New study: Sexual behavior changes but not sexual orientation
Media have been all over the Bachmann clinic story this week with lots of related discussion about how much, if at all, sexual orientation changes. As a part of this discussion, I noted that a study I...
View ArticleCA Senate committee passes bill to ban sexual orientation change efforts for...
According to the Washington Post, a CA Senate committee voted to refer CA Senate Bill 1172 to the full Senate for a vote. SB 1172 would require practitioners of sexual orientation change efforts to get...
View ArticleNPR Segment on Changes at Exodus International
A segment on changes at Exodus is coming up on NPR sometime between 4:30 and 4:45pm. It should repeat again between 6:30-6:45pm. I have a few lines but I am not sure who else is in on it. Listen, learn...
View ArticleI Have Updated My Post on Generalizing Research on One Type of Therapy to...
UPDATE 2: Yes, I changed my title to exclude reference to horse therapy. Read why here. UPDATE: There is now a dispute over the facts reported in this story. On the Cowboy Church website, this alert...
View ArticleMajor New Study Finds Sexual Orientation Change Efforts To Be Ineffective
A study in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, released online in March, examined sexual orientation change efforts by over 1,600 current or former Mormons. Some beneficial results were noted but the...
View ArticleJONAH Guilty of Consumer Fraud According to NJ Jury
That didn’t take long. Today, the jury in the sexual orientation change case in NJ said Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing (JONAH) was guilty of consumer fraud by claiming sexual orientation can...
View ArticleSouthern Baptist Seminary Leaders Reject Reparative Therapy
Let me just say that I opposed reparative therapy before it was cool to oppose it. Yesterday, Al Mohler and others articulated their position against reparative therapy, also known as sexual...
View ArticleInterview with Mark Yarhouse on SAMHSA Report Calling for an End to Sexual...
On October 15, I linked to a report published by SAMHSA which called for an end to sexual orientation change efforts for LGBT minors. At the time, I wrote: Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and...
View ArticleRobert Spitzer, Father of Modern Psychiatric Diagnosis, Dies at 83
According to the New York Times, psychiatrist and author of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual Robert Spitzer died on Christmas Day. Spitzer is credited with...
View ArticlePeople Can Change Becomes Brothers on a Road Less Traveled
Several years after the collapse of Exodus International, now comes sexual orientation change group People Can Change to say they are changing focus from change of orientation to a focus on living...
View ArticleFamily Policy Alliance Misleads Public on Conversion Therapy Legislation
To hear Focus on the Family’s public policy arm, Family Policy Alliance, talk about it, the opponents of forcing teens to go to sexual orientation change efforts (aka conversion therapy) don’t want...
View ArticleSponsor: CA Conversion Therapy Bill Won’t Ban Books or the Bible
Some conservative pundits are worried that a bill moving to the California State Senate will ban the Bible or at least some Christian books. Upon examination, I don’t see a basis in fact for that...
View ArticleSponsor: Celibacy as Therapy Goal Allowed by CA’s Anti-Conversion Therapy Bill
The outrage surrounding California’s anti-conversion therapy bill (AB 2943) is growing by the press release. For instance, last Monday (April 30) Summit Ministries canceled a conference in CA because...
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