Joseph Nicolosi's books removed from online retailer
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com)
- The world's biggest bookseller has buckled under pressure from
homosexual activists and banned the works of the world's most famous
Catholic clinical psychologist on reparative or conversion therapy.
Amazon pulled books written by pioneering therapist Dr. Joseph
Nicolosi after British homosexual activist Rojo Alan stepped up a social
media campaign calling for a ban on psychological literature on
reparative therapy, which helps people seeking to change their sexual
orientation.
Dr. Nicolosi, who died in 2017, was a devout Catholic and licensed
clinical psychologist and academic, who rejected the fatalism of the
premise that people are "born gay" and have no choice. Homosexuality, he believed, is an adaptation
to trauma; it is rooted in a same-sex attachment problem that leaves the
boy alienated from his true masculine nature.
He assisted hundreds of clients with their goal of reducing same-sex
attractions and exploring their heterosexual potential through the
Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic, which had a staff of seven therapists handling
about 135 cases a week of people from around the world and the National
Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), which he
co-founded.
In March, "Sky Gray," a U.S.-based LGBTQ activist who self-identifies as "pansexual trans," launched a Change.org petition against Nicolosi's books after Amazon removed a "gay conversion app" from its app store.
"Celebrating books that qualify homosexuality as an illness is not
right and you can help stop it," Sky Gray urged in his petition, which
attracted over 80,000 signatures.
Anyone who knew Joseph Nicolosi well will
attest to his unfailing compassion and skill with those wanting to leave
unwanted homosexual practices.Tweet
"Surprise: none of these therapies work. And moreover, they're
incredibly damaging to the victims," he claimed, adding, "they can and
have lead to mental health issues including depression, self-harm, and
suicide."
On May 31, Alan Rojo intensified pressure, and in a Facebook post
asked his supporters to help him in "getting a number of homophobic
books pulled from Wordery and Amazon" by leaving "a bad review" and
contacting the providers.
"It took a couple of weeks but the rating on Amazon dropped from a 4
star to a 2 star. I was finally getting somewhere," he bragged in a
Facebook post.
Amazon, which sells Hitler's Mein Kampf, six books by Dr.
Joseph Goebbels, works by white supremacist David Duke and pro-Stalin
works by American academic Grover Furr, who argues in his books that
Stalin killed nobody, pulled Nicolosi's works from their online shelves
on July 3, because they do not meet "content guidelines."
Church Militant spoke to Dr. Mike Davidson, Dr. David Virtue and Dr.
Lisa Nolland, who knew Nicolosi well and had benefited from his labors.
"Anyone who knew Joseph Nicolosi well will attest to his unfailing
compassion and skill with those wanting to leave unwanted homosexual
practices," remarked Dr. Davidson, CEO of Core Issues Trust, who
directed the movie Joseph Nicolosi: A True Friend, which is available on Amazon in the United Kingdom at the time of writing.
"Nicolosi has left a framework of understanding that too many
identify with to be allowed to be eliminated by Amazon. His concepts had
mass appeal across language, cultural and religious divides. His work
is foundational, building on Elizabeth Moberly's foundational work
before him and together with Bieber and Sacorides," he added.
Virtue, editor of Virtue Online, told Church Militant:
I first met Dr. Nicolosi in London and saw him in action with about 100 young homosexuals who had come from all over Europe looking to break free from their homosexual desires. They had come voluntarily without coercion. As they expressed their concerns and fears, I watched as Dr. Nicolosi led them through their relationship with their fathers, sometimes mothers, which were always dysfunctional, usually absentee fathers, emotionally disconnected fathers, abusive fathers.
As they talked, I watched as grown men cried, argued and fought with Dr. Nicolosi. He held his ground. He was tough and kind in the same breath. He demanded that at all times they tell the truth about the family relationships. Were these men instantly healed? No. But they were on the way to healing and Dr. Nicolosi would always be there for them. Later I heard that some married women and could testify that reparative therapy did work.
"Dr. Joseph Nicolosi understood gay men better than most — he spent
his entire career listening to and trying to understand them!
Thankfully, Joe's son Joseph Nicolosi Jr. has built on his father's magnificent work," sex historian Nolland said.
Until recently, distinguished members of the American Psychological
Association (APA), like its former president, Dr. Robert Perloff,
commended Nicolosi's books and condemned the takeover of the APA by special interests groups like the gay lobby.
"The policies and resolutions of organizations such as the APA, and
probably the American Psychiatric Association as well, would be better
framed and more truthfully based were these organizations cognisant of,
and open to, the sentiments promoting reparative therapy," wrote Perloff
in his foreword to Nicolosi's Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy, published in 2009.
Although some maligned reparative therapy,
'it has not been rejected as a therapeutic modality for those seeking to
change their sexual orientation, especially Christians or other
religious or morally motivated persons.'Tweet
Although some in the APA maligned reparative therapy, "it has not
been rejected as a therapeutic modality for those seeking to change
their sexual orientation, especially Christians or other religious or
morally motivated persons," Dr. H. Newton Malony, observed in a second
foreword to the book.
He explained that Nicolosi himself never presented reparative therapy
as a "therapeutic cure-all" or "as a model that explains each and every
incidence of homosexuality."
He elaborated: "Reparative therapy is offered as a hopeful remedy
grounded in one environmentally significant determinant — namely family
interaction. It is also offered as an option for religiously motivated
persons who are seeking some alternative to the view that they cannot
change."
Meanwhile, on July 5, Rojo Alan said he was widening his net and
calling activists in different countries to "check other titles" on
conversion therapy and have them removed.
Committed Catholic Jeremy Schwab, who left the "gay life" 10 years ago and leads an apostolate called Joel 2:25 to help others
struggling with homosexuality, said that Alan was also targeting other
books, including his own literature and testimonies of former
homosexuals.
He told Church Militant:
In a free market, we should be able to just go to another platform, but the same people who demanded that Amazon remove our books and resources have consistently demanded that any app, video and content we create be removed. Apple, Google, Amazon, Vimeo and YouTube have all jumped to meet their demands. This is not just about Amazon. They really are trying and succeeding in silencing anyone who dares to disagree with them.
Amazon has also recently removed books on conversion therapy by Anne
Paulk, Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg, Richard Cohen and Alan Medinger,
and Schwab has launched a counter-petition asking Amazon to reverse its decision.
Linda Nicolosi, the late psychologist's wife, has also joined the
fight against the militant homosexual activists seeking to suffocate
free speech and choice.
"If this ban stands, it will effectively amount to a stranglehold on
the free flow of information for conservatives and people of traditional
faith, because Amazon holds a virtual monopoly on book sales, the
public will be unable to access information on the causes of
homosexuality, and of any hope for change," Linda told Virtue Online.
"Of course, this is what gay activists want — to control the free
flow of information. Their activism was never about tolerance — it was
about the marginalization and shaming of anyone with a different
viewpoint," she said.Nicolosi isn't backing down. Her husband's books — including a new book about to be published, The Best of Joseph Nicolosi — will soon be available directly on his website.
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