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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#060606" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#060606'>From Fallwell.com: “Not a single
mainstream psychological, psychiatric or medical organization believes that
changing one's sexual orientation is possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#060606" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#060606'>I’m not sure how helpful this sort
of claim is, in part due to what seems like an implied over-simplification of
the issues. Compare, for example, what the likely percentage of successfully
heterosexual males were in 1930 in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
with the percentage of successfully homosexual males in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sparta</st1:place></st1:City> 500 B.C. Human sexuality is a
wildly complex and mysterious phenomenon that is organically connected to physiology
(that is the product of both ‘nurture and nature’) as well as broad
cultural context and moral experience of the individual. Apparently
entire civilizations can to some degree ‘change sexual orientation,’
which is what I took Ed’s argument to be. In <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sparta</st1:place></st1:City>, the men typically wanted to settle
down with women and have children when they were older, but this did not stop
institutionalized homosexuality the permeated the sexual experience of Spartan men.
Given the way our culture is going, perhaps 40 years from now 60% of all men
will be somewhat bi-sexual within their overall sexual experience. If
that was to happen, how would we even make sense out of the analysis above from
Fallwell.com? Almost all Spartan men changed their sexual orientation at some
point in their life. Or am I missing something?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#060606" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#060606'>Michael Metzler </span></font><font
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