where John Paul II had certain priests RE-Baptize those that had already been baptized, but it was not according to the rubrics. This is dangerous, and Fr. Gabrielle Amorth talks about that in his book.

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Michel-René Landry

Oct 2, 2011

I rather be put in jail by speaking the truthe and the reality and even put to death. It will be for a good cause.

Temperance

Oct 2, 2011

Too bad the major media doesn't show this. There is coming a time where you will be jailed for speaking against homosexuality. There are parts in NY city now that if I say anything I could be killed. Practicing homosexuals are very aggressive in pushing their sodomy practices!

Knights4Christ

Oct 1, 2011

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD AND WITH HIS GRACE ANY PERSON CAN CHANGE BUT THEY NEED DENY THEMSELF master themself and have auto-control to become free from the sin of the SLAVARY OF SODOMY
cause the sin of Sodomy is a TYPE OF IDOLATRY THEY NEED A REAL CONVERTION
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed their sinful nature to his cross. They don't want what their sinful nature loves and longs for. Gal 5:24
because the

Saint Bernardine of Siena, a Franciscan preacher of the fifteenth century, makes an accurate psychological analysis of the consequences of the homosexual vice. The illustrious Franciscan wrote: “No sin has greater power over the soul than the one of cursed sodomy, which was always detested by all those who lived according to God….. Such passion for undue forms borders on madness. This vice disturbs the intellect, breaks an elevated and generous state of soul, drags great thoughts to petty ones, makes [men] pusillanimous and irascible, obstinate and hardened, servilely soft and incapable of anything. Furthermore, the will, being agitated by the insatiable drive for pleasure, no longer follows reason, but furor…. Someone who lived practicing the vice of sodomy will suffer more pains in Hell than any one else, because this is the worst sin that there is.” (St. Bernardine of Siena, Predica XXXIX, in Le prediche volgari (Milan: Rizzoli, 1936), pp. 869ff., 915, in F. Bernadei, op. cit., pp. 11f)

18 We know that those who are children of God do not keep on sinning. The Son of God keeps them safe. The evil one can't harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God. We know that the whole world is under the control of the evil one 1 John 5

Knights4Christ

Oct 1, 2011

Program 14573
A Catholic Response to the Gay Identity
with Monica Breaux
Increasingly, we are recei
ving calls on our live radio program from parents, siblings or friends who have a loved one involved in the gay lifestyle. Their questions are inevitably the same. What can we do, they ask. Can we invite our loved one and his or her partner to our upcoming family event? What do we do if they want to share a room? Our loved one is going to marry his same sex partner. Can I attend the wedding? Today, our guest is going to share with us Church teaching and the pastoral direction given to us so we can fulfill our moral duty in responding to people who identify themselves as gay

www.womenofgrace.com/tv-shows/14573-A-Catholi…

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Knights4Christ

Oct 1, 2011

Same-sex attraction (SSA) IS A TEMPTATION no different to a heterosexual temptation WHO IS inclined to commit adultery or those who have a sexual addiction , or those who struggle with Alcholims today is labeled "as identity"= GAY ONLY IN THIS SIN OF SODOMY WE CAN SEE THIS phenomenon when the sin is blend with the sinner

This is a myth THAT SOME WHO STRUGGLE WITH SSA CAN'T CHANGE that the community identifies itself with sin= GAY wants to sell so OTHERS do not seek FOR help!

Many Saint have spoke AGAINTS the sin of the sodomy only today we get confuse for the MEDIA PROPAGANDA MACHINE

9 Don't you know that evil people will not receive God's kingdom? Don't be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who are prostitutes or who commit homosexual acts. 10 Neither will thieves or those who always want more and more. Neither will those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat. People who live like that will not receive God's kingdom.
11 Some of you used to do those things. But your sins were washed away. You were made holy. You were made right with God. All of that was done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

OTHER REASON IS BECAUSE THE SIN OF SODOMY BECAME AN SEXUAL ADDICTION

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Michel-René Landry

Oct 1, 2011

The best therapy, is to go see a Catholic priest. They are the #1 doctor on thise earth. They resolve every problem thate you have. Because every thinge is connected to the spiritual.
Those who have probleme, it's the soul thate is affected. We need to feed our soul with the proper food, that is the catholic churche.
If you don't get the proper food, you end up withe multiple probleme.

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Deo gratias.

schoole

Oct 1, 2011

therapy is both possible and potentially well-indicated for many individuals
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therapy is both possible and potentially well-indicated for many individuals

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Oct 1, 2011

From the article: such therapy is both possible and potentially well-indicated for many individuals

How many? And how many cannot be helped by therapy?

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These are empirical questions which will require the accumulation of data over an extended period of time over a larger set of individuals.

The value of this study is that the data reject the hypothesis that homosexuality is not changeable at all, a position supported by the politicized homosexual lobby. Such an absolutist position is typical of those who would use and abuse "science" to advance their agenda for political reasons.