{"id":14310,"date":"2009-08-06T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_a_new_therapy_on_faith_and_sexual_identity\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:00:49","slug":"wsj_a_new_therapy_on_faith_and_sexual_identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14310","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: A New Therapy on Faith and Sexual Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men who seek help from evangelical counselor Warren Throckmorton often are deeply distressed. They have prayed, read Scripture, even married, but they haven&#8217;t been able to shake sexual attractions to other men &#8212; impulses they believe to be immoral.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Throckmorton is a psychology professor at a Christian college in Pennsylvania and past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He specializes in working with clients conflicted about their sexual identity.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing he tells them is this: Your attractions aren&#8217;t a sign of mental illness or a punishment for insufficient faith. He tells them that he cannot turn them straight.<\/p>\n<p>But he also tells them they don&#8217;t have to be gay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124950491516608883.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men who seek help from evangelical counselor Warren Throckmorton often are deeply distressed. They have prayed, read Scripture, even married, but they haven&#8217;t been able to shake sexual attractions to other men &#8212; impulses they believe to be immoral.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14310\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}