A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality

A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality was written by Joseph, & Linda Ames Nicolosi and is published by InterVarsity The ISBN number is 0-8308-2379-4. This book encourages parents to use manipulative methods to encourage gender challenged children during the years when they are figuring out exactly who and what they will be in the world to conform to standards that are acceptable to their parents rather than what is best of the child.

It teaches parents how to react to a male child or teenager who is rejecting his own gender in favor of a feminine lifestyle and interest. It also demonstrates how parents should act toward a girl child who is showing more interest in masculine interests. The book is all about preventing a developing child from learning how to express themselves if they are showing signs of homosexual development as the child developmentally reaches adulthood.

The book claims to be the result of years of providing psychotherapy to children and teens who find themselves in the midst of gender confusion. Dr. Nicolosi is the president of NARTH; The national Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and claims to have developed a career of helping active homosexuals who desire to leave their lifestyle behind and move to a more mainstream lifestyle of heterosexuality. Dr Nicolosi admittedly objects to homosexuality due to his Roman Catholic upbringing but states this book is therapeutic in nature and not biblical.

The basis for this therapy that Nicolosi has built his career on has its roots in Freudian objections to homosexuality. The book contains several case studies that strive to prove the point that the doctor is trying so hard to prove and that is homosexuality is wrong. Research has shown that there is a high correlation between gender nonconformity in the developmental years and adult homosexuality. The doctor does concede grudgingly that there may be a biological component in the development of homosexuality but seems to think that family and environmental influences have a far more powerful impact in determining if the gender challenged person grows up to be a homosexual. While he sees nothing wrong with a boy having a fundamental sensitive nature this does not mean he must be a homosexual, rather he is just as heterosexual as the next man and no one should try and stop him from being so.

I feel there are several things this book ignores and the main one is that homosexuality is a perfectly natural lifestyle choice and those of us who have come to the realization that our own particular dogma of lifestyle should not discourage or try to change others unless it reaches a point of being harmful in nature or expression. In my opinion homosexuality harms no one in anyway that any other sexual lifestyle choice could do so there is nothing wrong with or needing to be corrected.

This author is clearing using his book as an outlet for promoting social change that is comparable to putting black Americans at the back of the bus again and installing separate water fountains to boot. While I encourage all parents to read this book, it is only to expose you to the sickness called psychotherapy that is overtaking our country and trying to steer humanity into its own image of what we as a race should be. I'm not sure about the rest of you but I'm thinking these guys are not God and they should not be playing god in any way shape or form. You can make your own decision.