Effectiveness
Evergreen claims success in diminishing same-sex attractions and overcoming homosexual behavior. As many as 40% of Evergreen members are in heterosexual marriages. Dr. Warren Throckmorton reviewed Understanding the meaning of change for married Latter-Day Saint men with histories of homosexual activity by J. W. Robinson. Robinson interviewed seven heterosexually married men who had been through Evergreen and previously identified as gay. They believe that they have had a spiritual transformation which changed their orientation. They also claimed that they were no longer troubled by feeling different or rejected by heterosexual men, emotional attraction to men, sexual attraction to men, feeling bad about same-sex desires, social isolation, or compulsive sexual thoughts and behaviors. Robinson found that their change came from a new understanding that prior same-sex attractions did not require them to be gay.
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