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There is a movement to crush those who offer therapy to persons struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction .  What are your thoughts as to why there is such opposition to this kind of therapy? Sciambra:  There is opposition to gay- reparative therapy because [born-this-way gay advocates] know deep-down that it works. Very good reparative therapy excavates the root causes which brought forth homosexual desires in the person. For the most part, these incidents are embedded in early-childhood traumas. When a therapist is able to dig down and reveal these traumas, they no longer have the same power over the person that they once did. At that point, relationships can be mended and new healthy friendships can be fostered.  Related articles WATCH: Right-Wing 'Documentary' Tries to Defend 'Ex-Gay' Therapy (advocate.com) From gay porn star to redeemed brother in Christ (deaconforlife.blogspot.com) Loose your child if taken to homosexual reparative therapy? (g

A federal judge has ruled that a New Jersey law barring therapists from trying to eliminate homosexual urges in children does not violate therapists’ freedom of speech or religion. Two New Jersey-based therapists, along with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and the American Association of Christian Counselors , had sued to block the law’s enforcement, arguing that that it violates therapists’ free speech rights by prohibiting them from offering their minor patients reparative therapy designed to help them overcome unwanted same-sex attraction .  Two New Jersey-based therapists had sued to block the law’s enforcement, arguing that that it violates therapists’ free speech rights. But on Friday, Judge Freda L. Wolfson   dismissed  the therapists’ case, claiming that the ban “on its face does not target speech, and ‘counseling’ is not entitled to special constitutional protection merely because it is primarily carried out through talk therapy

TRENTON , NJ, July 19, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has given an uncertain answer about whether he will sign a statewide bill that would not only ban therapists from helping minors who are struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction but could cost parents who seek such help from pastoral counselors to lose custody of their children. The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is calling on citizens to contact Governor Christie and ask him to veto the bill, which was passed by the state legislature last month. If signed into law, the legislation would bar counselors from providing minors with reparative therapy , which seeks to help people overcome sexual attractions to members of the same sex and move toward developing healthy relationships with the opposite sex. It is similar to a ban that was recently passed in California , but  temporarily blocked  by a federal judge on the grounds that it may violate