Herbwoman39
Nov 9, 2006, 9:23 PM
I am cross-posting this for any of you in the Orlando, FL area. I'm going and i urge as many of you as possible to attend as well.
JOIN US TO PROTEST ANTI-GAY CONVENTION
"NARTH" Advocates Bullying of LGBT Students, Justifies Slavery
Join Equality Florida, Truth Wins Out and a coalition of anti-bigotry groups in Orlando to protest the annual convention of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). The theme of the press conference will be "Countering the Quacks" and will feature large inflatable ducks, duck whistles and a Donald Duck character.
NARTH supports so-called conversion therapy and lobbies the American Psychiatric Association to re-label gay people mentally ill. The organization is also embroiled in two major controversies. In the first, a NARTH doctor wrote an essay that supports ridiculing gender variant children in school so they conform. In the second controversy, a NARTH leader justifies slavery in a recently published article. As a result of the slavery remarks, two NARTH presenters refused to speak at this conference.
WHERE: Saturday, November 11 at 12 noon
WHEN: Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel (5445 Forbes Plaza)
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: NARTH's leader, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, has said there "are no gay people, just heterosexuals with a homosexual problem." He says factors in the causation of homosexuality include "fear of tall bridges" a "phobia of the phone" and once claimed that gay men are more likely to be "pee shy." He has encouraged his clients to become more masculine by drinking Gatorade and calling friends "dude." Even more ludicrous is Nicolosi's notion that, "non-homosexual men who experience defeat and failure may also experience homosexual fantasies or dreams."
The organization's methods are so peculiar and bizarre that the American Psychological Association specifically condemned NARTH by name at the APA's annual convention in August.
"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 position's espoused by the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and so-called conversion 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."
Contact: Wayne Besen,
Phone: 917-691-5118
E-Mail: wbesen@TruthWinsOut.org
Web: www.TruthWinsOut.org
JOIN US TO PROTEST ANTI-GAY CONVENTION
"NARTH" Advocates Bullying of LGBT Students, Justifies Slavery
Join Equality Florida, Truth Wins Out and a coalition of anti-bigotry groups in Orlando to protest the annual convention of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). The theme of the press conference will be "Countering the Quacks" and will feature large inflatable ducks, duck whistles and a Donald Duck character.
NARTH supports so-called conversion therapy and lobbies the American Psychiatric Association to re-label gay people mentally ill. The organization is also embroiled in two major controversies. In the first, a NARTH doctor wrote an essay that supports ridiculing gender variant children in school so they conform. In the second controversy, a NARTH leader justifies slavery in a recently published article. As a result of the slavery remarks, two NARTH presenters refused to speak at this conference.
WHERE: Saturday, November 11 at 12 noon
WHEN: Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel (5445 Forbes Plaza)
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: NARTH's leader, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, has said there "are no gay people, just heterosexuals with a homosexual problem." He says factors in the causation of homosexuality include "fear of tall bridges" a "phobia of the phone" and once claimed that gay men are more likely to be "pee shy." He has encouraged his clients to become more masculine by drinking Gatorade and calling friends "dude." Even more ludicrous is Nicolosi's notion that, "non-homosexual men who experience defeat and failure may also experience homosexual fantasies or dreams."
The organization's methods are so peculiar and bizarre that the American Psychological Association specifically condemned NARTH by name at the APA's annual convention in August.
"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 position's espoused by the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and so-called conversion 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."
Contact: Wayne Besen,
Phone: 917-691-5118
E-Mail: wbesen@TruthWinsOut.org
Web: www.TruthWinsOut.org