by Mary Meehan

About the author: Mary Meehan is a Maryland writer who has been published in many periodicals ranging from the Human Life Review to the Washington Post.

Many people want to change the homosexual condition in themselves or to avoid the condition in their children. They may have religious convictions that homosexual activity is wrong, or they may simply believe that it leads to much unhappiness. They want to avoid dying from AIDS or suffering from other serious disease. And they want to avoid passing early death or deep suffering on to someone else.

They should know that there is genuine hope about both change and prevention. Neither is easy, but both are possible.

Discussion should begin with an understanding of what the homosexual condition is and what causes it. It involves sexual attraction...