Kerry's Statements on Homosexuality Misleading, Says Educator/Researcher
by Bill Fancher
October 27, 2004
(AgapePress) - A psychologist and counselor says John Kerry's view of homosexuality is wrong, having been swayed by a culture that's equally wrong.
It was during the third and final presidential debate between the Massachusetts senator and President George W. Bush that the candidates were asked if they believe homosexuality is a choice. While the president admitted he did not know -- a stance consistent with current scientific research -- the Democratic candidate took what many consider to be the politically correct position.
"I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice," Kerry answered on October 13. "I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it. And I've met wives who are supportive of their husbands or vice versa when they finally sort of broke out and allowed themselves to live who they were, who they felt God had made them. I think we have to respect that."
The pro-homosexual political lobby group Human Rights Campaign declared Bush had "put politics ahead of the science that being gay is not a choice" -- but immediately supported Kerry's contention.
Dr. Warren Throckmorton is an associate professor of psychology and director of college counseling at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He says he has heard throughout the campaign Kerry's repeated assertion that homosexuals have no choice in their sexual desires. Throckmorton says that is false.
"There is no research currently that would point to one specific gene that would lead to any sort of sexual attraction," the educator asserts.
The culture, Throckmorton says, has been gullible to discounted pro-homosexual research. "Sexual attractions are like many other human affections and characteristics -- they are acquired over time," he explains. "Even though they may be imperceptibly acquired, they certainly have that environmental component."
According to Throckmorton, homosexuals can overcome their sexual desires -- and many, he says, are getting control of those desires.
"[Let me say that] we don't have any research ... that has surveyed a random group of people and then tried to find out how many want to leave or don't want to leave," he explains. "[But] there have been some surveys of homosexuals who are dissatisfied [with their lifestyle] and ever thought about leaving, and it's somewhere in the 30 to 40 percent range. But we don't know really know how many people actually try to make an identity shift and then are successful."
Dr. Throckmorton points to a new documentary entitled I Do Exist as proof that homosexuals can leave the lifestyle -- and many already have, he adds. Christian ministries such as Exodus International and Stephen Bennett Ministries would attest to that as well.
