Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter by Sherlina Nageer (‘There is no such thing as sexual conversion” SN, July 7). Ms Nageer interprets her mission to mean that no medical remedy is available to those affected by same-sex attraction disorders. She is hopelessly wrong. Several clear grounds of rebuttal are available to the Minister of Health:
Firstly, what is noticeable from Ms Nageer’s letter above is the complete absence of supporting references, apart from the standard gay-militant rallying cry that the “WHO removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders 10 years ago.” Newsflash! This was done for political reasons more than anything else, and Ms Nageer cannot now offer us the scientific/medical rationale upon which it was done. She should read The Removal of Homosexuality from the Psychiatric Manual by Dr Joseph Nicolosi
(http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/CSSR/Archival/2001/Nicolosi_71-78.pdf) which gives a good introduction to the issues.
Dr Nicolosi’s article documents the wholesale attempt by gay-militancy to “erase” the scientific knowledge embodied in, around, during and after the tenure of the three greats of the psychiatric profession: Freud, Jung and Adler. Strange, Ms Nageer should have known this.
Secondly, Dr Jeffrey Satinover (Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth) illustrates secular and spiritual treatments to the homosexual condition at chapters 10-13. Of interest to Ms Nageer will be his outline of ‘Secular outcome studies’ at page 186 (Chapter 12) that show an average 50% success rate, reaching 82% in some cases.
1. We have addressed the detail of the plethora of medical, scientific, legal, social-policy and other reasons why homosexuality is not a civil right in The Case Against Pancap and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17685588/The-Case-Against-PANCAP-and-the-Decriminalization-of-Homosexuality). The facts listed therein remain unassailable: Ms Nageer, Mr Kissoon and SASOD are trying to foist misinformation of immense proportions upon the Guyanese people.
2. We have addressed the detail of the plethora of medical, scientific, legal, social-policy and other reasons why transgenderism is not a civil right in The Case Against Cross-dressing or Transgenderism in Guyana (http://www.scribd.com/doc/27698238/The-Case-Against-Cross-Dressing-or-Transgender-ism-in-Guyana-UPDATED).
3. Enough scientific evidence exists in the past 100 years of medicine/psychiatry to show that homosexuality is neither innate nor immutable, and we offer the three law reviews to contradict Ms Nageer’s misinformation:
A).“Why Narth? The American Psychological Association’s Destructive and Blind Pursuit of Political Correctness (http://www.regent.edu/news/lawreview/articles/14_2kaufman.doc);
B). Homosexuality: Innate and immutable?? (http://www.regent.edu/news/lawreview/articles/14_2Byrd.doc); and
C). Gay Orthodoxy and Academic Heresy (http://www.regent.edu/news/lawreview/articles/14_2Clevenger.doc)
Yours faithfully,
Roger Williams
