June 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Robert Spitzer, a well-known and highly influential psychiatrist, has changed his mind, and now says he believes some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. Spitzer is Chief of Biometrics Research and Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York. Spitzer was a key figure in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental health disorders. Even today, the APA decision continues to affect the social debate over homosexuality.
The American Family Association reports that after studying the life histories of and then interviewing 22 ex-homosexuals, Spitzer became convinced that homosexuality was not a necessarily irreversible orientation. On the Dr. Laura Schlessinger radio show in January, Spitzer said, “I’m convinced from people I have interviewed, that for many of them, they have made substantial changes toward becoming heterosexual. I came to this study skeptical. I now claim that these changes can be sustained.”