Homosexual campaign to suppress book on healing same-sex attraction backfires
January 11, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A campaign waged by homosexuals in Spain to suppress a book about reparative therapy for homosexuality has backfired, generating media coverage that has drawn new attention to the formerly ignored work. As a result, the publisher says that it has been overwhelmed by requests for the book and is now in the process of printing 7,000 more copies. “Understanding and Healing Homosexuality,” which has been available since 2004 in Spanish , became the object of protest in Spain in December when the book was republished by Libros Libres and the new edition appeared in the catalogs of such online booksellers as Amazon, La Casa del Libro (the House of Books), and La Corte Inglés (The English Court). The book, written by therapist Richard Cohen , discusses Cohen’s own liberation from homosexual attraction, what he regards as the principal causes of the problem, and methods for bringing about the healing of same-sex desires. The appearance of the new ed...