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No, You Can't Pray Away the Gay

Saturday, September 15 2007 @ 11:57 AM CDT

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Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, sent out a warning to news organizations on Thursday that they need to remain incredulous about a biased "ex-gay" fraudulent study that would be released by right wing therapists in Nashville later that day.


The purported research was conducted by Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and Mark A. Yarhouse of Pat Robertson University. {These are inferior BIBLE SCHOOLS disguising themselves as universities! i.e. Diploma Mills}The study will purport to demonstrate that that a significant percentage of gay people can turn "straight" through religious- based psychological therapy.

Truth Wins Out says that although judgment on the efficacy of the study needs to be reserved until it is read and analyzed, nevertheless unconfirmed reports give cause for great concern that the pair of notorious anti-gay researchers did little more than telephone professional ex-gay lobbyists and ministers from Exodus International and ask them if they had "changed" because of prayer and religious counseling. If they answered affirmatively and those answers were used as conclusive evidence of the ability of religious fervor to "get rid of gayness", then it is likely that the study results are not only suspect, but wholly invalid.

In addition, Truth Wins Out says there is no indication that key physical measures or tests were included, such as a "No Lie MRI," a scientific truth-detecting brain scan.

"It appears as if this study is the equivalent of the Phillip Morris 'research' team interviewing members of the company's public relations team on the safety of cigarettes. This study may be a deceptive sham with the goal of making it appear as if science backs fundamentalist beliefs on homosexuality. Any 'ex-gay' study that does not include physical components that measure truth are essentially meaningless. After several key ex-gay leaders have been caught in sex scandals, their tales of transformation lack credibility," says Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen.

Pat Robertson is known for his belief that homosexuality brings about hurricanes and meteor strikes. Yarhouse has said that he advises his clients that their homosexual feelings don't have to mean anything at all because "Christ, or God, has a pre-existing claim on their sexuality".

The radical Christian Right has come under heavy fire from an array of opposition groups, many of whom include people who call themselves Christians. The Republican Party is often seen even by its supporters to have shot itself in the foot for courting the Christian Right and its fundamentalist evangelicalism.

Critics have pointd out that throughout the history of Western civilization, religious dogma wrapped up in politics has been a wellspring of lies, ignorance, prejudice, fear, and a kind of vigilante "justice".

What's more, they point out, some members of the purportedly egalitarian Christian faith have not been seen as being as equal as other members.

In the Christian tradition, women have been widely regarded as the root of all evil, a notion rooted in the preachings of Paul. In the New Testament's "First Timothy", he commanded that Christians "suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" for the fact that "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression."

In addition to this, religious politics has seen fit to call for the outright elimination of so-called "heretics" -- a word the origins of which mean "able to choose".

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