I'm Baaaack!

Not my sister's house, but representative of Ponte Vedra.

I'm back from the last of my April travels.  This time, I went to beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida to visit my sister.  She and her family own a little slice of paradise there.  After all this traveling, I'll be busy and broke in May, but it's been great.

It seems that every time I got out of town I missed something big.  When I was in Corpus Christi, I missed the deaths of Jonathan Frid and Dick Clark.  This trip, I missed this bombshell:

 "The Fatal Flaw in the Study – There was no way to judge the credibility of subject reports of change in sexual orientation. I offered several (unconvincing) reasons why it was reasonable to assume that the subject’s reports of change were credible and not self-deception or outright lying. But the simple fact is that there was no way to determine if the subject’s accounts of change were valid.  I believe I owe the gay community an apology for my study making unproven claims of the efficacy of reparative therapy. I also apologize to any gay person who wasted time and energy undergoing some form of reparative therapy because they believed that I had proven that reparative therapy works with some “highly motivated” individuals."


--Robert Spitzer, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Columbia University.  Professor Spitzer has repudiated his notorious 2001 study which found that a few "highly motivated individuals" could change sexual orientation.  His study has been cited often by anti-gay crusaders who would like to eliminate all of us.  Spitzer was also a key figure in removing homosexuality from the list of disorders in the DSM. 


Don't hold your breath for the various anti-gay "family" associations and "ex-gay" scams to recant their use of this study.