{"id":78534,"date":"2019-09-27T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=78534"},"modified":"2019-10-06T14:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:42:35","slug":"the-subject-that-cannot-be-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/09\/the-subject-that-cannot-be-discussed.html","title":{"rendered":"The subject that cannot be discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41689\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/lossy-page1-3000px-Thousands_of_books_smoulder_in_a_huge_bonfire_as_Germans_give_the_Nazi_salute_during_the_wave_of_book-burnings_that..._-_NARA_-_535791.tif_.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41689\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/lossy-page1-3000px-Thousands_of_books_smoulder_in_a_huge_bonfire_as_Germans_give_the_Nazi_salute_during_the_wave_of_book-burnings_that..._-_NARA_-_535791.tif_-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"A Nazi book-burning\" width=\"599\" height=\"458\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 10 May 1933 German book-burning on the Opernplatz (today the Bebelplatz) in Berlin, directly adjacent to the prestigious Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t, the forerunners of many of today\u2019s activists responded vigorously and very righteously to ideas that they didn\u2019t share. Among the roughly 20,000 books burned on this particular occasion were works by Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Erich K\u00e4stner, Karl Marx, and Albert Einstein.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the publications of the late Dr. Joseph Nicolosi (1947-2017), a prominent advocate of the controversial practice of \u201creparative therapy\u201d or \u201cconversion therapy\u201d that, he said, could mitigate or even eliminate same-sex attraction and replace it with heterosexual desires:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nicolosi, Joseph (1991).\u00a0<i>Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach<\/i>. Jason Aronson, Inc.\u00a0<a title=\"International Standard Book Number\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISBN<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Special:BookSources\/0-87668-545-9\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0-87668-545-9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">0-87668-545-9<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Nicolosi, Joseph (1993).\u00a0<i>Healing Homosexuality: Case Stories of Reparative Therapy<\/i>. Jason Aronson, Inc.\u00a0<a title=\"International Standard Book Number\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISBN<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Special:BookSources\/0-7657-0144-8\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0-7657-0144-8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">0-7657-0144-8<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><cite class=\"citation journal\">Nicolosi, Joseph; Byrd, A. Dean; Potts, Richard W. (June 2000).\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/doi.apa.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=showUIDAbstract&amp;uid=2000-00515-002\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRetrospective self-reports of changes in homosexual orientation: A consumer survey of conversion therapy clients\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0<b>86<\/b>. Psychological Reports: 1071\u20131088.<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite class=\"citation journal\">Nicolosi, Joseph (2002).\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110716215651\/http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/12150399\/A_meta-analytic_review_of_treatment_of_homosexuality\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA meta-analytic review of treatment of homosexuality\u201d<\/a>. Psychological Reports. Archived from\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/12150399\/A_meta-analytic_review_of_treatment_of_homosexuality\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the original<\/a>\u00a0on 2011-07-16.<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>Nicolosi, Joseph &amp; Nicolosi, Linda Ames (2002).\u00a0<i>A Parent\u2019s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality<\/i>. InterVarsity Press.\u00a0<a title=\"International Standard Book Number\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISBN<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Special:BookSources\/0-8308-2379-4\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0-8308-2379-4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">0-8308-2379-4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><cite class=\"citation journal\">Nicolosi, Joseph (2002).\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110716215651\/http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/12150399\/A_meta-analytic_review_of_treatment_of_homosexuality\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA critique of Bem\u2019s \u201cexotic becomes erotic\u201d theory of sexual orientation development\u201d<\/a>. Psychological Reports. Archived from\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/12150399\/A_meta-analytic_review_of_treatment_of_homosexuality\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the original<\/a>\u00a0on 2011-07-16.<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite class=\"citation journal\">Nicolosi, Joseph (2008).\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110716215656\/http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/18481660\/Clients_perceptions_of_how_reorientation_therapy_and_self-help_can_promote_changes_in_sexual_orientation\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cClients\u2019 perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation\u201d<\/a>. Psychological Reports. Archived from\u00a0<a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedexperts.com\/Abstract.bme\/18481660\/Clients_perceptions_of_how_reorientation_therapy_and_self-help_can_promote_changes_in_sexual_orientation\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the original<\/a>\u00a0on 2011-07-16.