Conservative groups are upset that they have no voice on the six-member review task force that will hold its first meeting next week. Conservatives want the APA to support reparative therapy (also called conversion therapy), in which therapists try to change a person's sexual orientation.

Scientific research, not religious ideology, will guide the panel's policy review, said Clinton Anderson, director of the APA's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns Office. The task force will submit a preliminary report to the APA's directors in December and the final report may be ready by March 2008. – (HealthDayNews)

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