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Gay
People Can Change
On
May 9th, 2001 the Spitzer Report was being reported on throughout the
country. Dr. Spitzer released a study claiming “Gay’s Can Change!”
When
this happened I contacted the local media. So far, ABC TV5 was the only one to
do a local report. Not only am I of ‘those’ who believe change is possible,
but I was part of the study! The following is taken from an Exodus Int. press
release:
ABC
News confronted Spitzer with the claim by some gays that “change therapy”
causes damage, depression and even suicide among clients who are not successful
in finding change. “There’s no doubt that many homosexuals have been
unsuccessful and, attempting to change, become depressed and their life becomes
worse,” Dr. Spitzer responded. “I’m not disputing that. What I am
disputing is that it is invariably the outcome.”
“In
Fact, he said, to dismiss his survey would be to dismiss an awful lot of
psychological and psychiatric research. The methods used in designing his study
are the same as those used to determine the effectiveness of drugs, he says.”
According
to the ABC report, Spitzer asked subjects “very detailed questions not only
about sexual attraction, but also about fantasies during masturbation and sex,
and yearnings for romantic and emotional involvement with the same sex and a
variety of other variables that indicate sexual orientation. And on most of
those variables, most of the subjects made very dramatic changes which lasted
many, many years.”
“The
assumption that people can’t change is a political conclusion rather than a
scientific conclusion,” said Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, director of NARTH and an
Exodus member. “It points to the influential gay lobbyists within the
profession, of which there are many. When we issued a study in 2000, saying more
than 800 people had changed, it was pushed to the side. But when Spitzer issues
this, it has to be listened to because of his track record as a gay advocate.”
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