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[Hubrissa]

It seemed like good news, even if long overdue: on August 6, the American Psychological Association (APA), also known as “Mostly Old, Mostly White, Mostly Straight, Mostly Men Who Decide Who’s Nuts and Who’s Not”  decreed that “mental health professionals should avoid telling clients that they can change from gay to straight though therapy or other treatments.”
Nonetheless, The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), as in (“Party on Narth!”) will meet in November in West Palm Beach, FL to advocate and promote sexual conversion therapies.
Among NARTH’s positions:
The right to seek therapy to change one's sexual adaptation should be considered self-evident and inalienable.  Translation: If you’re gay and want to pay us for years of therapy aimed at making you not gay, we’re more than happy to take your money. After which, you’ll still be gay.
"Tolerance and diversity" means nothing if it is extended to activists and not traditionalists on the homosexual issue. Translation: We should be willing to listen respectfully to birthers, creationists, the Flat Earth Society, and Michele Bachmann even if what they purport to be true is utterly without basis in fact.
On the same weekend in November, in the same city, an opposing group will convene the 2009 Anti-Heterosexism Conference to “co-create ways to help survivors repair the damage caused by their experiences in sexual conversion therapies, and create social change that values, loves, and celebrates all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender-identity.”   
Anti-Heterosexism advocates state that so-called sexual orientation conversion therapies “frequently teach that LGBT people are lonely and unhappy individuals who never achieve societal acceptance, satisfying interpersonal relationships, or a genuine faith experience.”
The APA said this in 2006: "The APA’s concern about the positions espoused by NARTH and so-called conversion therapy is that they are not supported by the science. There is simply no sufficient scientifically sound evidence that sexual orientation can be changed."
You go, old white straight guys!!
The OWSGs, however, are still not quite all the way on board, as evidenced by a piece in the Wall Street Journal of August 6, 2009. This article reports that, under the new APA guidelines, “the therapist must make it clear that homosexuality doesn’t signal a mental or emotional disorder, [and] gay men and women can lead happy and healthy lives, and… there is no evidence therapy can change sexual orientation.”
However, says the Journal article, the APA also notes that if the client believes that “his same-sex attractions would be sinful or destructive to his faith,” the therapist might help him: “That might require living celibately… or framing a life of struggle as an opportunity to grow closer to God.”  THAT sure sounds like the happy and healthy life we’re supposed to be able to live!
Summary: The APA says there’s no scientific basis to support conversion therapy so you shouldn’t bother with it, but if your faith (also unsupported by science) tells you your sexual orientation is sinful, then by all means choose celibacy and misery. But only if that makes you happy.

[javedjee77]

Thankful to you.