In their groundbreaking 2002 book, A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality (InterVarsity Press), Joseph and Linda Nicolosi argue that homosexuality, contrary to the pseudo-science referenced by gay rights advocates, is not biological.
Homosexuality.
Is it learned or is it biological? Or is it perhaps both?
In their groundbreaking 2002 book, A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality (InterVarsity Press), Joseph and Linda Nicolosi argue that homosexuality, contrary to the pseudo-science referenced by gay rights advocates, is not biological.
They also assert that there are a number of potential developmental roadblocks that can be avoided during the formative years of childhood that will assist parents in keeping their children on the straight pathway.
The book is part of a comprehensive work the Nicolosis carry out through "NARTH"-The National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
In light of an aggressive push for both the normalization and affirmation of gay marriage by an increasingly leftist culture, NARTH seeks to overturn the myths perpetrated by popular commentators that homosexuality is merely an intrinsic, inborn attribute. The organization also treats those entrapped in the lifestyle, offering psychological therapy to homosexual men and women who want to change. NARTH offers many other services, all of which are listed on its website.
With the recent presentation by postmodern talk diva Oprah Winfrey on "transgendered children" (see recent gender-news.com story), NARTH’s work takes on an increased sense of urgency.
"Today, children from kindergarten through college are being taught that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle option with no disadvantages other than society’s disapproval," the NARTH website asserts.
"Sexually confused teenagers are encouraged to investigate homosexual relationships when they are too young to make critical lifestyle decisions. If they seek counseling, they are told that change from homosexuality is impossible. Gender-disturbed children are no longer helped to become more comfortable with their own biological sex, or with the same-sex peers they have been avoiding. Instead, counselors tell their parents, ‘Your child is fine-the only problem is with society.’
"It is NARTH’s aim to provide a different perspective. Particularly, we want to clarify that homosexuality is not ‘inborn,’ and that gays are not ‘a people,’ in the same sense that an ethnic group is ‘a people.’"
Joseph Nicolosi (Ph.D. in psychology) is president of NARTH, which began in 1992. NARTH is boldly countering the claim of the American Psychological Association (APA)-a claim that has become the unquestioned orthodoxy of secular psychologists-that science has "proven" that homosexuality and heterosexuality are qualitatively indistinguishable. Accordingly, the APA in July endorsed both gay marriage and the adoption of children by gay "couples."
"NARTH has responded to the mental-health profession’s refusal to open itself up to socio-political diversity by advocating here for another view of sexuality and gender," NARTH’s purpose statement reads in part.
A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality includes the testimonies of a number of Nicolosi’s patients and is focused on the role of parents in rearing children to hold healthy, normal views of their own gender and sexuality. The work also helps parents to uncover the most significant factors that contribute to children’s healthy sense of their own biological gender identity.
The book is available through the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW).
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