Several years ago I read this book by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D. on homosexuality. It is by far the best treatment I have come across in my studies. Here is part of a review of this book by National Review:
THIS book is must reading for the millions who, thinking themselves compassionate, have recently come to endorse homosexuality as a legitimate alternative expression of man’s sexual nature. Dr. Satinover’s approach to the question is intriguing because he is, at once, a psychiatrist, a man with an unusual interest in the science that underlies his practice, and intensely religious. This is a clinician who speaks like a highly sophisticated Old Testament prophet and rejects morality based on Freud as fraudulent. He uses “the politics of truth” to refer both to honest science and to God’s word.
The book is divided into two parts, the first being a lengthy scientific inquiry into what we mean when asserting that a behavior is genetic, innate, or biologically determined. Granting that all behavior is biologically based in the sense that without our biological selves there would be no behavior, Satinover intends to educate us as to the difficulty of determining the cause of any particular behavior. He argues convincingly that the more complex behaviors, including sexual orientation, must be the result of a network of interactions involving several biological factors and those of the social environment, beginning with the family. Consider the case of your favorite basketball player: Only the right genes make possible the requisite height and agility, but lacking a society to nurture the child, invent the game, and prompt the desire to play, there will be no basketball player. Read more of the review HERE.
Purchase the book from Amazon HERE.
In This Series:
- Mailbag: God, Gays, Christians & Me
- Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth
- The Gay Guy Said, “I was born this way!”
- Will Gays Go to Heaven?
- A Lesbian Walked Into My Office
- I Dated a Lesbian
Checkout some of our training videos on our YouTube Channel
