First, people who currently identify as LGBT+ are people who did not change through therapy to explore the complexities of their sexuality including its potential for fluidity or change. People who changed are automatically excluded from this research. People who changed will likely report they benefitted. This biased participant selection strategy is like surveying only people who had marriage counselling and subsequently divorced to find out if marriage counselling is safe or effective, as Rosik has pointed out. Soliciting participants solely or largely from the LGBT+ community is designed to confirm a predetermined conclusion the researchers prefer.
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(1) To protect their marriage to their opposite sex spouse they love and go on being full time moms and dads more easily and enjoyably. In one study, 41% of the men who were married to an opposite sex spouse, most with children, on average 3 children each. Their same sex behaviour plunged from 71% before therapy to 14% after therapy. Same sex attraction decreased for 69% of all participants. What these changes mean to these men, their wives, and their children can hardly be expressed.
(2) To explore their capacity for a procreative relationship to which they aspire.
(3) To be abstinent in order to live consistently with the beauty of their religion that gives their life meaning and should be respected