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Title: Groundbreaking Study Affirms “Gays” Can Change
Post by: Hazumu on October 21, 2007, 12:00:02 PM
Post by: Hazumu on October 21, 2007, 12:00:02 PM
A new study may have just hammered the final nail in the mythical "born 'gay' and stuck that way" coffin.
By J. Matt Barber
Concerned Women for America (http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=13871&department=CFI&categoryid=family)
"For purposes of protecting individuals belonging to an identifiable group against discrimination, the Supreme Court has devised a three-part test. To qualify for protected "suspect minority classification," any given group must possess immutable characteristics (unchangeable, like skin color). The fact that homosexuals can change, as this study has reaffirmed, would disqualify them as a suspect minority class under that test alone. However, a suspect minority class must also share both a history of discrimination and political powerlessness to qualify. Again, self-identified homosexuals fail both tests. In fact, rather than suffering from political powerlessness, the homosexual lobby happens to be one of the most powerful and well-funded lobbies in the world per capita.
The study's findings will be detailed in Yarhouse and Jones' book, "Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation," which is expected to hit bookshelves soon. "
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...So THAT's why they're going on and on about 'immutable characteristics'...
Karen
By J. Matt Barber
Concerned Women for America (http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=13871&department=CFI&categoryid=family)
"For purposes of protecting individuals belonging to an identifiable group against discrimination, the Supreme Court has devised a three-part test. To qualify for protected "suspect minority classification," any given group must possess immutable characteristics (unchangeable, like skin color). The fact that homosexuals can change, as this study has reaffirmed, would disqualify them as a suspect minority class under that test alone. However, a suspect minority class must also share both a history of discrimination and political powerlessness to qualify. Again, self-identified homosexuals fail both tests. In fact, rather than suffering from political powerlessness, the homosexual lobby happens to be one of the most powerful and well-funded lobbies in the world per capita.
The study's findings will be detailed in Yarhouse and Jones' book, "Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation," which is expected to hit bookshelves soon. "
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...So THAT's why they're going on and on about 'immutable characteristics'...
Karen
Title: Re: Groundbreaking Study Affirms “Gays” Can Change
Post by: Keira on October 21, 2007, 03:18:56 PM
Post by: Keira on October 21, 2007, 03:18:56 PM
This is so dumb. No one even knows if being gay is linked to no genes, one gene, several genes, is linked to environmental effects in the womb or mother (the fact that younger brothers are more likely to by gay seems to say so) or nurture, or combination of all these.
What if there was 1000 different multi-factorial predispositions to being gay at various, are all them mutable... This study is no study at all because it relies on an unknowable premise.
There's also the whole Kinsey scale thing, aren't bis by definition mutable in time! Maybe all gays are bis ;)
What if there was 1000 different multi-factorial predispositions to being gay at various, are all them mutable... This study is no study at all because it relies on an unknowable premise.
There's also the whole Kinsey scale thing, aren't bis by definition mutable in time! Maybe all gays are bis ;)
Title: Re: Groundbreaking Study Affirms “Gays” Can Change
Post by: Incubi on October 21, 2007, 03:26:22 PM
Post by: Incubi on October 21, 2007, 03:26:22 PM
Quote from: Keira on October 21, 2007, 03:18:56 PMMaybe all gays are bis ;)And all straights as well, of course.
But such statements and "studies" are just so very very sad and stupid.
Title: Re: Groundbreaking Study Affirms “Gays” Can Change
Post by: HelenW on October 21, 2007, 03:27:42 PM
Post by: HelenW on October 21, 2007, 03:27:42 PM
Ah, I see . . . Christianity, a religion, is an immutable characteristic and that's why they've been legally protected from discrimination. Besides, it's obvious that they are "politically powerless."
*sigh*
The dishonesty and blatant hypocrasy of these people is what turns me off the most. >:(
Emelye
*sigh*
The dishonesty and blatant hypocrasy of these people is what turns me off the most. >:(
Emelye
Title: Re: Groundbreaking Study Affirms “Gays” Can Change
Post by: LostInTime on October 21, 2007, 04:59:57 PM
Post by: LostInTime on October 21, 2007, 04:59:57 PM
If this is the study I am thinking about, there are big enough holes in it to drive several Mac trucks through, side by side.