“(S)ome people can change from gay to straight, and we ought to acknowledge that.”

Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane

Apart from these practical reasons, Christians should ‘come out of the closet’ and declare as lovingly as possible our implacable opposition to homosexuality simply because our children are being forced to believe lies and teachers and parents are being forced to put the axe to Truth, through re-education and diversity programmes – soon to be an area near you.

David Skinner, UK

But of course I did not bring up the APA. The POSH booklet did, so I was merely responding to their misleading information. And in one sense, I don’t really care what the APA says. They have changed their tune on a number of issues over the years, including the issue of paedophilia. They even said recently that child sexual abuse by adults may not really be so bad after all. If the APA wants to in effect defend paedophilia, then it has lost all credibility in my books.

And yes, majority opinion doesn’t necessarily mean beans. The majority of Germans in the 1930s approved of what the Nazis were doing. Does that make it right?

And all kinds of groups and individuals can be cowed into doing things for all kinds of reasons: for fear of being labelled intolerant or politically incorrect, for fear of losing a job or career because of the stigma attached to daring to criticise the homosexual agenda, and so on. So there can be all sorts of reasons why 60 per cent of the voting members of the APA went along with the change.

As you admit, there were plenty of heavy-handed tactics involved to force this change. I have seen on numerous occasions how the intimidation and bullying of homosexual activists has led to outcomes going their way. So although homosexuals are relatively few in number, they more than make up for this as they continually push their agenda. They have cleverly and strategically got themselves placed in all the institutions of power and influence. They are well ensconced in the media, in academia, in groups like the APA, etc. So they now have, along with many sympathetic allies, enormous power to intimidate and bully people into caving in to their agendas.

But the bottom line is this: why should we pay any heed to the APA? In the past it normalised homosexuality. The way it is now heading, it may well soon normalise paedophilia. I think it is safe to say that there is probably more wisdom and sanity on these issues to be found in the first 50 people listed in the white pages than from the folk at the APA.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch