LGBTQ activist TracerBullet's eyes perk up when he see's any mention of a study.
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Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
A few pages back I wrote about the death of Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychologist who was instrumental in getting homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders back in 1973.
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4567080&postcount=1189
As I'd shown in Part #1 of the thread, when the APA removed homosexuality as a mental disorder, it had a huge impact on legislation, i.e. many States decriminalized homosexuality afterwards.
Our friend Peter LaBarbera at Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) has posted a great article about Bob Spitzer, and how later in life he acknowledged (through his own study) that same sex attractions can be changed. Due to 'gaystapo' tactics, Spitzer disavowed his own study, even though it was not retracted.
If you are talking about "Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation?"
Yes, that would be this study, complete with "Acknowledgments":
Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2003, pp. 403–417 ( C ° 2003)
Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual
Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change
from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation1
Robert L. Spitzer, M.D.2;
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/classes/Psych130F2010/LabDocuments/Spitzer.pdf
Then you are fully aware that this study never passed peer review because it was so poorly designed and executed.
Oh yes, "poorly designed and executed" (gee, how many times have we heard that lie?). I'm sure that it had nothing to do with showing that people who have homosexual desires really can change and the fact that the LGBTQueer run psychiatric community doesn't like the idea of change (unless that 'change' involves genital mutilation surgery or 8 year old children "coming out").
Two years later "Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation?" was printed in the Archives of Sexual Behavior with the editorial notation that it had not passed peer review and the explanation it was publishing it because of ongoing interest in the paper.
It's already been acknowledged that the drag queens, fairies and bull dykes at the APA didn't like what they saw.
It was never published as a scientific paper and as such does not need to be retracted. Spitzer did however publish retractions in the Archives of Sexual Behavior and in the Journal of Sexual Behavior
After all of the flack that Spitzer took by telling the truth (and thus being ostracized by the LGBTQ movement that he helped create) what else was there to do?
With compliments of Wayne "Is my bullhorn disrupting your EX Gay meeting?" Besen, here is Spitzer's retraction:
Of course there is no evidence for this and Spitzer himself laughed at the suggestion that he had been badgered, harassed or threatened.
Linda Ames Nicolosi, who had worked on the study with Dr. Spitzer, says differently:
Just before the study was due to be published, I received this S.O.S. call from him: “I have been reviewing the emails that I have received and I must admit I had the fantasy of giving up this whole thing….!”
This turn of events was alarming. I considered his new study to be a needed corrective in the scientific literature, and I didn’t want him to back out. I told him so. He wrote back, “Sorry to frighten you. My main concern—other than what this whole thing does to my reputation in the scientific community—is that the effect of this study is to help 5,000 ex-gays or potential ex-gays … [while] I have seriously hurt five million gays.”
But if the study told the truth, why should Spitzer think about “who would be hurt”? Was consideration of “who would be hurt” (or in this case, “who would dislike the results”) something that had propelled him to de-list homosexuality as a disorder in the first place? Was he really so afraid of public opinion?
Those years were the beginning of a long, punishing barrage of attacks on Spitzer from the gay community
http://americansfortruth.com/2016/0...gays-can-change-their-orientation/#more-23999