Did Joseph Nicolosi?
why would it need defending?Q
You're not very good at defending 'gay' affirmation therapy ...Dante.
You're the one posting "studies" from Paul Cameron and his ilk.Maybe the pro LGBTQueer American Psychological Association has some kind of bogus study that you can copy and paste showing that those who 'embrace' their homosexuality really aren't prone to the diseases that all homosexuals are prone to and that the people who attend the Metropolitan Community Church and their rainbow flags are welcomed in Heaven?
I'm sure LaBarbera praised him left and right for his part in untold numbers of suicides.Regarding the late great Joseph Nicolosi:
AFTAH's Peter LaBarbera wrote a nice article about Dr. Nicolosi on Lifesite News:
If there are thousands, how come no one can find any of them? When Robert Spitzer went looking for ex-gays to interview he couldn't find any so he went to ex-gay organizations but they couldn't either. Joseph Nicolosi only sent him employees of NARTH, people who earned a living by claiming they were ex-gay.Feel free to contact the thousands that are still alive because of Dr. Nicolosi's compassion ...Dante, but please be nice to them, as they've been subjected to enough hatred already by the LGBTQ movement.
I'll make a prediction:Speaking of 'gay' affirmation therapy (it's for 10 year olds and their nosey parents don't need to know about it) :
LGBT movement’s other goal: Lower age of consent to 10 years old for psychiatric therapy – without parents’ knowledge or consent!
Outrageous bill passed House Committee in Colorado Legislature on Tuesday - despite strong testimony by Colorado MassResistance and others. But the fight is just beginning!
Similar laws already passed in states across America.
April 20, 2017
Fresh from the recent victory stopping the LGBT movement’s “anti-therapy†bill in the Colorado Legislature, pro-family people are up against an equally frightening bill that has been filed and just passed its first hurdle toward becoming law. It’s the latest among similar laws that are being quietly passed across the country.
The LGBT lobby is quietly but forcefully pushing for laws to allow children as young as 10 years old to “decide†they need psychiatric therapy – without their parents’ knowledge or consent. LGBT-allied “therapists†could push vulnerable children to affirm and accept homosexual and transgender “identity†and behaviors as “normal.â€
This has terrifying implications for parents and families. Children are emotionally defenseless and can easily be persuaded by adults that they need this “help†from unknown, agenda-driven mental health professionals.
...This scheme dovetails with the other, more public LGBT campaign in state legislatures across America to ban counseling and therapy for children who have unwanted homosexual or transgender feelings – but would allow therapy to affirm homosexuality or transgenderism. Sadly, such a ban would be particularly devastating to children who have been sexually molested.
The scare tactic: “suicide preventionâ€
To persuade legislators that these laws are necessary, the proponents focus on “suicide prevention.†They make emotional claims that many young children are suicidal, cannot talk to their parents about it, and unless professional intervention happens the children will kill or horribly injure themselves.
“Suicide prevention†has been a lobbying tactic used by the LGBT movement for decades to push for a wide range of programs and funding. This broad claim has little scientific basis and usually depends on blatantly unscientific school surveys such as the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey. But sadly, most legislators are not informed enough to see through that. So too often, it works.
(Of course, it is true that psychological problems are far more prevalent among “LGBT-identifying†children. That’s because these behaviors are usually a symptom of earlier trauma, molestation, or other issues. So while these children may need psychological counseling, it must be done with non-activist professionals and parental oversight.)
California led the way for the radicals
In 2010 California passed the Mental Health Services for At-Risk Youth Act (SB 543), signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, which lowered the age of consent to 12. The law was heavily lobbied by Equality California and other LGBT groups.
Read more: http://massresistance.org/docs/gen3/17b/MC-CO-vs-age-of-consent-therapy/index.html
Bill's sponsor testifies at committee hearing as pro-LGBT "anti-suicide" activists behind her prepare to testify.[MassResistance photo.]
I'll make a prediction:
If this becomes allowed, there will be a significant increase in the number of child suicide rates in the years following it.
He's an expert on the Bible and how things like homosexuality are so..."Old Testament".
A thought that may interest you, people resist most what they fear, and especially those things that damage their ego, gore the ox of their pursuit of their own pleasure. If you have some clinical knowledge or have been observant, some of the worst people are scared people, with delicate egos. They even lash out, at the drop of a hat.
With the homosexual, it’s not really a rights matter in our day, for instance this so-called myth of gay marriage. They had civil unions. Being queer has long been tasked as something, as if, cutsie by Hollywood, for many years, like fodder for situation comedies that make sin a laughing matter. I was part of groups of people with some known homosexuals at the party, when a youth, and nobody even gave them any grief. The real issue is the shining light. They need society to declare them married, inside the church, this the sort of goal they seek, to try and kill that nagging conscience, with its fear, to the point they'll blame you for reminding them.
They don’t demand just rights, they are trying to demand you like them, approve of them, don’t like the light of God’s word that exposes sin. They don't even want to be looked at sideways, lest they cry. They love their sin and need for you to love it, that is love them, too, and I mean "love" in a false way that positively reinforces their sin, says, “I’m okay, you’re okay, we’re all God’s children, and pass the crack pipe.” Hence, Romans 1 is so Old Testament, when it’s New Testament. Go figure.
They are never going to be happy, as long as anybody is saying, hold on a minute, God said... They would edit, censor your Bible, were it possible.
The why is squarely in these verses:
John 3
19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
The same can be said for easy believism, the concept of cheap grace that extends into lawlessness and unrepentance: people of such Christian cult beliefs are also beside themselves, when confronted with truths that shine a light on their sin and false religion, fills them with anger. It's an epidemic, right here on TOL. Quite simply, God, on His terms, is much too scary to many people, who are too frightened to give up control, that Peanuts blanket religion that puts them in the driver's seat, to continue a reprobate, heaven forbid actually repenting and becoming the new creature the Bible spends so much real estate describing we must be, if we have the Spirit.
Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
You have just detailed the exact reason why there is a Hell. People who hate God would kill or destroy God to vindicate themselves in their sin. They would rather God die than for them to be wrong, which is why repentance is so important. For someone to repent of their sins means that God can accept them into His presence because of Christ's sacrifice. If they don't repent however, being with God would literally be worse than God sending them to Hell, to be separated from Him for all of eternity.
But, whatever God in His wisdom ordained, you're right, that there is no place in the kingdom of heaven for the unrepentant. Integral to repentance is agreement with God as to the issues, agree on all things to the extent possible to understand, as He is truth.
this is why false preachers and false churches are so pernicious - those who tell their followers that sin is not sin
I'll make a prediction:
If this becomes allowed, there will be a significant increase in the number of child suicide rates in the years following it.
Why what?Why?
I have a new fan in another thread and it appears that he's too shy to come over here and put me in my place.
He's an expert on the Bible and how things like homosexuality are so..."Old Testament".
Is there any chance that TOL's rainbow club could coax eider to come over here and show the 200-300 people that follow this thread on a daily basis how wrong I've been about homosexuality?
I left our discussion here:
http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?114938-Trump-Is-A-Knob&p=4999363&viewfull=1#post4999363
eider:
https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances...down-youre-the-next-contestant-to-beowned.jpg
When people love themselves they might be overbearing about how great they are. On the other hand, when people hate themselves they take what they hate about themselves are project it. This was true with 'just tom' who only trusted 'gay studies' yet hated all the gays
A thought that may interest you, people resist most what they fear, and especially those things that damage their ego, gore the ox of their pursuit of their own pleasure. If you have some clinical knowledge or have been observant, some of the worst people are scared people, with delicate egos. They even lash out, at the drop of a hat...