Matthew Shepard Foundation Applauds American Psychological Association LifeWalk is set for Sunday, October 10th, 2010 at Lee Park and is a family- and pet-friendly event benefitting AIDS Arms, Inc. to raise AIDS awareness and funds to help HIV+ men, women and children in North Texas. LifeWalk is a 3.2 mile walk through Dallas' scenic Turtle Creek and Uptown. To date LifeWalk has raised and distributed more than $8 million for AIDS services throughout the Dallas community. |
Gay Conversion and Reparative Therapy Some psychologists and other therapists engage in a controversial practice of attempting to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. It is called "conversion" or "reparative" therapy. Essentially all such therapists are motivated by strong religiously conservative beliefs. Many are from Evangelical Christian ministries who believe that God hates homosexuality, that people choose their sexual orientation, and that they can change it with some counseling effort and prayer. In 1995, a resolution was defeated by the APA membership that would have called such therapy unethical professional behavior. A similar resolution was defeated by the American Psychiatric Association in 1994. On 1997-AUG-14, they did pass a resolution which "stops short of declaring reparative or 'conversion' therapy unethical." It was passed by an overwhelming vote in spite of vehement opposition by "a vocal minority of psychologists, psychiatrists and religious groups."
The procedure of attempting to covert gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals to heterosexuality
has been criticized as bigotry posing as science. Doug Haldeman, president of the APA's
Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues helped to write
the resolution. He said "In the past 10 years, Christian fundamentalists have enlisted a
coalition of old-style psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers who have become very
visible in this country and internationally, and who have as a mission to `help' homosexuals get
rid of their sexual orientation...Our aim is not to try to stop them per se or interfere with
anyone's right to practice [therapy] but we want to expose the social context that creates this
market." APA officials are concerned that some who enter therapy are being coerced by
their families, employers, church members etc. Want to find out more on this terrible act visit the Friends of B.R.Y.C.E. Informtion site Friendsofbryce.info This site has been taking down read about it on my blog Click Here Transsexual Rights To some people get confused by the word Transsexual and think of it as a lifestyle not really knowing what it really means or what a Transsexual person goes through when they decide to be who they really truly are. Transsexual is a term that some people think of cross dressers and think of it as a nasty sexual perversion. Those people are so far from the truth. So were going to set the record straight! When a person identifies themselves as a Transsexual they are either a woman or a man that was born into a body that there soul and mind was not meant to be. For us that are not Transsexuals we could not phantom the idea of being in a body that we did not think of as ours. Trans Gendered identity is truly a medical condition and needs people to be open minded. There are not days that someone wakes up and being a man and decides that they want to be a woman. Its something that these people have felt from the time they could talk, walk, and when they grow up the urge of knowing that they are now how they are meant to be is not what they are. Really? How many of you think that person decides to go through painful reconstructive sexual indentity surgery for the fun of it? THEY DONT! Transsexuals are forced to be hiding in some communities and in other countries are even punished by death because they think its a medical disease that there is no cure for. This kind of behavior is just sickening and there needs to be more education on this subject so these loving people can live normal and productive lives. They are humans just like the rest of us and they should have equal rights!
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