Featured Book

Understanding Same-Sex Attraction, Where to Turn and How to Help

Published by The Foundation for Attraction Research

North Star provides reference to resources that some Latter-day Saints have found helpful in their efforts to find understanding and reconciliation of their homosexual attractions, to experience a greater feeling health and wholeness, and to live according to the behavior standards of the Church. While individual resources are provided as reference, the approach of any particular resource may or may not reflect the opinions or approach of individual North Star contributors.

From the Back Flap

What is the truth about same-sex attraction? Can people really change? In this groundbreaking work, the authors of Understanding Same-Sex Attraction reach beyond the hype to dispel many of the false notions abounding about same-sex attraction.

Written by scholars, therapists, church leaders, and individuals with personal experience, this book brings together three pillars of wisdom—religious doctrine, science, and personal witness. God loves all of His children, and He does help the willing to make meaningful changes in their lives. Regardless of your current perspective, you will find something in this book that will change forever the way you think about same-sex attraction.

Endorsements

“As a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry for over forty years, I found Understanding Same-Sex Attraction to be by far the most complete and correct explanation of this important issue I have reviewed to date—a harmony of religious and scientific truths.”

~ W. Dean Belnap, MD, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah, Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Neuropsychiatry Association, President Reagan appointee to the Advisory Council of Health and Human Services, and former mission president.

“At last! A readable book about same-sex attraction grounded in both science and religious doctrine, and encompassing both chastity and charity. This book is a must for everyone—those struggling, academics, church leaders, lay people and counseling professionals alike.”

~ Lili Anderson, LCSW, PhD, Individual, Marriage, and Family Counselor, Author of Choosing Glory

“A faithful and competent treatment of a sensitive subject.”

~ Daniel K Judd, PhD, Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University

General Editors

Dennis V. Dahle, JD
A. Dean Byrd, PhD, MBA, MPH
Shirley E. Cox, DSW, LCSW
Doris R. Dant, MS, MA
William C. Duncan, JD
John P. Livingstone, EdD
M. Gawain Wells, PhD

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