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Should Lesley Pilkington be struck off?
http://www.telegraph....-men-go-straight.html
She claims to be able to turn gay men straight via counselling, and agrees that homosexuality as "a mental illness, an addiction and antireligious phenomenon”.
However...if a gay man or woman is genuinely unhappy being gay and wants to seek counselling for a 'cure', shouldn't they have the option?
Or is this reinforcing the idea that homosexuality is a mental illness and that all people are really heterosexual underneath?
She claims to be able to turn gay men straight via counselling, and agrees that homosexuality as "a mental illness, an addiction and antireligious phenomenon”.
However...if a gay man or woman is genuinely unhappy being gay and wants to seek counselling for a 'cure', shouldn't they have the option?
Or is this reinforcing the idea that homosexuality is a mental illness and that all people are really heterosexual underneath?
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There are two distinct issues involved here.
The first is the Question raised - should Lesley Pilkington be struck off? In my view - yes, because she has contravened the fundamental rules and auspices of the organisation to which she is accredited, which makes it very clear that it does not believe the homosexuality is a psychological condition which can be altered by means of therapy / counselling.
This then opens the sub-text of the 'normality' of homosexuality, and its 'rightness' in society, which as usual polarises into the standard arguments.
As sp1814 points out - some individuals are unhappy with their sexuality, and counselling around that unhappiness is all well and good, but to purport the posession of a conselling method which will 'cure' orientation is trading under false pretexts, and should be a disciplinary issue.
It does appear that this lady is confusing the aspoects of her religious faith - personal - with her attitudes towards sexuality and counselling - professional - and she has crossed the line, and should be strruck off accordingly.
The first is the Question raised - should Lesley Pilkington be struck off? In my view - yes, because she has contravened the fundamental rules and auspices of the organisation to which she is accredited, which makes it very clear that it does not believe the homosexuality is a psychological condition which can be altered by means of therapy / counselling.
This then opens the sub-text of the 'normality' of homosexuality, and its 'rightness' in society, which as usual polarises into the standard arguments.
As sp1814 points out - some individuals are unhappy with their sexuality, and counselling around that unhappiness is all well and good, but to purport the posession of a conselling method which will 'cure' orientation is trading under false pretexts, and should be a disciplinary issue.
It does appear that this lady is confusing the aspoects of her religious faith - personal - with her attitudes towards sexuality and counselling - professional - and she has crossed the line, and should be strruck off accordingly.
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/// I cannot believe the amount of smokescreens being put up here. I challenged anyone to come up with reasons why unnatural sexual acts are deemed by some to be "natural", and so far, all that's happened is that other pixels are attacking me for asking for grown up answers.///
Birds of a feather, eh?
Now you know what it is like being on this side,
/// I cannot believe the amount of smokescreens being put up here. I challenged anyone to come up with reasons why unnatural sexual acts are deemed by some to be "natural", and so far, all that's happened is that other pixels are attacking me for asking for grown up answers.///
Birds of a feather, eh?
Now you know what it is like being on this side,
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