"I'm not a counselor to those who practice homosexual behavior, and I don't recall saying I am. If I did, please feel free to point out where, so I can edit it, and apologize. I was responding to an incorrect statement about CBT, thank you.
I think I followed this sentence, but I'm not sure. But I'll address the "repression" and "whiteknuckling" comment. Its an assumption on your part -- and a grossly incorrect one -- that most ex-homosexuals are handling their recovery that way. Sorry to disappoint you, but that isn't the case for all of them. Some? Of course, just like alcoholics and addicts of other kinds. As I said in my post, no one said we weren't going to struggle with sin.
You mean to prove my statements? yeah, terribly inconvenient that is, but what else would you expect of someone who knows what he's talking about?
Yes, actually, I do, and I condemn the unholy treatment of people who practice homosexuality as much as I condemn the acts themselves. However, notice I did not say "condemn the ones who practice them." I have some good friends who have either come out of the homosexual lifestyle, or are still in it. Of the latter, I don't judge them and chastise them. If they want to talk about what the Bible says, I'm available, but I'm not qualified to counsel them. I'm an addictions and behaviors counselor -- I don't have my certification in sexual "orientation" and the sad part is, the psychologists and psychiatrists associations won't offer certification to help people turn away from homosexual practices.
Yet the majority of depression, suicidal thoughts, self-hatred or low self-esteem, and other personality and emotional disorders afflicting those who engage in homosexual practices are brought on by their own inner conviction, not their treatment by society. They live with themselves a lot more than they have to be confronted with hate-mongers, and even those they encounter, they can escape. Its difficult to get away from yourself.
Probably, but since they won't recognize the major cause of the emotional upheaval in those patients, they have to emphasize the secondary causes and label them "primary" out of political correctness.
Yes there is, and His name is Jesus Christ, the same as for all sin. And much as you want to deny it or work your way around it, homosexual activity is a sin, well-defined in both the Old and New Testaments.
The thousands who have left the practice and the lifestyle are the proof that you are kidding yourself, along with everyone else who thinks as you do. God loves everyone, sinners and saints alike, and He did not make anyone who is incapable of leaving their sin at the foot of the cross.
By the way, one of the great dangers of cruising the Internet trying to sound informed is that you dredge up terms like "reparation therapy" without knowing what it is (other than the gay activist web sites call it "bad") and throw it into a post, thinking to impress or insult. Instead, you have just shown me and everyone else reading this post the level of research you've actually done on the subject. Unlike the questionable practice of Reparation Therapy, CBT, Reality Therapy, and Reactive Emotional Therapy has been an effective tool in treating a wide variety of personality disorders, addictions, and even homosexual practices. Though the premise of Reparation Therapy is good in theory, the efforts to put it into practice have suffered from heavy-handedness at the hands of untrained counselors. Perhaps if further study was done, it might have value, but I'm not willing to be one to endorse it for now.
