Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality’s (JONAH) co-founders, Arthur Abba Goldberg and Elaine Berk, have no scientific training, yet they often pretend to be experts.
Truth Wins Out asked two legitimate researchers — Dr. Mark Breedlove and Dr. Dennis McFadden — to review JONAH’s latest “ex-gay” video that the group shows to its new clients.
They were not impressed with Abba Goldberg or Berk’s grasp of science. They also were quite skeptical on JONAH’s claim to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals.
Where is the gene or genome for heterosexuality? Why haven’t we found it? Does it exist?
I love the way Dr. McFadden speaks of “Heterosexual” contra “Non-Heterosexual”, way to get us Bisexuals, the Asexuals and all the other lovable variations on sexuality in there! It also singles out Heterosexuality the way it feels like the bigots single out Homosexuality, not as one of many, but the one stark contrast…
Check out Dr Breedlove’s latest project producing a documentary on the biological influences of sexual orientation: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marcbreedlove/whom-you-love-the-biology-of-sexual-orientation-re
Hello Swedish Chef, I interpreted the “hetero vs non-hetero” comment slightly differently. I think that bi/asexuality could be filed in the “non-hetero” category. I didn’t read the statement as binary.
BTDubs, I never understood why you have a muppet face but human hands. What’s up with that?
I am often amazed at how much time and money is spent by right-wing wackos in the ‘research’ of sexuality, and the obsession about sex, especially gay sex. Imagine the wonders that could be accomplished if all that thought energy about what others do sexually could be harnessed for something useful, like thinking up ways to clean the planet, or travel to other planets and star systems.
Ignorance is a terrible thing We are not gay through choice but make the best of it. People like Goldburg and Berk are just cashing in as they know there are lots of gals and guys who would change their feelings if they could.Being gay does not make us bad or any less human.
The Catholic Church in the 1960s issued a pastoral letter to all US Catholics that said,in effect, that while God made some people Gay, that they should be welcomed into the church community, and not shunned, denied the sacraments, or outcast. It did not say that homosexual acts were moral but it did not authorize priests or bishops to deny them the full range of benefits of being Catholics.