Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything by Robert Reilly

Author:Robert Reilly [Reilly, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9781681493206
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2015-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Mutability

However, even if one were to grant that sodomy is a morally fine act, the contention that homosexuals are a class is indefensible because sexual orientation is not an immutable characteristic—even if some are unable to change it. There is simply too much clinical and other evidence that proves otherwise. A black man has never become a white man, or a Hispanic an Asian. A woman has never become a man, or a man a woman—without massive surgical and hormonal intervention. There is ample fluidity, however, particularly in younger years, in sexual orientation. Straight men have become homosexuals, and homosexuals have become straight. The mutable cannot be immutable.

In 2003 Dr. Jeffrey Satinover testified before the Massachusetts Senate Judicial Committee on this subject. He said that the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) study of sexuality

was completed in 1994 by a large research team from the University of Chicago and funded by almost every large government agency and NGO with an interest in the AIDS epidemic. They studied every aspect of sexuality, but among their findings is the following, which I’m going to quote for you directly: “7.1 [to as much as 9.1] percent of the men [we studied, more than 1,500] had at least one same-gender partner since puberty. . . . [But] almost 4 percent of the men [we studied] had sex with another male before turning eighteen but not after. These men. . . constitute 42 percent of the total number of men who report ever having a same gender experience.” Let me put this in context: Roughly ten out of every 100 men have had sex with another man at some time—the origin of the 10 percent gay myth. Most of these will have identified themselves as gay before turning eighteen and will have acted on it. But by age 18, a full half of them no longer identify themselves as gay and will never again have a male sexual partner. And this is not a population of people selected because they went into therapy; it’s just the general population. Furthermore, by age twenty-five, the percentage of gay identified men drops to 2.8 percent. This means that without any intervention whatsoever, three out of four boys who think they’re gay at age 16 aren’t by 25.33

In their article “Homosexuality and the Truth”, former homosexuals Sy Rogers and Alan Medinger provide the following quotes from experts who disagree with the contention that homosexuality is immutable:

Dr. Reuben Fine, Director for the New York Centre for Psychoanalytic Training, in his 1987 book, Psychoanalytic Theory, Male and Female Homosexuality: Psychological Approaches: “I have recently had occasion to review the result of psychotherapy with homosexuals, and been surprised by the findings. It is paradoxical that even though politically active homosexual groups deny the possibility of change, all studies from Schrenck-Notzing on have found positive effects, virtually regardless of the kind of treatment used. . . a considerable percentage of overt homosexuals became heterosexual. . . If the patients were motivated, whatever procedure is adopted, a large percentage will give up their homosexuality.

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