What If You Could Change Beg Gay?

Contents:

• WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE BEG GAY?
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• “HELP ME CHANGE FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT”
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• REVIEW 2023

WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE BEG GAY?

Wh this long history of evince, ’s not surprisg that a recent psychiatry textbook, Essential Psychopathology & Its Treatment, nclud that homosexual orientatn n be changed and that therapy isn’t necsarily harmful. While many mental health re provirs and profsnal associatns have exprsed nsirable skepticism that sexual orientatn uld be changed wh psychotherapy and also assumed that theraptic attempts at reorientatn would produce harm, recent empiril evince monstrat that homosexual orientatn n ed be theraptilly changed motivated clients, and that reorientatn therapi do not produce emotnal harm when attempted (e. There is a lot of wisdom to be found here bee many therapists believe that homosexualy has s roots hurtful relatnship patterns, pecially wh fay members, and many homosexual men and women report exactly that.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

Fortunately, even for people who do not live an area where there is a mistry tailored for those alg wh unwanted homosexualy, there are onle support foms that n be almost as powerful as face-to-face groups.

Intertgly, don’t seem to matter what the particular stronghold is a person’s life—whether be homosexualy, gluttony, dg penncy, pulsive gamblg or shoppg, alholism, sexual addictn, or any other stronghold—the most effective solutn is the same: timacy wh Christ. A wise iend observed that homosexualy is the u of sful ways of alg wh pa–sful bee they cut off om the One who n heal and meet our needs, sful bee they place at the center of our universe and we don’t belong there. But hundreds of former homosexuals have found a large gree of change, attag abstence om homosexual behavrs, lseng of homosexual temptatns, strengtheng their sense of mascule or feme inty, and rrectg distorted styl of relatg wh members of the same and oppose genr.

“HELP ME CHANGE FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT”

She is a equent speaker for MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) and Stonecroft Mistri (Christian Women's Connectns), and serv on the board of Livg Hope Mistri, a Christ-centered outreach to those alg wh unwanted homosexualy.

If such nro-terventns are veloped, they will have ser implitns for a gay rights movement that is largely centered around a "born this way" rponse to discrimatn—and the ia that sexual orientatn isn't somethg one n the science standsWh Oxford Universy lleagu Julian Savulcu and Anrs Sandberg, one of —Brian Earp—has proposed dividg potential nro-terventns to sexual orientatn to two the one si, there are current and emergg technologi that uld dimish (but not necsarily re-orient) same-sex love and sire. That is, they have a dampeng effect on one's entire libido—whether one has homoerotic sir or otherwise—rather than blockg attractn to a specific person or group of people based on their outward sex-based the other si, then, are what might be lled "high-tech nversn therapi.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

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REVIEW 2023

The advent of high-tech nversn therapy would be disastro for the "born this way" gay rights movement a variety of evince, such as the tw studi mentned above, as well as the efficy of Christian nversn mps, to argue that beg gay is blogil and—hence—unchangeable. If one is born gay, this argument ns, then one nnot change this fact anymore than one n change one's height or sk is an ia that has been movgly exprsed the chos of a recent pop song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Yet if btechnologi of the future do allow people to change their sexual orientatns, then the gay rights movement would lose one of s central we thk that better arguments are need—and on that are not pennt on the current state of technology.

As one of has argued, "When to protectg vulnerable children om the mise of love- or sexualy-alterg technologi, the strong arm of the law uld go a long way" rcg the potential for, we n take a closer look at our ncepts about what means to be gay the first place, and ask whether beg "born this way" is actually necsary to fend agast discrimatn. In a typil le of rponse, they took issue wh Carson's empiril claim: Beg gay isn't a choice, they sisted, often potg to studi that seem to show a blogil basis for sexual there are at least two problems wh this kd of reactn. First, mix up "beg gay" (which is a qutn of how one self-intifi, and therefore somethg about which dividuals do have some measure of choice) wh "havg a same-sex sexual orientatn" ( other words, beg predomantly or exclively attracted to members of the same sex), only the latter of which is—currently—largely outsi of one's why should we thk that a person's sexualy has to be unchangeable the first place orr to serve as a basis for equal rights?

Whether you're gay, straight, bisexual—or whether you reject such simplistic labels altogether—you should be ee to form nsensual relatnships wh whomsoever you so long as the state is volved regulatg marriage, should not be allowed to ny s cizens equal treatment before the law, whatever their Vierra is a nrophilosophy graduate stunt at Geia State Universy and Brian D Earp is rearch associate science and ethics at Universy of Oxford.