August 11, 2006: On the occassion of the annual meeting of the Tragically Repressed Self-Hating Hatemongers, I mean, of the North American Association to Treat Homosexuality (NARTH), the American Psychiatric Association issued this repudiation of NARTH’s sick agenda:

“For over three decades the consensus of the mental health community has been that homosexuality is not an illness and therefore not in need of a cure. The APA’s concern about the positions espoused by NARTH and so-called conversation therapy is that they are not supported by the science. There is simply no sufficiently scientifically sound evidence that sexual orientation can be changed. Our further concern is that the positions espoused by NARTH and Focus on the Family create an environment in which prejudice and discrimination can flourish.”

You go, psychiatrists! This came from Truth Wins Out, which does an excellent job documenting the excesses of the “ex-gay” movement.

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