FRC Announcement: (More) Evidence that Sexual Orientation Can Change

I received this statement from a research at the Family Research Council.

It's conclusions are notable yet commonplace, considering the fact more people have known, and most people have recognized, that people are NOT born gay, and the fact is that more people are finding that they can leave homosexual conduct without too much trouble.

The truth is that the whole LGBT Movement is nothing more than cultural Marxism, looking for any means possible to destroy the moral fabric of the United States and undermine the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness which makes America Great!

I will add a few counterpoints to the general statements provided below:

1. There is no such thing as "sexual orientation".

2. There really is no such thing as "a homosexual", since every human being has a fallen nature in need of redemption.

3. There is no such thing as "sexual identity."

4. I think we should stop talking about "homosexual tendencies" and simply refer to these fleshly leanings as "same-sex desires".

That's what this young man did when he final "came out" -- then came home!

Here's the full report:

I wanted to let everyone on this list know about a new paper of mine just published by Family Research Council last month. It is titled Evidence Shows Sexual Orientation Can Change: Debunking the Myth of “Immutability.”

Triggered by a question from a couple of people via email (one of whom was Stephen Black—thank you, Stephen!) about how many “ex-gays” there actually are, I began digging a little more deeply into the question of the evidence showing that sexual orientation can change. I am NOT talking about studies regarding outcomes of “sexual orientation change efforts,” per se (I wrote about that last September; see https://www.frc.org/issueanalysis/are-sexual-orientation-change-efforts-soce-effective-are-they-harmful-what-the-evidence-shows). Rather, I am talking about longitudinal surveys (of the same people over long periods of time) with questions about people’s sexuality. They clearly show that all of the elements of sexual orientation—attractions, behavior, and identity—are subject to change over time (but homosexuals are MORE likely to change than heterosexuals).

In the paper I quote extensively from the 2016 paper on “Scrutinizing Immutability” by (lesbian) researcher Lisa Diamond (famous for her work on “sexual fluidity” among women) and Clifford Rosky. But I obtained copies of 6 journal articles based on these four large data bases, and did my own analysis (to the limits of my statistical ability) of them as well.

I am going ahead and attaching the PDF of the full paper (22 pages long); but you can also obtain it online here:

https://www.frc.org/sexualorientation

with the PDF here:

https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF19C38.pdf

(I should say that the paper does not actually answer the question of how many ex-gays there are, but only that they clearly exist! Maybe I will work on that next).

I will put the Executive Summary below.

Peter Sprigg

Senior Fellow for Policy Studies

Family Research Council

Washington, D.C.

Executive Summary

Many of the advances of the homosexual movement have been based on the claim that sexual orientation is “immutable.” For example, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in the 2015 Supreme Court case that redefined marriage to include same-sex couples rested upon that assertion. Key policy issues still being debated in which the supposed “immutability” of sexual orientation can be an issue include efforts by LGB activists to expand non-discrimination laws to protect sexual orientation (such as the proposed federal “Equality Act”), and efforts to restrict or ban sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE), sometimes called “conversion therapy.”

The concept of “sexual orientation” is multi-faceted, involving a combination of attractions, behaviors, and personal identity. Changes in any of these elements (sometimes called “sexual fluidity”), and a lack of “stability” or “exclusivity” in or among them, represents evidence that sexual orientation can change. This paper reports results from four large data sets reflecting longitudinal analysis of the same individuals over time in population-based samples (three from the United States and one from New Zealand). All demonstrate that significant change in each of the elements of sexual orientation is possible. The percentage changing from homosexuality to heterosexuality ranged from 13% to 53%, while the percentage changing from heterosexuality to homosexuality ranged only from 1% to 12%. This suggests that heterosexuality is largely stable but homosexuality is not. In one survey of “same-sex attracted respondents,” up to 38% of men and 53% of women “changed to heterosexuality” in only a six-year period.

FRC endorses the call by pro-LGB scholars Lisa Diamond and Clifford Rosky to “abandon the immutability argument once and for all.” Diamond, Rosky, and others on the Left argue that a belief in personal freedom should be sufficient support for pro-homosexual policies. However, this amounts to substituting the principles of the sexual revolution for the principles of the civil rights movement. The public would be wise to question instead whether the goals of the homosexual movement can be justified at all.

Maine MassResistance Fights Back in the Culture Wars

I am now an active member of MassResistance.

California MassResistance is not the first out-of-state chapter, though.

Virginia MassResistance opened up, and there is a Maine chapter, too, with active pro-family members who don't stop resisting the Big Gay Hate Machine.

