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Virginia Becomes First State in 2015 to Reject Change Therapy Ban

Last week, Metro Weekly reported that HB1135 and its companion Senate bill were voted down in committee, marking the second year that gay activists failed to push through harmful legislation that would remove the rights of minors in to receive therapy for unwanted same-sex attractions.

A few days before the bill was finally defeated, my op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch was published. You can read it below:

Doyle: Don’t Deny Choice of Therapy for Same-Sex Attractions

I’m not a native Virginian, although I’m proud to have called the commonwealth my home for the last 10 years. When I moved to Loudoun County in 2004, I had just graduated from college and was a young professional, seeking to make a name for myself. I was also terribly confused about my sexuality and struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions. Deep down in my soul, however, I knew I was not gay.

But it wasn’t until I formed strong bonds with a church men’s group that I realized I’d been filling the missing pieces of my masculinity in gay sex. At the time, I was very attracted to men, and had no problem finding suitable guys with whom to have casual sexual encounters, but this left me empty. I wanted to be close with my male church friends, and the more we connected, the more my heart healed from the years of rejection with the popular, athletic guys in school.

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Last Year’s Committee Hearing in Richmond, Virginia. HB1135 Was Again Defeated in Committee in 2015.

Later that year, I remember waking up one day and thinking: “My sexual desires for men are not the same as they used to be.” Shortly thereafter, I joined a 12-step group for sexual abuse survivors and began seeing a counselor who helped me understand and heal from the long-term effects of my childhood sexual abuse. By this time, my previous attractions for men had all but vanished, and I started dating a young woman. Eight months later, we married. Soon after, I entered graduate school to study counseling to help others who, like myself, were confused about their sexuality.

After my sexual orientation change, it bothered me to hear repeatedly: “Gay people are born that way — they can’t change.” My experience defied that. I later found many others who also rejected that claim for their lives, worked through unwanted homosexuality and fulfilled their dreams for marriage and family.

I also had that dream — and today, it’s my reality. My wife and I have three beautiful children, and I couldn’t be happier! I also realized my goal of becoming a psychotherapist specializing in working with men struggling with their sexuality. But reality comes with a price. Over the past five years, I have worked with approximately 150 men, a few women and dozens of families struggling with homosexuality. While helping these individuals and families is fulfilling, gay activists increasingly attack our community by attempting to pass legislation prohibiting licensed counselors from helping youth seek change.

Although our movement, #TherapyEquality, helped defeat 14 bills in state legislatures in 2014, gay activists convinced California, New Jersey and Washington to make change therapy illegal. Why? Fear. They are threatened by the fact that not everyone who experiences homosexual feelings desires to embrace a gay identity.

While they promote equality for transgendered youth seeking to change their biological sex, they’re adamantly opposed to those seeking to change their sexual orientation. One hundred years of psychological research published in peer-reviewed journals documents that some individuals can and do experience change from homosexual to heterosexual. But because of the politically incorrect nature of that reality, most readers will never be aware of those scientific facts.

Nor will they be introduced to Nathan (who gave me permission to share his story) from Front Royal. Nathan came to my office two years ago after a string of unsuccessful gay relationships, desperately seeking counsel. Over the course of several months, Nathan came to understand the causes of his homosexuality and began to resolve them. His unwanted same-sex attraction diminished, self-esteem increased and relationships greatly improved. While his journey is far from over, Nathan benefited greatly from the freedom to pursue therapy.

But gay activists are not satisfied to allow clients like Nathan to pursue their own self-determination. They insist that anyone experiencing homosexual feelings is born gay and, therefore, counseling to help them is not only wrong, but harmful. After all, if people are born homosexual, how could they change?

But let’s not lose sight of the facts: In 2008, the American Psychological Association asserted people are not born gay. Therefore, taking away the right of parents and families to make choices about sexuality and mental health counseling is harmful.

Perhaps you support gay rights. Maybe your friend or family member is homosexual. Maybe you are gay. If that’s you, you understand sexuality is complex, and access to diverse mental health counseling helping people navigate these complexities is important. HB1385 is an affront to everyone’s rights, and at a time when we’re expanding equality for all Virginians, this legislation is a step in the wrong direction.

