"…the parts [of the "Torah Declaration"] that imply all forms of homosexuality are absolutely treatable with our current knowledge base [do] not adequately convey the complex clinical dimensions of this matter.” In other words, Rabbi Simcha Feuerman of Nefesh signed a "Torah Declaration" that is based on junk science and that clearly seems to hurt some of the people who have tried it, and he belatedly realized that he could be sanctioned or even lose his license to practice because of it. So he removed hus signature.
Hella Winston writes in The Jewish Week:
…Rabbi Simcha Feuerman recently found himself in something of a dilemma.
The rabbi is a licensed clinical social worker who serves as the president of Nefesh, a prominent international network of Orthodox mental health professionals. But he is also an Orthodox Jew who believes that homosexuality is prohibited by Jewish law and that “many people who wrestle with homosexual feelings and want to change them can be helped.”
So when he was presented with a so-called “Torah Declaration” — a document initiated, according to its website, by “a committee of approximately 25 people consisting of individuals who have successfully overcome their Same-Sex Attraction ... along with Rabbis and concerned fellow Jews who strongly support their brave journey” — Rabbi Feuerman signed on. The petition advocates repentance and therapy for Orthodox gays and lesbians.
But the rabbi’s professional responsibility soon collided with his religious beliefs. And this week, in a sign of how thorny the issue of homosexuality is in the Orthodox community, he asked that his name be removed from the petition.
Rabbi Feuerman told The Jewish Week that he originally signed the document “because I feel it is important to make the Orthodox Jewish position clear, and not stand silent in the face of propaganda that all homosexuals are born that way and cannot be changed.”
However, Feuerman decided to ask that his name be removed from the document — which was also signed by over 120 rabbis from the Litvish, chasidic, Sephardic and Yeshiva University communities, along with 24 mental health professionals — because although he “[agreed] with the general intent of the Torah Declaration, the parts that imply all forms of homosexuality are absolutely treatable with our current knowledge base [do] not adequately convey the complex clinical dimensions of this matter.”…