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Focus On The Family Analyst
Argues For Freedom To Change

June 28, 2005 - Caleb Price, a research analyst with Focus on the Family recently published an opinion piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Price published his comments just days before Focus on the Family's "Love Won Out" conference in Seattle.

According to Price, liberals who protested the "Love Won Out," conference are hypocritical in their calls for tolerance and diversity because they "attempt to stifle all opposing views to their politically correct, pro-gay agenda. As a result, another liberal mantra--the freedom to choose--is denied to those seeking to walk out of unwanted homosexuality."

Price noted that even more troubling is the "vitriol unleashed" against those who consider the notion that homosexuality is not an immutable characteristic. These critics charge that "Love Won Out" conferences are "dangerous," and "deplorable."

Price points out that even Kate Kendall with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lesbian author Camille Paglia argue that homosexuality is not fixed or unchangeable. In fact, Paglia says it is not normal but an adaptation.

The author concludes by observing: "We are blessed with the freedom to make choices about how we define ourselves while stewarding our sexuality as we see fit. If people want to change their sexual identity, it is their right to choose."

Additional Reading: A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., "The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science"