Christopher Doyle lives in Northern Virginia. He is a licensed psychotherapist and the director of the International Healing Foundation. For more information, visit www.ComingOutLoved.com

D.C. Council Passes Reparative Therapy Ban for Minors, Gay Pedophiles Applaud Read

Ex-Gays Seek to File Lawsuit for Sexual Orientation Discrimination
 
Washington, D.C. – Two weeks after the largest gay activist organization in the world, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), had its Co-Founder and Board Member Terry Bean arrested for alleged molestation of a 15 year-old boy, the Washington, D.C. City Counsel brazenly passed a bill to ban Sexual Orientation Change Effort (SOCE) therapy for minors. The council bucked a yearlong trend of 15 states that have failed to pass such legislation in 2014.

“Tuesday’s unanimous decision by the D.C. Council is a victory for gay pedophiles everywhere, but especially in the District,” commented Christopher Doyle, President of Voice of the Voiceless (VoV). “Now that sexually abused and confused minors will no longer have the ability to see a licensed mental health provider in the District to help them reduce unwanted same-sex attractions due to sexual molestation, there will be less reports of sexual abuse by D.C. children, because they will increasingly be indoctrinated by D.C. -based organizations, such as HRC, that they are born gay and may not seek out treatment for their homosexual feelings brought on by pedophiles such as HRC’s Terry Bean.”

Gay activists sponsoring the D.C. bill repeatedly pushed the idea that SOCE therapy was harmful, even though the American Psychological Association admits there is no such evidence beyond anecdotal claims. Additional testimony from Rikin S. Mehta, senior deputy director of the D.C. Department of Health, admitted there was no record of complaints against SOCE therapists. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by VoV also confirmed that a single complaint from a minor against a therapist trying to coerce them into changing sexual orientation has never once been filed in the District.

While recent laws in California and New Jersey to ban SOCE therapy have not been overturned in Federal court, VoV will support a lawsuit being filed in the District on grounds of sexual orientation discrimination, since Washington, D.C. is the only jurisdiction in the country that recognizes former homosexuals or ex-gays as a protected class against discrimination, according to the D.C. Human Rights Act.

“Despite the outrageous claims of gay activists in the District, SOCE therapy is not abusive, it is talk therapy. Therapists do not use electroshock techniques, such was testified by Transgender activist Brielle Goldani in New Jersey, and later debunked, nor do they insert needles on the hands of clients, which was recently claimed by Samuel Brinton, who still has refused to verify the details of the so-called ‘torture’ he alleges,” commented Doyle. “The real torture that is occurring is a life-time of hopelessness that a sexually abused child will have to undergo after they are raped by the likes of HRC’s Terry Bean. No wonder HRC was one of the key supporters of this bill. Their headquarters are in Washington, D.C. and they need to ensure access to as many young boys as possible to keep their leadership satiated. Now we have a better idea as to what Terry Bean may have been doing for those ten hours per week that he is listed as ‘serving’ on HRC’s Board of Directors, according to their latest non-profit filing,” commented Doyle.

Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/12/05/d-c-council-passes-reparative-therapy-ban-minors-gay-pedophiles-applaud/

Ex-Gays Call on Human Rights Campaign to Fund Reparative Therapy for HRC’s Alleged Pedophile Founder and His Child Victim

 

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has been one of the most outspoken proponents in the effort to ban Sexual Orientation Change Effort (SOCE) therapy for minors. They have aided gay activist organizations in California and New Jersey who successfully passed laws to ban SOCE therapy in 2012-2013, and have undoubtedly played a role in the sixteen bills that were introduced in state legislatures across the United States in 2014, fourteen of which already failed this year thanks in part to the #TherapyEquality campaign of Voice of the Voiceless (VoV).

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HRC Founder and current member of the Board of Directors, Terrence Bean, shaking President Obama’s hand. Photo courtesy of Barbwire.com

But now we have more insight as to why HRC and other gay activists don’t want their victims to have access to SOCE therapy. On Wednesday, detectives from the Portland police Sex Crimes Unit arrested 66 year-old Terrence Patrick Bean, Founder  of the Human Rights Campaign and current member of their Board of Directors, on two counts of third-degree sodomy, a felony, and one count of third-degree sex abuse, a misdemeanor. His victim was a 15 year-old boy.

