By Sharon Kass, September 21, 2016
Belief in the normality and even the goodness of homosexuality and “transgender”-ism is not only false but absurd. Yet many people, both self-considered “sophisticates” and others, now embrace this belief. Those who know the real facts need not only effort but method in order to persuade our fellow citizens.
Some thoughts:
- People vary in their innate thinking tendencies. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs personality typology, one finds these differences: concrete fact versus abstract thought, sentiment versus logic, one-right-answer versus multiple-valuable-answers. Different people must be appealed to in different ways.
- Many people currently understand that a single dramatic event can cause emotional trauma and distortions in thoughts, feeling, and behavior, but not so many grasp the fact that sustained emotional neglect by important figures, especially in early childhood, can bring about the same things. Thus, basic information on psychodynamic developmental psychology must be presented.
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