One Health Group Leaves a Little Space for the Conscience of Providers and Patients
In April, 2007, the “Committee On Diversity” of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) proposed a resolution flatly opposing any treatment such as reparative therapy or reorientation therapy intended to alter sexual orientation. This was the latest effort to further the homosexual political agenda across the leadership and official policy pronouncements of all major medical and psychological establishment professional organizations (American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, etc.).
The agenda is clear from the statement of the head of the AAPA’s Committee On Diversity in announcing the proposed resolution:
We’re trying to make sure that we’re in line with the views of other mainstream organizations to treat our patients with the very highest care we can. If I give someone in my office who’s gay information on not being gay, that’s not the very best care because it’s unscientific, it’s unproven, and it’s unsafe.
This propaganda campaign waged effectively over the past three decades has been wrapped in the guise of “objective” science. In truth, it is a political agenda designed to marginalize, crush and silence any objective scientific examination of either the negative effects of homosexual behavior or of the real possibility of change. The effective work of groups like Exodus, Courage, and Desert Stream Ministries is an “inconvenient truth” to this agenda.
Thankfully, some semblance of objectivity was retained earlier this month when the AAPA’s House of Delegates took up the issue. As reported here, John Fields, President-Elect, and Chairman of the Task Force on Ethics and Policy of the Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistants (FCPA), argued against the original restrictive resolution during floor debate. The final compromise measure which was adopted states that the group opposes therapies based on the premise that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder that should be cured. According to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, such wording preserves the ability of PA’s to help patients who desire to bring their sexuality into accord with their religious convictions through appropriate referrals.
Yet the struggle in the AAPA to protect the option to seek change is not completely settled, for the official press release on the passage of the compromise resolution puts this spin on the vote:
The HOD voted to oppose attempts to “cure” homosexuality and adopted the following resolution about reparative therapy: “The American Academy of Physician Assistants opposes any psychiatric treatment directed specifically at changing sexual orientation, such as “conversion” or “reparative” therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that the patient should change his/her sexual orientation.