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LONDON , February 19, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – While pressure continues at  the international level  to prohibit psychotherapists from offering help to those wanting to overcome same-sex attraction , a Canadian therapist has told a British audience that such bans are “unethical.” A debate, billed as a discussion on the “legitimacy and freedom to offer sexual reorientation,” was held at Westminster in late January organized by Christian Concern and Core Issues Trust ahead of a debate in the House of Commons on the government’s “gay marriage” bill. Dr. Joseph Berger, a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Canada, and a practitioner of “change therapy,” attended the debate and said it “absolutely horrifies” him that some professional therapy organizations in Britain are attempting to prohibit therapists from offering it. “There should be absolutely no ban on any such treatment. In fact, I consider it unethical to propose such bans,” Berger said.

Last week in Parliament a meeting was held where four leading figures engaged in a lively debate on therapy for those with unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction. The debate focussed on the legitimacy of, and freedom to offer, ‘change therapy’ (more accurately SOCEs - sexual orientation change efforts ), which is aimed at altering the strength and direction of sexual feelings. Dr Michael Davidson of CORE Issues (who is about to undergo a disciplinary procedure for using it) and Canadian psychiatrist Dr Joseph Berger (who uses it regularly) were supporting change therapy. Psychiatrist Professor Michael King (who is its most vehement critic) and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell were against it. Although members of the mainstream press were present the debate has so far been reported only by  Christian Concern ,  Pink News  and  Gay Star News . Tatchell and King essentially argued that homosexual orientation was biologically caused and fixed, that change was impossible and tha

September 24, 2012 ( pjSaunders ) - Should people with unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction seek professional help? And if so what kind of help and what expectations should they realistically have? BBC Religion and Ethics recently published an article on this extremely controversial subject titled ‘ Ex-gay survivor’s tales of exorcism in middle England ’. I was asked to submit a quote for it yesterday but was unable to obtain any information about what angle the author would be writing it from. So I sent in four carefully drafted sentences of which they used only the one that most closely fitted with their agenda. The article relates the story of Peterson Toscano , who ‘after $30,000 for controversial conversion therapy, three attempts at exorcism and one failed marriage, finally resolved the conflict between his faith and sexuality - he was gay’. At the end there are some comments from Peter Ould and myself (see Peter’s take  here ). Toscano’s case highlights th

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Human rights activist Peter Tatchell (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Peter Tatchell , one of Britain’s most vocal advocates of the homosexualist political movement, has admitted that sufferers of same-sex attraction are neither “born with” nor stuck with the condition. Much of the argument upon which the promotion of homosexuality as a “legitimate  lifestyle choice ” is founded is the paradoxical assertion that it is not a choice at all, but a fixed state of being, probably determined by genes. This is the basis of the claim that opposition to  homosexual activity  is “ homophobia ” and tantamount to racism. But Tatchell, writing in an article in the  Huffington Post , titled, “Future Sex: Beyond Gay and  Straight ,” cited the notorious  Alfred Kinsey , the researcher often called the grandfather of the sexual revolution, denying that “gay and straight” are distinct categories. Kinsey’s research, Tatchell said, “was the first major statistical evidence that gay and straight are not water

Photograph supplied by Peter Tatchell for publicity use. Peter said to uploader Kaihsu Tai: “I would like to replace the terrible main photo with the one attached. Can you do this?” (2007-10-23) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Peter Tatchell , one of Britain’s most vocal advocates of the homosexualist political movement, has admitted that sufferers of same-sex attraction are neither “born with” nor stuck with the condition. Much of the argument upon which the promotion of homosexuality as a “legitimate  lifestyle choice ” is founded is the paradoxical assertion that it is not a choice at all, but a fixed state of being, probably determined by genes. This is the basis of the claim that opposition to  homosexual activity  is “ homophobia ” and tantamount to racism. But Tatchell, writing last month in an article in the  Huffington Post , titled, “Future Sex: Beyond Gay and  Straight ,” cited the notorious  Alfred Kinsey , the researcher often called the grandfather of the sexual revolution, d

David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROME, March 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Already stinging from criticisms that he has caved to an overbearing, anti-democratic European Union , UK Prime Minister David Cameron has initiated a sudden push for “gay marriage” in an effort to preempt a European court ruling that would likely declare the UK ’s current marriage laws discriminatory, according to Nigel Farage , the leader of the UK’s leading libertarian Eurosceptic party, UKIP . “In the 12 years I’ve been an MEP I have received a lorry load of communication from constituents, asking me to support this and oppose that,” Farage wrote this weekend in the Daily Express , “but never in all that time has anyone ever asked him either to support or oppose ‘gay marriage.’” “Of course, stupid me,” Farage wrote, “Why didn’t I think of that? There just had to be a European angle.” Farage described an unexpected meeting in Brussels with leading UK