Light in the Closet offers fascinating insights into how many individuals are being personally harmed by current cultural and political forces that seek to undermine certain historic Western values. In the United States, more people consider homosexual behavior to be immoral or unacceptable than those who believe that homosexual behavior is “not wrong at all,” according to large representative surveys population by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, by the Pew Research Center, and by the Gallup Poll. So it is not surprising that many people with same-sex attractions want help to overcome those attractions. Arthur Goldberg offers a helpful intellectual analysis of how certain activists have tragically produced a cultural movement that now makes it “politically incorrect” for mental health professionals to offer available and effective psychotherapeutic or spiritual help to people with unwanted same-sex attraction, causing needless suffering by those individuals. Goldberg eloquently argues for client rights for therapeutic choice. As a national leader of JONAH that offers compassionate care for Jewish people with unwanted same-sex attractions, Arthur Goldberg offers a profound analysis of helpful spiritual resources offered by the Hebrew Scriptures and associated rabbinical teaching. And for readers of all religious traditions, Light in the Closet shows how people can change from a homosexual lifestyle to heterosexuality, drawing on recent research on the effectiveness of reparative therapy, and drawing on the helpful religious roots for Western civilization that are the basis for freedom and the possibilities for personal change.
--George A. Rekers, Ph.D., M.B.A., Ph.D., Th.D., FAACP, Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science Emeritus, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; U.S. Representative, International Federation for Therapeutic Choice
--George A. Rekers, Ph.D., M.B.A., Ph.D., Th.D., FAACP, Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science Emeritus, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; U.S. Representative, International Federation for Therapeutic Choice