While psychiatrists will, of course, be available to help people with a homosexual orientation if they want such help, the APA's decision is a clear disclaimer of responsibility for
changing homosexual persons who are not troubled by their orientation and whose behavior is not socially irresponsible.
Not exact matches
The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of
homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to
homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to
homosexuals and «to help them to
change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»
Engaging or not engaging in
homosexual activities is viewed as a choice, and thus the power of Christ is needed to enable the
person to
change or resist
homosexual temptations.
For some
homosexual persons, the effort to
change can mean years of individual and group therapy, agonized prayers, suicidal depressions, and the constant fear of detection, loss of job and attack by straight men.
God's morality does not
change, and as a church and a
people we often have a lot of bigotry toward the increasing numbers of
homosexuals in our midst — however!
To
homosexual people reading this who are hurting: please be assured that not all Christians condemn you, hate you or want to
change you.
Flat out, I want as many
homosexuals, drug addicts, divorcees, and alcoholics as possible darkening the doors of Brand New Church, because those
people want and need
change.
The smell like someone jamming two large needles a good deal up into your nasal cavity and then taking them out and then jamming them back in the diaper had to be
changed though so I learned along with the wonder and amazement of responsibility in the life of a little universe just learning about how wonderful and talented it is and all it had to do was be born and stuff just worked unless the cuts came but I did let that happen not when
homosexuals could get married and marijuana was legal now to remove the guns and evangelicals and live in peace with the other
people.
If the
homosexual can
change his or her sexual orientation, such a
person should seek to
change.
«I'd have to say the most dramatic
change that's taken place is our view about sexual identity,» he said, «In the 1980s the defence of
people who were
homosexual was based entirely on the rights to privacy.
Even though most LGBTQ
people live successful, happy lives, some
homosexual or bisexual
people may seek to
change their sexual orientation through therapy, often coerced by family members or religious groups to try and do so.
Sexual fluidity can occur in
people who are definitively heterosexual or
homosexual but simply experience
change in their sexual response.