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CONVERSION THERAPY BANS Enshrining a Contested View of Human Nature in Law
Download the Full article here CONVERSION THERAPY BANS Enshrining a Contested View of Human Nature in Law This article examines bans on “conversion therapy”, a broad term used to describe...
Deletion of Core Issues Trust (CIT) Facebook Page
Without warning, Facebook has permanently deleted the Core Issues Trust page, claiming that the charity is in breach of its community standards. Since June 2020, the page has received repeated, malicious interference from LGBT activists who will not recognise those who formerly identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered.
Whatever “gay conversion therapy” is, banning it won’t change Christian sexual ethics
Former Christian Legal Centre client and Director of the Core Issues Trust, Dr Mike Davidson, comments on the news that Malta has banned ‘gay conversion therapy’. Under the new law, anyone who tries to “change, repress or eliminate a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression” will be fined or even jailed.
The Sexual Revolution and the Do-Nothing-Church
“Abandonment of Christian sexual morality is the core of the Church’s self-secularization.” ∼ Gabriele Kuby, The Global Sexual Revolution…From time to time, the church finds itself with egg on its face because of its failure to speak out in the face of grievous injustices. The Nazi episode, the Civil Rights movement in the United States and Apartheid in South Africa—in each case the church (or at least large parts of it) tried to avert its eyes from evil and resisted facing the truth…
Memorial Service for Dr Joseph Nicolosi 22nd April, 2017
A memorial service was held to remember Dr Joseph Nicolosi on Saturday 22nd April, in Los Angeles, CA
Obituary for Dr Joseph Nicolosi
Joseph Nicolosi, Father of “Reparative Therapy” for Homosexuality, Dies Suddenly. Joseph Nicolosi was one of the founders of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), which was later re-named the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, and the father of “reparative therapy” for men—a particular branch of the larger movement to provide assistance in seeking change to those who experience unwanted same-sex attractions.
Gender is an objective fact, not some batty whim
Instead of learning to read, write, spell, add and subtract, your children will learn about Kit—a 12-year-old boy undergoing medical transition. If boys don’t want to be boys, Kit will explain to them how they can now be girls or vice-versa or fluidly flow back and forth with their gender, jumpers and lunch boxes.
Whatever “Gay Conversion Therapy” is, Banning it won’t Change Christian Sexual Ethics
Former Christian Legal Centre client and Director of the Core Issues Trust, Dr Mike Davidson, comments on the news that Malta has banned ‘gay conversion therapy’. Under the new law, anyone who tries to “change, repress or eliminate a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression” will be fined or even jailed.
Electroshock Therapy for Gays in Church Basements? Pastoral Counselors and Christian Psychologists React to ‘Conversion Therapy’ Claims
Christian psychologists and pastoral counselors are decrying the fear mongering over “gay conversion therapy,” with tales of “electroshock” use in church basements, arguing that the state is trying to control legitimate therapy.
Letter to His Grace Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
I am writing to express concern at the possibility that the Church of England may in some way move towards recognising committed same-sex sexual relationships as being in accord with God’s will. I would urgently counsel against this on grounds of Theology and of Science.
Counselors and Christian Psychologists React to ‘Conversion Therapy’ Claims
Christian psychologists and pastoral counselors are decrying the fear mongering over “gay conversion therapy,” with tales of “electroshock” use in church basements, arguing that the state is trying to control legitimate therapy.
‘Ex-gay’ bus ad man: I got raw deal in comparison with Ashers case
Newsletter, Belfast: A Co Down man who was barred from advertising his views on sexuality in London by Boris Johnson believes he has been treated unfairly compared to the Ashers bakery case.
Dr Mike Davidson, who lives near Hillsborough, said that in both cases would-be clients approached a service provider asking them to publish a message linked to their sexual orientation and in both cases they were refused.
(Pictured: Peter Tatchell
Whither Science?
CIT Director Dermot O’Callaghan writes: In 1994 John Bancroft, who later became director of the Kinsey Institute, said about research into sexual orientation, both heterosexual and homosexual, that it was an area “par excellence where scientific objectivity has little chance of survival.” He asks, might counsellors yet be faced with the question: does loyalty to gay ideology justify abandoning the Hippocratic principle, First do no harm to the client?
OSCE Intervention – 29th September 2016. Gender Mainstreaming: the UK’s challenge in guarding their children
This Intervention (from the Christian Legal Centre and Core Issues Trust) aimed to draw attention to Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), now endorsed by the UN – which promotes age-inappropriate sexual pleasuring through state initiatives, in UK Schools. The ideological basis of the philosophy informing this remains alien to many parents of those being taught according to such values, whose views are over-ridden and marginalized. In a side event following the session various instances in the UK where a high level of state-supported ideological intolerance is evident, were described…