Can a homosexual orientation be changed?
• [H]omosexuality is not an illness. It does not require treatment and is not changeable. American Psychological Association, Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality, July 1998 • There is no published scientific evidence supporting the efficacy of reparative therapy as a treatment to change ones sexual orientation… American Psychiatric Association, Statement, Dec. 11, 1998 • [We] oppose any psychiatric treatment, such as reparative or conversion therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based on the a priori assumption that the patient should change his/her homosexual orientation. American Medical Association, Resolution, 2000 • [I]t seems appropriate to understand sexual orientation (heterosexual or homosexual) as a deep-seated dimension of ones personality and to recognize its relative stability in a person. Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pa
