The straight truth
A University of Utah psychologist is tearing into a national group that claims homosexuality can be "cured" for twisting her research to their own ends.Lisa Diamond has done sexual-identity research that suggests a degree of "fluidity" in the sexual preferences of women. But she told The Salt Lake Tribune that NARTH, the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, used her studies to argue that being gay is a choice that can be treated. Diamond recently taped an Internet video criticizing NARTH:
I bent over backward to make it difficult for my work to be misused, and to no avail. When people are motivated to twist something for political purposes, they'll find a way to do it.In the past, such "treatment" to cure homosexuality included aversion therapy such as, electric shocks, inducing nausea and exposing patients to endless tapes of the Donny and Marie Osmond show. (The last therapy was discontinued when LDS scientist discovered it increased gayness.)
NARTH maintains an office in the same downtown Salt Lake City building as Evergreen International, a Mormon faith-based group that encourages gays to abandon same-sex attraction. NARTH's sole paid staffer is Evergreen's executive director, David Pruden.
In the video, Diamond makes it crystal clear:
The [NARTH] therapists are saying, 'We can change your orientation,' when all of the data - all of the data - suggest that is not the case. They say same-sex attractions can disappear. They don't.
4 Comments:
I think watching that much Donnie and Marie would make me even MORE gay!!! Homosexuality is not a illness and can not be cured, what morons!!
So it's "fluid" but can't be changed. OK. Don't tie yourselves in knots or anything. That could be painful.
Are there programs (other than prison time) that can turn heterosexuals into gays?
Your first amusing post. Congrats, Glen.
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