What is the traditional Jewish view about homosexuals as individuals?

While traditional Judaism totally rejects homosexual behavior, it does not consider a person whose sexual propensity is homosexual to be any less a Jew than any other Jew. In the traditional view, if a person has homosexual rather than heterosexual desires, such a person must nevertheless suppress these desires - no matter how difficult that may prove to be. In fact there are Orthodox organizations which attempt to "wean" those with homosexual tendencies from these tendencies, using such techniques as aversion therapy and psychotherapy.

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