Homesexuality

Rehab centers are found through out the world to cure an assortment of disorders and addictions. The most common disorders and addictions a person thinks of when they hear the word rehab are drinking, drugs, and eating disorders. But would a person ever think to associate a rehab center with homosexuality? Dr. Karl Soper would. He works in rehab center that aims to cure homosexuality in its clients. He wrote about it in his report entitled "Cleaning Out the Closet" in Judgment Monthly.

In his report, Soper begins by telling the reader that if a person they should know decides to enter into the homosexual lifestyle they have more options that to just pray for or shun the individual. That there is a way to restore them to "heterosexual fullness" so that they can go on "to complete God's command to be fruitful and multiply." He then says that the claims many psychologists have made that homosexuality is genetic and their supposed evidence is "godless non-sense." He goes on to say that homosexuality is a chosen behavior that can be caused by "an absent of weak father and domineering mother," and that media advertising has aided the temptation of a homosexual lifestyle. He adds that " the greatest cause of course is unconfessed sin." He then talks about his clinic and the methods they use to cure homosexuality, which includes prayer, fasting, and electro-convulsive aversion therapy for behavior modification. He goes into further detail saying that fasting is a tool used to strengthen ones will to fight the urge or temptation, not to mention it renders the person incapable of focusing on such thoughts or acts related to homosexuality due to fatigue. He also goes into detail about electro-convulsive shock therapy and how it has been used with success for behavior modifications in other cases. He then talks about how the method is used and the temporary side effects as well as the possible permanent ones. He closes by saying that the program has had a one hundred percent success rate with its 36 clients.

There are five steps to the scientific method. Ht first one is to state the problem or question. In his report, Soper does not clearly state the question or essay. The reader is left a bit lost in the beginning wondering where the direction of the report is going; whether it is focusing on alternatives to shunning those who choose a homosexual lifestyle or that homosexuality is a behavior choice not a genetic defect. Only by reading the whole report do you understand that the" problem" in his eyes is the homosexual lifestyle.

The second step in the scientific method