Editing Tim LaHaye (section)

===Homosexuality===
{{See also|Homosexuality and Christianity|The Bible and homosexuality}}
In 1978 LaHaye published ''The Unhappy Gays'', which was later retitled ''What Everyone Should Know About Homosexuality''. The book called homosexuals "militant, organized" and "vile."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Thirty Years' War: A timeline of the anti-gay movement |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=523 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011053622/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=523 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |access-date=December 19, 2007 |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref> ''The Unhappy Gays'' also argues that homosexuals share 16 pernicious traits, including "incredible promiscuity", "deceit", "selfishness", "vulnerability to [[Sadomasochism|sadism-masochism]]", and "poor health and an early death."<ref name="cloud">{{cite magazine |author=Cloud |first=John |date=June 23, 2002 |title=Meet the Prophet |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,265422,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202151833/http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020701/books.html |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |access-date=December 19, 2007 |magazine=TIME }}</ref> He believed that [[Conversion therapy|homosexuality can be cured]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=October 2002 |title=The Unhappy Gays: What Everyone Should Know About |url=http://www.bookslut.com/propaganda/2002_10_000326.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101151033/http://www.bookslut.com/propaganda/2002_10_000326.php |archive-date=January 1, 2008 |website=[[Bookslut]]}}</ref><ref name="moser">{{Cite web |last=Moser |first=Bob |date=Spring 2005 |title=Holy War |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=862 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714185603/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=862 |archive-date=July 14, 2007 |access-date=December 20, 2007 |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref> However, he said that such conversions are rare.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Caramagno |first=Thomas C. |title=Irreconcilable Differences? Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate |date=2002 |publisher=Praeger/Greenwood |isbn=9780275977115 |location=Westport |pages=159}}</ref>