How do many homosexual activists impose their agenda onto private firms?

Non-discrimination clauses, which recognize "sexual orientation" as an identity.

It's a behavior, and a good culture, and healthy communities discriminate behaviors all the time.

Good parents raising godly children help them to choose what is good.

Discrimination for behaviors should not be removed or pushed away, but welcomed and respected

Find out what Maine MassResistance doing to stop the imposition of the homosexual agenda on our society:

The newest MassResistance affiliate is going for the jugular of the LGBT movement – the “non-discrimination” laws that they leverage so well.

We need to stop tinkering around the edges.

Pro-family forces need to stop holding onto whatever territory they have left.

It's time to take back the ground which rightly belongs to all of us.

As we all have seen, the LGBT movement uses the “sexual orientation” (and now “gender identity”) non-discrimination state laws (and local ordinances) as their first line of attack to push their agenda into schools, businesses, government, and other institutions of society.

Fine.

Let's get rid of these pernicious codes.

Maine MassResistance is on the job.

Last September Mike [Heath] formed the group “Equal Rights, Not Special Rights” to bring the battle statewide yet again. Brian Camenker of MassResistance is on its Advisory Board. Mike has also been bringing together dedicated activists from across Maine. This month the group became a new affiliate of MassResistance!

In addition, since leaving the League, Mike has become an ordained Christian minister – fighting kind, not the bland social-worker type that permeate so many of the churches these days. It’s refreshing just to be around him, say many committed Christians.

The fighting kind, not the compliant, supine kind.

Check out this incredible verse of scripture:

"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (Jude 3)

It's not play time or run-away time. It's time to stand!

Mike Heath (left) readies the referendum

Starting in late 2015, Mike began putting together the plan for another statewide referendum to remove “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from the Maine non-discrimination statute.

In March he and his group officially filed the papers and created a separate No Special Rights PAC. The ball was rolling!

Perspective is crucial in this fight. Maine is not a purple state, but a blue state. Thankfully, liberal Democratic infighting have encouraged strong anti-Establishment Republicans like Paul LePage to gain power in the state, and they in turn fight for clear-cut, pro-family values.

Bruce Poliquin was elected to the Second Congressional District, too: first pro-life and pro-family Congressman in the Pine Tree  State.

Unlike most Republicans, Paul LePage kicks butt, and doesn't pull punches. He fights and wins.

So does Mike Heath!

The media went crazy, and the LGBT activists are terrified, too.

Heath punched back and published the following:

No one can claim that ours is a virtuous society. The public looks with suspicion at each and every presidential candidate. One candidate is seen as boastful and proud, an abuser of women. Rumors of infidelity swirl about another candidate. Yet another is distrusted for wrongdoing in an official capacity.

And if we peer into the many deep cracks and fissures that now rend the fabric of our society — the opposition of left versus right, rich versus poor, man versus woman — we will see that our society has been poisoned at the root. The life-giving root of society is of course the relationship between man and woman on which the propagation and proper ordering of society depends. [Bold letters mine]

For that reason, I have spent a lifetime defending the proposition that all sex outside of marriage is immoral. I vigorously opposed and will continue to oppose such concepts as sexual liberation, gay marriage, polyamory, pansexuailty and the “hook up culture.”

The break-down of our culture stems from the destruction of the family. Sex outside of marriage is not just destructive for the people directly engaged, but for communities as a whole. The disregard for proper relations are tearing apart the fundamental fabric of our society.

Sadly, this is not a new story. Polybius the Greco-Roman historian witnessed the en masse implosion of the Greek city states because of the expansion of the state and the decimation of individual--familial--virtue.

Heath drives the deeper point home about the perverse Obergefell decision, which forced homosexual marriage on the entire country:

The decision in the Obergefell case was not merely incoherent; it was utterly and thoroughly perverse in the original meaning of that word — “twisted.” Extending a nonexistent right for members of the same sex to marry, in combination with a so-called gay rights law, has the effect of robbing the people of the United States of the most fundamental right of all, the right to act in accordance with one’s conscience.

The majority opinion in the case redefined liberty into a subtle form of slavery.

The Supreme Court majority opinion ignored biology, legal precedent, and the United States Constitution in order to create this terrible amalgam of marriage.

Heath has the courage to reject this nonsense. Heath has spoken out against "gay rights," which are neither gay nor rights.

It's time to repeal the "sexual orientation" protections in civil laws. Behaviors are not a right, and it's time for tyrannical special interests to act and demand otherwise.