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Born WHAT Way?

By Dr. Paul Cameron

Dr. Cameron is Chariman of the Family Research Institute of Colorado Springs, Colorado USA. Click here for more information about this organization. You may contact him at: Family Research Institute, PO Box 62640, Colorado Springs, CO 80962 USA. Phone number: (303) 681-3113.

Gay activists regularly claim that they were "born that way" and thus cannot change their desires or stop their activities. Yet there are numerous

documented cases in which homosexuals have changed. The Masters-

Johnson Institute reported that: "A 25-year-old man had had his first sexual experience when he was 13 years old. It was arranged by his

lesbian mother with an older gay man. After that episode, his imagery and

interpersonal sexual experience were exclusively homosexual.... The man

was motivated to establish a heterosexual life style because he was

sincerely distressed by public disapproval of homosexuality and his

personal loneliness. [After treatment, he] has been followed for 3 1/2

years. His sexual interaction has been exclusively heterosexual. He has

moved out of the gay community and has changed... his life style."(1)

● Was this man's sexual orientation biologically deturmined?

● If so, how was it initially set - toward heterosexuality or homosexuality?

● And if it was set initially, how was he able to change?

The answers to these seemingly "esoteric" questions matter a great deal.

For one thing, the political stakes are high. The March 3, 1993 New York

Times/CBS News Poll reported that a majority of those who believe that gays "cannot change"

favored permitting homosexuals to serve in the military. Only a third of those who believed it is a choice felt the same way.

Many opinions about gay rights hinge on the question of whether gays are "born that way" and/or

"can't change." For instance, 57% of those who believe it is immutable consider homosexuality an acceptable life style vs 18% of those who consider it a choice. But if homosexual activity is no more inevitable or unchangeable than drunkenness or drug use, most people seem willing to insist that homosexuals abandon their destructive behavior.

Two prominent 'homosexual' psychiatrists, examining the evidence of their own lives as well as those of others, came to different conclusions in this long-running debate. The first of these, Sigmund Freud, saw his homosexual urges as pathological. Through self-analysis, he overcame them and eventually rejoiced in the "greater independence that results from having overcome my

homosexuality."(2) The second of these, Richard Isay, confronted his desires, pronounced them

"natural," divorced his wife and joined the gay subculture. (3)

In 1992 Isay admitted that the "conviction among most, though not all, dynamically oriented psychiatrists in general and psychoanalysts in particular [is] that homosexuality can and should be changed to heterosexuality." (4) Yet, while acknowledging this consensus among his colleagues, Isay called attempts to change homosexual desire "the greatest abuse of psychiatry in America today."

Why? Because the "attempt to change is extremely harmful." (3) Instead, society should change to

accommodate homosexuality.

Dr. Isay, who chairs the American Psychiatric Association's committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, argues that homosexuality "is constitutional [that is, biological in origin]."(4) To

support his position, he cited as

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