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For many years now, gay and
lesbian activists have claimed that homosexuality is a trait
possessed by 10% of the population and genetically determined.
They have claimed these things, first, in order to argue
that homosexuality is a natural trait, and second, to ridicule
the notion that gays might "recruit" youth into
their lifestyle. If homosexuality is born, not made, then
gays can only "find" their partners. And a trait
so common would have to be natural and not, therefore, immoral.
However, the activists have
been proven wrong on both counts. The definitive 1995
survey, The Social Organization of Sexuality in America,
proves that gays constitute 1.5 - 3.0% of males, and lesbians
0.75 - 1.5% of females. First, when it comes to behavioral
predispositions, however, roughly 6% of people have a
predisposition to alcoholism; so homosexuality has even
less claim to being "natural." Second, therapeutic
programs have proven at least as successful as Alcoholics
Anonymous, in returning active homosexuals to a normal
heterosexual lifestyle, so that they can often marry and
raise healthy families.
New York psychologist Charles
Socarides NARTH (National Association for the Research
and Therapy of Homosexuality) has been organizing therapists
for over a decade. Using simply secular psychotherapy,
NARTH member Joseph Nicolosi of Los Angeles has racked
up success rates anywhere from 55% (bringing gays into
the "straight" lifestyle) to 80% (suppressing
the person's gay images and impulses). Andy Comiskey's
Christian- based "Rivers of Grace" Program (Los
Angeles) records a 60-65% success rate at bringing gays
into normal life, and 80-90% success in suppressing the
desires. Like alcoholism, the afflicted *person must first
want to be healed.
"Nothing caused me greater
despair than the gay support groups or counsellors who
would all repeat the lie, the lie that I could not change,"
says Calgarian Arthur Hugh, who lived the gay lifestyle
from his early teens until his mid-20s. "I wanted
to get married and have a family; and they kept telling
me that I had to stay the way I was." Some 15 years
ago, after a half-day of intense prayer, Mr. Hugh had
a vision of the blood of Christ washing over him. Since
that day, he has been entirely free of gay images and
impulses. He is now married and a father of four.
Another Chance Ministries
(ACM) in Vancouver enrolls 100 men or women in each of
its two yearly 32-week courses. ACM director Marjorie
Hopper lived for 40 years as a transsexual/homosexual,
and after a number of broken relationships and attempted
suicide, "I turned to God." For the past nine
years she has been providing Christian-based counseling,
support groups and step-by-step programs for people seeking
freedom from homosexuality.
There may actually be more
gays trying to get out of the gay lifestyle, than there
are gay militants trying to promote it. Toronto gay-conservative
and anti-lifestyle activist John McKellar has organized
H.O.P.E. (Homosexuals Opposed to Pride Extremism). And
he estimates that the militants represent less than 2%
of the gay community. If so, there being roughly 500,000
gays in Canada, all the noise is generated by 10,000 of
them.
Why does the government listen?
Less than 10% of women call themselves militant feminists;
and 70% of working mothers want to return to the home,
to care for their children. Yet government listens to
the feminists. Why? Homosexualism and feminism both call
upon the government to extend its social administration
further into private family life. Both are calls for bigger
government, and that's a call government likes to hear.
Ministries
Providing Help for Homosexuals:
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Vancouver: Another
Chance Ministries - (604) 430-4154
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Living Waters Canada
- (604) 301-1470
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Calgary: River of
Grace Ministries - (403) 288-2365
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Edmonton: Flight
Ministries- (403) 421-8283
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Winnipeg: New Directions
- (204) 452-1826
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International: Desert
Streams Ministries - (714) 779-6899
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International: Exodus
International - (415) 454-1017
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