Since the mid-1980s, by which time the professional mental health world largely stopped offering conversion therapy, Christian organizations have set themselves up to do so.

Alan Chambers and Exodus International are just one example of organizations that have folded with their leaders admitting that they could not do what they claimed. But that does not stop new groups from setting themselves up. They keep claiming anecdotal success, but after a few years the results speak for themselves – they never manage to change anyone's sexual orientation.

These days, Christian organizations often offer something a bit "softer." They don't claim they can make people stop feeling attracted to people of the same sex, but they claim they can engender some opposite-sex attraction where it did not exist before.

And then they call it something besides conversion therapy, because they know how deeply unpopular that practice is. The thing is, they aren't demonstrating any more success than previous generations of the practice.

Another new variant is a form of therapy by which Christians claim they can help same-sex attracted people be happy about celibacy. They don't claim they can change sexual orientation, they just claim they have counseling techniques that can make people content to live without loving sexual intimacy.

Again, their success rate is far less than spectacular, as one can well imagine.

The whole whack-a-mole problem stems from a traditionalist-Christian refusal to recognize that LGB people are ordinary but minority variants of human beings who simply experience sexual attraction differently. The early founders of the Church did not know this, but human knowledge has advanced. More liberal branches of Christianity are perfectly willing to acknowledge this, but traditionalist Christians just won't.