Resource Papers on Homosexuality

Being gay is a choice by Andrew Lansdown	1 2 5 10 20 50 100 copies
In this resource paper, Andrew Lansdown - an experienced pastor and author - looks at how a significant number of homosexuals, both male and female, have described their journey into this lifestyle. In the cases he reports the people generally had normal heterosexual feelings until they were seduced or persuaded to try homosexuality.

How do some boys become homosexual? by Dr Joseph Nicolosi, PhD	1 2 5 10 20 50 100 copies
Dr Joseph Nicolosi is a clinical psychologist who has helped over 200 male homosexuals to change, over time, to a heterosexual orientation. He is author of numerous articles and two books: Reparative Therapy for Male Homosexuality, and Healing Homosexuality, Case Stories of Reparative Therapy. This paper is edited from an address to the 13th Human Life International Conference in California.

Do genes cause homosexual behaviour? by Dr Neil Whitehead, PhD, MNZIC

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Several studies published in recent years have claimed that sexual orientation is largely genetic. New Zealand biochemist Dr Neil Whitehead has widely researched this subject from Christian and scientific viewpoints over many years. This paper is based on his booklet Science and Sexuality, which condenses a wide spectrum of mainstream scientific literature and shows that scientists in most disciplines believe that genes have very little influence on sexual behaviour.

AIDS and public health by Dr Lucy Sullivan, PhD

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The protection of public health through separation of human excrement from food and water supplies has a long history. In their strategy to combat AIDS, public health professionals are too often ignoring the lessons gained from the control of epidemics in the past. In this paper, Dr Lucy Sullivan, a social scientist from the University of Sydney, assesses the current approach by government public health officials to the AIDS epidemic.

When homosexuals control a city from Rev Dr Chuck and Mrs Donna McIlhenny

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Rev Dr Chuck McIlhenny, pastor for over 20 years of a Presbyterian church in San Francisco, has dared to teach openly what the Bible says about the homosexual lifestyle. This paper, based on the book When the Wicked Seize a City by Chuck and his wife Donna, tells how their car was smashed and their home burned down. Remarkably, in the face of innumerable threats and attacks, Chuck has ministered with compassion to those enslaved by homosexuality.

Why sodomy should be illegal from Brad Hayton adapted by Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA

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The act of sodomy, or anal intercourse between males, has been illegal in most countries for several centuries. In Australia, sodomy (also known as buggery) has been illegal in all States until recent decades when laws have been changed to decriminalise homosexual acts. It is time to reflect on why most societies throughout recorded history have had sanctions against sodomy. This paper reconsiders the case for making sodomy illegal.

Hope for the homosexual: evidence that homosexuals can, with help, change their lifestyle from Frank York and Andrew Comisky

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The mass media coverage of homosexuality has several common themes, including: homosexuals are born that way and their sexual orientation is merely an alternative lifestyle. However, that is unrealistic and condemns many homosexual men and women to a lifestyle that leads to death. This paper is adapted from two articles on effective help for homosexuals published in Focus on the Family Citizen and Pastoral Renewal.

Homosexuality explained by Dr George A Rekers

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What should we teach our children about the temptations of homosexuality? What can be done to rescue a teenager who has been exposed to homosexual practices? Writing from ten years clinical experience, Dr George Rekers, a professor of family and child development presents the truth about homosexuality from medical, psychological and biblical perspectives in his book Growing up Straight, on which this paper is based.

Homosexuals on the offensive by Andrew Lansdown

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On 26 November 1982 the NSW parliament passed a bill prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of homosexuality in any section of society - including education. Consequently, parents in NSW may find their children in government schools being subjected to propaganda that homosexual relationships are as valid as normal marriage. This article by Andrew Lansdown, first published in Quadrant, analyses the aims of radical homosexuals from their own writings.