Updated site: LGBT Americans For Obama.Dr. Spitzer, who just turned 80, has acknowledged that his survey was deeply flawed. In a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which had published his study, he said he had no way of knowing whether the patients who said they had changed were deceiving themselves, lying or reporting accurately. He apologized for making “unproven claims” about reparative therapy and for any harm he may have caused to anyone who “wasted time and energy” undergoing the therapy. Critics have noted that the people interviewed were nominated by centers that were performing the therapy and that there was no control group and no clear definition of what counted as therapy. There is also some evidence that reparative therapy can lead to depression or suicidal thoughts and behavior. It is absurd, potentially harmful, pseudopsychiatry. It should have been rejected long ago.
The
body breaks, things change, life ends. Only when impermanence is fully
apprehended do we really have the chance to serve, to give without
bargaining.
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When we are fully expressed from moment to moment, we are transparent.
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Dan Savage has set the time and place for the one-on-one debate that NOM's Brian Brown challenged him to earlier this month. Per this week's Savage Love podcast, Dan has invited Brown and his wife to a dinner at his Seattle home with Dan and his husband, where New York Times
columnist Mark Oppenheimer, who has previously interviewed both
parties, has agreed to moderate the discussion. I've just spoken to Dan
by phone and he tells me that the event will be filmed with the
tentative plan to upload the debate to YouTube "in its entirety and
without edits." The exact date is not yet known, but Savage suggested
some time in June. Stand by for Brian Brown's reaction to the
invitation.
JMG
reader Aaron Heier writes: "It's happening. The street sign is up &
ready for the unveiling just outside of the San Diego LGBT Community
Center today at 5PM. It's the first Harvey Milk Street ever."
What
does seeing clearly mean? It doesn’t mean that you look at something
and analyze it, noting all its composite parts; no. When you see
clearly, when you look at a flower and really see it, the flower sees
you. It’s not that the flower has eyes, of course. It’s that the flower
is no longer just a flower, and you are no longer just you.
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"My
dad spoke from the heart. I'm incredibly proud of what he said. I'm
even more proud of what the president said as it relates to making sure
that this is a fundamental civil rights issue. It's a civil rights
issue. It's something that people in my state, in Delaware, and
everywhere I go are incredibly proud of the stance that the president
has taken on a matter of equality. At a moment we're sending people to
defend our nation – whether they be gay or straight – to not allow them
to have the same rights that we all have on the home front just doesn't
make sense." - Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