“It is outrageous and tragic that the Founder of the largest gay activist organization in the world is molesting boys, while at the same time their leadership is pushing for laws across the United States to keep those same boys out of the counseling office to heal trauma at the hands of homosexual pedophiles,” commented Christopher Doyle, Co-Founder and President of VoV. “In light of these serious allegations, we are calling on HRC to donate a considerable amount of funding in their 2015 budget to fund Reparative Therapy (or whatever preferred SOCE therapy of their choosing) for their pedophile Founder, and his victim. VoV will work with HRC to locate appropriate, highly qualified licensed counselors that are trained in advanced therapeutic techniques to heal trauma for the victim.”

In 2013, VoV named the New Jersey SOCE therapy ban law the “Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act” because it would essentially prohibit sexually abused boys from pursuing counseling to heal trauma from molestation and sort out confusion in their sexual orientation that may result from the abuse. VoV also warned that should this option for counseling be prohibited, fewer pedophiles would be reported by licensed counselors, because sexually confused adolescents might not understand that their sexual orientation confusion may be the result of molestation, and simply believe the lie that they were born gay and not seek out SOCE therapy to change. Through a myriad of lies and false testimony presented in New Jersey, that bill was passed and signed into law.

“How many more children will have to be molested before America realizes the damage being inflicted by HRC and other gay activists,” commented Doyle. “Instead of trying to keep sexually abused and confused children out of the counseling office, HRC and their allies need to take a hard look in the mirror at their tactics to secure ‘equality’ and stop using innocent, sexually confused children as pawns in their political agenda.”

For more information on VoV’s #TherapyEquality campaign to protect therapy rights for sexually abused and confused children, visit: www.VoiceoftheVoiceless.info

Voice of the Voiceless is the only anti-defamation league for former homosexuals, individuals with unwanted same-sex attractions, and their families.

 

New Genetic Study on Homosexuality Repeats Old, Unproven Theory – With Your Tax Dollars!

Media outlets are flush with the rush to promote yet another inconclusive hypothesis attempting to tie biological factors to the penchant for homosexual behavior. After an unusual 7 year tweaking before release, Dr. Alan Sanders of NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute et al, compared the genes of 409 gay twin brothers (the largest twin sampling to date). The team argues that they found linkages to the X Chromosome 8 region and Xq28 but were unable to cite any actual gene. This runs contrary to the conclusions of eight other international twin studies examining the same notion[2]with the exception of Dr. Dean Hamer’s claim to find Chromosome 8 involvement 20 years ago but also failing to find any actual gene.

DNA spiral model on black background (done in 3d)The inability to find and verify gene involvement makes the entire exercise of identifying linkages fruitless since there can be no linkage between non-existent entities. This leaves wide open the interpretation of what these researchers are seeing within these chromosome bands. Sanders himself describes his results as, “not proof but a pretty good indication.” An indication of what remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the reaction by genetic experts ranges from skeptical to completely dismissive. Dr. Robert Green, medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School called the study, “intriguing but not in any way conclusive” and Dr. Neil Risch, genetics expert at UC San Francisco states the data is too statistically weak to suggest any linkage (with homosexual preference.)[3]

Of bizarre concern is Sander’s use of a deprecated genetic method. Genetic linkages have been replaced with GWA (genome-wide association) methodology in genetic science which gives a higher, but still not guaranteed, association between a given gene and a behavior. Sanders admitted it would have been the preferable approach but it was the only way to try to expound on Hamer’s failed attempt 20 years ago. Ken Kendler, an editor at Psychological Medicine admitted it was a surprise to see Sanders submit a study using the old technique and Sanders admits that one publication turned down his submission outright.[4] Sanders has announced his intention of a GWA study using an even larger sample group.

It is the opinion of most in the ex-gay community that scientific research would be better utilized addressing the knowns of same-sex attraction, such as the high child sexual abuse and childhood trauma histories found in research which is more results oriented by healing traumas that often lead to same-sex attractions and therapies that eliminate unwanted same-sex attraction. This more appropriately achieves the goals of the American Psychological Association’s vow to patient self-determination. Much like the already proven genetic components of depression and anxiety disorders, genetic involvement only contributes to predilection and has no bearing at all on outcomes. Thus, any genetic discovery while interesting is irrelevant to ultimate behavioral self-management and choice.

John Ozanich is an Advisory Board member of Voice of the Voiceless and a former United States Marine Corps Anti-Terrorism Strike Team member. An ordained minister, John authors articles on religious history, constitutional issues, science, and religion.He has been awarded the IBM Authorship Award. He is a an award winning professional computer network design architect and I/T project manager who has worked for a variety of Fortune 500 companies.