<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>Nicolosi, Joseph (2009).\u00a0<i>Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy<\/i>. InterVarsity Press<\/li>\n<li>Nicolosi, Joseph (2017).\u00a0<i>A Parent\u2019s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality<\/i>, revised edition. Liberal Mind Publishers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On 2 July 2019, the book retailer\u00a0Amazon.com evidently removed Nicolosi\u2019s books from their catalog, responding to a\u00a0Change.org\u00a0petition requesting that they do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Amazon.com continues to carry various editions and translations of Adolf Hitler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=mein+kempf+by+adolf+hitler+english&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;crid=2DOM3XXYO8IOE&amp;sprefix=Mein+Kampf%2Caps%2C201&amp;ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_10\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Mein<\/em> <em>Kampf.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It carries English translations of the 1938 textbook\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=History+of+the+Communist+Party+of+the+Soviet+Union+%28Bolsheviks%29%3A+Short+Course&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course<\/em><\/a>, allegedly by no less a personage than the great Joseph Stalin himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in the anti-Semitic classics\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Protocols-Sergei-Nilus\/dp\/1502304880\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=David+Duke&amp;qid=1569635132&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/International-Jew-Foremost-Problem-Complete\/dp\/1546863095\/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2\/136-8189566-6427760?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=1546863095&amp;pd_rd_r=71176713-4c8f-4d81-b5cc-2285b53c2aa4&amp;pd_rd_w=JBfu4&amp;pd_rd_wg=EBQVd&amp;pf_rd_p=479b6a22-70ae-47a0-9700-731033f96ce8&amp;pf_rd_r=11DJENHJEN2R5Q2W6MSX&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=11DJENHJEN2R5Q2W6MSX\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The International Jew: The World\u2019s Foremost Problem: The Complete 4 Volumes<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(by Henry Ford),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jews-Their-Lies-Martin-Luther\/dp\/1547013524\/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3\/136-8189566-6427760?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=1547013524&amp;pd_rd_r=3d63b8b6-4a6c-445d-8080-394ea0bd4928&amp;pd_rd_w=5Bz3S&amp;pd_rd_wg=Xx8e7&amp;pf_rd_p=479b6a22-70ae-47a0-9700-731033f96ce8&amp;pf_rd_r=R5KY7PXAV2SFERQSPDB5&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=R5KY7PXAV2SFERQSPDB5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>On the Jews and Their Lies<\/em><\/a> (by Dr. Martin Luther), and\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talmud-Unmasked-Rabbinical-Concerning-Christians\/dp\/1447403517\/ref=pd_sbs_14_1\/136-8189566-6427760?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=1447403517&amp;pd_rd_r=3d63b8b6-4a6c-445d-8080-394ea0bd4928&amp;pd_rd_w=e1NOZ&amp;pd_rd_wg=Xx8e7&amp;pf_rd_p=d66372fe-68a6-48a3-90ec-41d7f64212be&amp;pf_rd_r=R5KY7PXAV2SFERQSPDB5&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=R5KY7PXAV2SFERQSPDB5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians<\/em><\/a> (by I. B. Pranaitis)? \u00a0They\u2019re all available through Amazon.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to study the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Command-Obedience-SS-Leadership-Guide\/dp\/1530939976\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3L9ZO783UVEGO&amp;keywords=ss+leadership+guide&amp;qid=1569635902&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=SS+Le%2Cstripbooks%2C198&amp;sr=1-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>SS Leadership Guide<\/em><\/a>? \u00a0You can find it on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But you evidently can\u2019t get anything by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t call attention to this fact because I\u2019m a devotee of \u201cconversion therapy.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m not. \u00a0I know very little about the subject, but I understand that it\u2019s widely thought to be ineffective (and, of course, in some circles, immoral).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I notice it because I really, strongly, passionately believe in the free exchange of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a famous saying, attributed to various people over the years, that comes to mind in this context:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Here are some of the publications of the late Dr. Joseph Nicolosi (1947-2017), a prominent advocate of the controversial practice of \u201creparative therapy\u201d or \u201cconversion therapy\u201d that, he said, could mitigate or even eliminate same-sex attraction and replace it with heterosexual desires: \u00a0 Nicolosi, Joseph (1991).\u00a0Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4417,2505,2752,3811,2740,3694,5862],"class_list":["post-78534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-freedom","tag-gay","tag-homosexual","tag-homosexuality","tag-ideology","tag-liberty"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The subject that cannot be discussed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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