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Acknowledgements
Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., was serving as president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality when the idea for this journal was conceived. Without his countless hours of guidance and years of service to NARTH, this journal and many other important projects never would have come to fruition. David C. Prüden, M.S., was the project director for the journal. Under his leadership, the cover was designed, the contents were edited, the writing by the various authors was merged into a meaningful whole, and the journal was published. Finally, the NARTH staff has provided and continues to provide outstanding direction and service to our members every day. Without Kim Niquette, Joan Mackenzie, Eric Graham, and Frank York, none of our activities would have been possible.
Background
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 the APA's own "LeonaTyler Principle" (Fowler, 1993; Tyler 1969). As members of NARTH's Scientific 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 studies 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.
We are aware that there will be those in both the public and private domains who will disagree and take issue with our presentation of specific reports or studies. Research by its very nature invites verification, critique, commentary and interpretation, as well as a willingness to see the overall picture portrayed by many decades of empirical research, clinical studies, and experiential evidence.
Overall, we believe this monograph offers convincing evidence that there is hope and help for those men...