[the American Psychiatric Association]
In 2009 NARTH responded to this with a 128 page document!
I brought down the beginning of the article:
“This document was prepared in response to certain statements and resolutions of the American
Psychological Association (APA) that are inaccurate and not grounded in science, in direct violation of
Advisory Committee, we feel obligated to inform both the scientific and lay communities about the
plethora of studies that lead to a singular conclusion: Homosexuality is not innate, immutable, or without
significant risk to medical, psychological, and relational health.
We wrote a reasonably comprehensive, historical review of more than 100 years of clinical and
research literature. The literature we reviewed includes older, less methodologically sophisticated stud-
ies as well as more recent, representative, and methodologically rigorous studies. We acknowledge in
advance the methodological limitations of the earlier studies, but include them because these earlier
reports for the most part met acceptable research and publication standards at the time they were written, and because their conclusions are supported by the most current, methodologically sound studies available.”