Many Utahns think homosexuality can be overcome

NARTH? That's the organization founded by George Rekers, who was forced to step down for hiring male prostitutes. Their junk claims have been discredited by the American Psyschiatric Association (who REMOVED homosexuality from its list of disorders in 1973) and the medical community. Sexual behavior can be manipulated, such as with heterosexual prisoners. Orientation will not change. You can force people back into the closet, but you will not change them. You'll just drive them to suicide.

I have met a member who "overcame" his homosexuality. And I'm telling you, he may have stopped acting on his desires, but it was plain as day that man was still gay. Preaching that homosexual can and should change their way of life is just insulting. I don't see why the conservative side is so dead set on making people change who they are, I KNOW none of them would appreciate the gays sending out information, setting up camps and meetings to reform straights into becoming gay! Imagine!?! There would be all out chaos if that happened. Their lifestyle and choices aren't affecting you personally let them live as they want. They don't WANT to change and just about every homosexual person I know, is much happier and confident once they come out and accept who they are. Being gay isn't a choice, just like being straight isn't a choice.....

PLEASE...could someone PLEASE study the NARTH website, which is a research collecting base, with an updated statement by the editor (JUNE 2010) about their services for HELPING HOMOSEXUALS who WISH to have altered preferences? This is THE scientific base for collecting valid studies. There is NO evidence YET that this is genetic, yet the news media keeps FEEDING off people's "opinions." Could we report more intelligently and get this place ON THE AIR for once and for ALL??? They have some success - about the same rate at with depression, and other things people go to therapists for. It isn't about "curing" a disease...it is in the thinking, and they have a 5 page article on narth.com that SOMEONE should read from your station. Please bring the science into this picture so we can study the truth from a NON-religious standpoint. IT doesn't MATTER what readers "think" - they are totally uneducated about this matter and just go with the flow of emotion in the media instead of SEARCHING out the truth about homosexuality.

the term "overcome" is rather vague. Because there was a separate question about "changing" same sex attraction, a difference must be implied. As such, "overcome" must refer to the ability of people with same-sex attraction to not act on their homosexual nature (e.g. not have sex with others of the same sex). Is there any question that people are able to restrain themselves? Are we not animals otherwise? Boyd K. Packer was simply stating the obvious.