Now Forming:
Interfaith Committee on Theological Concerns

Chairperson: Rev. Russell Waldrop, D.Min.

Rev. Dr. Russell G. Waldrop, Chaplain/Pastoral Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor

NARTH invites you to become a resource within the faith group to which you and your family turn for moral guidance regarding the critical issue of homosexuality.

NARTH recognizes and respects the guiding role of religion in the national debate about social issues involving family structure, gender identity, parenting, and sexual orientation. Religious faith offers us a resource of prayer, tradition, moral guidance, and emotional support, and a community in which we work, study, and share what we believe to be true about human sexuality.

If you are a member of a house of worship, you are in a unique position to present the case for a complementary, male-female model of gender and sexuality, and at the same time, to share the scientific resources NARTH has consistently offered the public for almost ten years now.

By making others in your faith group aware of NARTH and its informational website, you will offer others hundreds of pages of free information born out of years of research.

And as a resource to your faith group, you can reach people otherwise unknown and unreachable by us. Please e-mail this web page address to appropriate persons on your mailing list. And if you encourage your faith group's library to subscribe to the NARTH Bulletin, they will carry the best literature available on this most troubling issue of our time.

You can also help your faith group--and yourself--be prepared to speak convincingly about where you stand on the various issues raised in your community.

Finally, we want to invite you to join our new committee. The Interfaith Committee on Theological Concerns recognizes that religious faith is the key factor in the lives of many people who seek to formulate an ethical and scientifically sound position on issues of gender and sexuality.

Your clergy and worshipping community may want to know that the Rev. Dr. Russell G. Waldrop is the chairperson of this committee. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, a pastoral counselor, a licensed professional counselor, and a psychiatric chaplain. He works with NARTH to offer theological interpretation of scientific findings and to support the religious community of all denominations as they seek to affirm a complementary, hetereosexual model of human sexuality.

To be a part of this committee, please contact Dr. Waldrop at NARTH, or e-mail russwaldrop@yahoo.com.

Following are just a few of the many subjects, research findings, books, and testimonies that you can make available to your religious community by "forwarding" this page to someone whom you know is concerned about this issue:

• History and Purposes of NARTH: Membership Levels
• How Homosexuality Develops
• Reparative Therapy for Gays Who Seek Change
• Gays and Lesbians in the Classroom
• The Myth of the Gay Gene
• Origin and Therapy of Same-Sex Attraction Disorder (SSAD)
• Testimonies of Gays Who Changed, Married and Had Children
• The Misuse of Science in the Debate over Homosexuality
• Preventing and Healing Homosexuality
• Bans on Current Research in University Programs
• Results of the Spitzer Study: "Change Is Possible"
• Is Homosexuality a Mental Disorder?
• How and Why Homosexuality Was Taken Out of the APA Diagnostic Manual
• The Erosion of Heterosexuality
• The Importance of Studies of Twins and other Siblings
• Homosexuality and Pedophilia: Are They Related?
• Medical Implications of Homosexual Practices