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[–]ProfessorShru 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think the author makes some good points, but like Maly_Querent I became skeptical of the author's motives when I saw that he was a pastor. The author's only two articles on the site are focused on sexual minorities and the conversion therapy one is written using tricky wording to attempt to obscure the fact that the author is drawing his own conclusions from inconclusive data. He brings up strong arguments first before starting on a winding path of his own interpretations of data that ultimately concludes with "Many lines of evidence lead to the conclusion that some sexual-minority adults—and particularly youth—may face confusion about their sexual identities, attractions, or behaviors on account of childhood trauma or dysfunction. At the very least, these things may be linked genetically" Which, in my opinion, is vague and somewhat contradictory as well as using the word "confusion" which is often associated with many relgions' negative views on homosexuality. Reading the conversion therapy article only made me more skeptical of the author's motivation to write these articles. He brings up important issues, but I am wary of the way he presents some of his arguments.

[–]lefterfield 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you're reading into it things that aren't there and that aren't clearly part of the author's beliefs. Maybe he does believe homosexuality is unnatural, maybe he doesn't, maybe he doesn't word things perfectly accurate. But you're making very specific claims about what he must really think, based solely on the fact that he's a pastor. That may be reason to ask critical questions about some of the things he says, but not to accuse him of being disingenuous for things he never said.