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The Facts About Homosexuality

The American College of Pediatricians released the following recommendations to School Superintendents (


Perhaps they had books like the following in mind.

The article goes on.


What’s interesting about this article is its indictment of the assumption that homosexuality is innate and unchangeable.  Such a statement will no doubt raise eyebrows in the gay community as their “rights” campaign is based off the assumption that they can no more change their orientation than a human can change their skin color. 

This letter also raises a greater question.  What would impel an organization of Doctors to write a letter to school superintendents?  The same organization states (

Adolescence is a time of upheaval and impermanence. Adolescents experience confusion about

many things, including sexual orientation and gender identity, and they are particularly vulnerable to environmental influences.

Rigorous studies demonstrate that most adolescents who initially experience same-sex attraction, or are sexually confused, no longer experience such attractions by age 25. In one study, as many as 26% of 12-year-olds reported being uncertain of their sexual orientation1, yet only 2-3% of adults actually identify themselves as homosexual.  Therefore, the majority of sexually questioning youth ultimately adopt a heterosexual identity. 

The implications of this research lead the college to discourage counselors from affirming an identity which if left to themselves they will not adopt.  Such a choice will lead them to a way of life of significantly increasing will lead to a significantly higher risk lifestyle. 

Among adolescents who claim a “gay” identity, the health risks include higher rates of sexually transmitted infections, alcoholism, substance abuse, anxiety, depression and suicide. Encouragingly, the longer students delay self-labeling as “gay,” the less likely they are to experience these health risks. In fact, for each year an adolescent delays, the risk of suicide alone decreases by 20%.

What is absent from this research are the spiritual dangers of homosexuality:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals . . . shall inherit the kingdom of God.

However the next verse gives us the great hope.


Dave Hintz