{"id":4077,"date":"2010-05-07T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2010-05-07T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T23:15:15","slug":"whatever-this-means-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/whatever-this-means-2\/","title":{"rendered":"whatever this means&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.narth.com\/docs\/rekersresp.html\" target=\"_blank\">NARTH Responds to the<br \/> Recent Media Coverage of Dr.  George Rekers<\/a><\/strong><br \/>May 6, 2010<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The National Association for Research and  Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is a professional scientific  organization with hundreds of academic, research, and clinical members  dedicated to assisting individuals dealing with unwanted homosexual  attractions. While NARTH is focused on the science of homosexual  attraction, personal controversies often deepen the existing cultural  divide on this issue. Such is the case in the recent news stories  concerning o<strong><font color=\"#200020\">ne of our members, Dr. George Rekers<\/font><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">NARTH takes seriously the accusations that have been made, and we are  currently attempting to understand the details behind these press  reports. We are always saddened when this type of controversy impacts  the lives of individuals, and we urge all parties to allow a respectful  and thorough investigation to take place.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">At this difficult time for the families and individuals involved, we  extend our sympathies. We also wish to reiterate our traditional  position that these personal controversies do not change the scientific  data, nor do they detract from the important work of NARTH. NARTH continues to support scientific research, and to value client  autonomy, client self-determination and client diversity.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">At least they didn&#8217;t take the <strong>Family Research Council<\/strong> tack and pretend they didn&#8217;t know Dr. Rekers. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARTH Responds to the Recent Media Coverage of Dr. George RekersMay 6, 2010 The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is a professional scientific organization with hundreds of academic, research, and clinical members dedicated to assisting individuals dealing with unwanted homosexual attractions. While NARTH is focused on the science of homosexual attraction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}