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Technorati"There are many different ... approaches to this issue of bringing your behavior in line with your beliefs or your values, and the research that we have so far find that some of those approaches lead to harm," said Throckmorton. "Other research suggests that there are other approaches that lead to benefit. What we don't have is a good handle on what leads to benefit and what leads to harm."
As psychologists, gay-rights groups and evangelicals continue to argue over the issue in the context of the clinical sciences, Wilkins posed a question to the church.
"Since when did the church of Jesus Christ delegate its responsibility to healing people's hurt to some source outside the church?"
While Wilkins doesn't negate the benefits of counseling or therapy, he pointed to the Church as "God's primary source of healing" the hurt.
"In one sense, it is easier for evangelical Christians to passionately pound the APA right now regarding this possible move (to ban therapy) than it is to recognize and to implement our responsibility as Christians to share the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ," Wilkins stressed.
"How have we got to the place where we have relegated the issue to the clinical sciences and removed it from one of the primary responsibilities of the Church?"
APA's new policy statement on counseling for homosexuals may be adopted early to mid next year.
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