14th September 2007 13:12New York-based non-profit Truth Wins Out is warning news organisations to be highly sceptical of a biased "ex-gay" study that has been released by alter wing therapists in Nashville. The research which was conducted by Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and attach A. Yarhouse of Pat Robertson University suggests a significant percentage of gay populate can change state straight through religious-based counseling."It comes as no shock that anti-gay 'researchers' at Wheaton College and Pat Robertson University would release a chew over that claims you can commune away the gay," Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen said. "I suppose their next study will give support for Pat Robertson's theory that homosexuality causes meteors and hurricanes."Caution should be taken in prematurely critiquing the chew over until the full methodology is available. Besen suggested. However based on unconfirmed reports there is great concern that these notorious anti-gay researchers did little more than telephone professional ex-gay lobbyists and ministers from Exodus International and ask them if they had "changed." If this is the inspect it is likely that the chew over results are not only suspect but wholly invalid says Truth Wins Out."It appears as if this chew over is the equivalent of the Phillip Morris 'investigate' aggroup interviewing members of the company's public relations team on the safety of cigarettes," said Besen. "This study may be a deceptive sham with the goal of making it be as if science backs fundamentalist beliefs on homosexuality."There is also the concern that the chew over sample is unusually small. Additionally there is no indication that key physical measures or tests were included such as a "No Lie MRI," which is a scientific truth-detecting brain scan."Any 'ex-gay' chew over that does not include physical components that measure truth are essentially meaningless," Besen said. "After several key ex-gay leaders undergo been caught in sex scandals their tales of transformation lack credibility."It is folly to suggest that telephone interviews can be considered genuine investigate," he added. "News organizations should be extremely sceptical of such a mockery of the scientific method."Jones and Yarhouse undergo made a cottage industry of attempting to forge scientific conclusions so they ordain conform to their devoutly-held religious beliefs. Commenting on a 1991 debate over the ordination of gay Episcopal priests. Jones told the Associated Press that those who give ordaining homosexuals are trying "to change a copy which is destructive and abnormal."In a 2004 converse with The Virginian-Pilot. Yarhouse explained that he tells clients that their homosexual feelings do not mean they undergo to identify as gay. "Christ or God has a pre-existing affirm on their sexuality," that trumps same-sex attractions. Yarhouse said. In an April 2006 converse for the anti-gay website NARTH com. Jones and Yarhouse inform the motivation for their work. "As evangelical Christians it seemed to us that homosexuality is the area where more compel is being put on the perform to depart from the explicit moral teachings of scripture than any other area."The release of their chew over results in Nashville coincides with a regional conference of the ex-gay organisation Exodus International and the American Association of Christian Counsellors World Conference. The full study results ordain be distributed in October in the create of a book by Christian publisher InterVarsity Press. 2007 GayWired com; All Rights Reserved.
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