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  1. Reparative therapists
    claim to be trying to help people who are strugling with the same sex attractions.
    But instead it hurts because it promotes the view that people with same-sex attractions can really be “cured” or transformed into heterosexuals. The problem with this is that this is really just an illusion and not true.
    http://bit.ly/Jck4ZV
    All research is suggesting that people change their behavior and their values. There is no indication that the very basic desires to change as the result of the therapy.
    There are studies that show that most people who undergo this therapy have a loss in their mental health.

    The same people who would be willing to waive the prohibited behavior, often also would love to believe that they can actually “convert” not only the lifestyle, but the real attractions completely. They end up discovering years later that this approach is not the case and are devastated. This results in some cases of suicide and leaving the faith.

    Besides all the mainstream psychiatric, psychological work, social, the World Health Organization advisory groups and even many experts among people who have been involved in “reparative therapy” mostly agree with that. Does not work in shifting the focus.

    According to those who believe such conversions, the success rate is about 0.4%
    http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_exod1.htm

    Warren Throckmorton, a psychologist and professor at the evangelical Grove City College recently surveyed 239 men in the “mixed orientation marriages” in which her husband is attracted to other men and women is heterosexual. About half of the males had been through a conversion therapy.

    Throughout their marriage, men, “same sex attractions increased …” and “attractions for your spouse declined,” according to Throckmorton.

    Another study by Mark Yarhouse, a researcher at Regent University – which was founded by Pat Robertson – reached the same conclusion.

    The leader of the Exodus, the largest audience of people (thousands) that changed from a gay to the heterosexual lifestyle admits that this does not include the end of same-sex attraction for 99.9% of the group.
    “There was a change in our beliefs about therapy focused change orientation and do not believe that it is effective.”

    Dr. Spitzer
    “If people can recognize that being gay is something that can not be changed and that efforts to change will be disappointing and may be harmful if it can be more widely known it would be great.”

    Without clear evidence that a treatment is effective it can not in good conscience, recommend an unproven treatment that can cause undo pain, suffering and death