A college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues
UPDATE: The link was changed and the article is still available on the Uganda Media Centre. The following article was posted briefly on the official Uganda Media Centre and then removed late the same day. Here the cache version which won’t last long. I have a saved version as well. It seems quite possible that … Continue reading “Homosexuality: we can still avoid foreign bad press – removed from Ugandan website”
This morning (afternoon there) a coalition of organizations in Uganda released this statement of opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. Anti-Homosexuality or Anti-Human Rights Bill? Statement from the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law Hon. Bahati’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill which was tabled in Parliament on October 14, 2009, and is currently before the … Continue reading “Ugandan coalition speaks out against Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009”
Christianity Today has an article out online today which covers familiar ground to readers here. Written by Bobby Ross, the article notes the divisions over reparative therapy which have been accentuated by the recent APA report on sexual orientation and therapy. No surprise here: Evangelical leaders who advocate gay reparative therapy took umbrage at a … Continue reading “Christianity Today on evangelical divide over reparative therapy”
This morning at the American Psychological Association annual convention, Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse are presenting their Time 6 and final follow up to the study of Exodus participants seeking change of orientation. The paper is titled, Ex Gays? An Extended Longitudinal Study of Attempted Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation. They are presenting these … Continue reading “Jones and Yarhouse Exodus study follow up”
In light of conversations on the Exodus-PFOX thread, I thought it might be good to review a past mainstream media article that brought SIT more into the mainstream conversation. The LA Times article now titled “Approaching agreement in debate over homosexuality” by Stephanie Simon (now with the Wall Street Journal) was published on June 18, … Continue reading “Sexual identity therapy: A blast from the past”