The National Association for the Research and Treatment of Homosexuality (NARTH) claims to represent that segment of the mental health community that believes that sexual orientation is mutable. Their website state’s that “NARTH’s primary goal is to make effective psychological…
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As you may have read recently, NARTH has received a lot of criticism over the callous advice of one of their committee members, Joseph Berger, M.D. Their response seems to consist of private comments of disapproval followed by a stealth…
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From PinkNews.co.uk: Gay pressure groups have accused an “ex-gay” organisation of “inviting child abuse” after claiming children with gender identity issues should be exposed to bullying. A coalition of organisations monitoring groups claiming to convert gay people back to heterosexuality,…
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I knew something had to be done with the images from the recent exgay protest at the APA convention. The two groups who organized the protest (NARTH and Exodus) hold far more radical views than the protest presented. The first…
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Both NARTH and the Tradititional Values Coalition have published summaries/reactions to a story in The Advocate titled “Life in the T Zone – With the aid of testosterone, biological women are expanding the old ideas of male and female. But…
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AP Reports NARTH’s APA Protest
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An AP article reports on the two dozen protesters that NARTH and FOTF shipped in to protest the APA’s position on reorientation. The group, which was sponsored by the conservative ministry Focus on the Family, was protesting what it sees…
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Wayne has posted some photos from yesterday’s NARTH/Exodus protest. They’re kind of blurry but I swear that’s Randy “boy wonder” Thomas in the orange. Alan “Batman” Chambers doesn’t appear in the pics. In case you’re wondering why the Batman nicknames,…
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“For over three decades the consensus of the mental health community has been that homosexuality is not an illness and therefore not in need of a cure. The APA’s concern about the positions espoused by NARTH and so-called conversation therapy…
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NARTH Enters the Blogosphere
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Yes, NARTH has entered the blogosphere. Alas, there’s still a long way to go before they truly enter the 21st century.
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Updated for NARTH reponse (see below) In the 1990’s, Anthony Bogaert released a study in which he and his fellow researchers had determined that birth order of male children had a correlation with the incidences of homosexual orientation. This observation…