LDS Church's New Website

For anyone that isn't aware: the LDS Church has recently released a website called mormonsandgays.org.
While I appreciate the softening of their stance on homosexuality, I think that the website is a little misleading.  Let me share two quotes from the website:

#1  "The experience of same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people. The attraction itself is not a sin, but acting on it is. Even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them. With love and understanding, the Church reaches out to all God’s children, including our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters."

#2   "No one fully knows the root causes of same-sex attraction. Each experience is different. Latter-day Saints recognize the enormous complexity of this matter. We simply don’t have all the answers. Attraction to those of the same sex, however, should not be viewed as a disease or illness."

#1 Implies that homosexuality (the attraction part) is not a choice.  This is not what leaders of the Church have told us in the past.  Elder Packer taught that such tendencies were not inborn but rather [bad] "habits" and "an addiction".
Cleansing the Inner Vessel, Boyd Packer 2010
"Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! [Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone?] Remember, God is our Heavenly Father. Paul promised that 'God … will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.' You can, if you will, break the habits and conquer an addiction and come away from that which is not worthy of any member of the Church."

Elder Faust taught that homosexuality [or it's tendencies] is not inborn or inherited at birth:
Serving the Lord and Resisting the Devil. James Faust 1995.

"There is some widely accepted theory extant that homosexuality is inherited. How can this be? No scientific evidence demonstrates absolutely that this is so. Besides, if it were so, it would frustrate the whole plan of mortal happiness. Our designation as men or women began before this world was. In contrast to the socially accepted doctrine that homosexuality is inborn, a number of respectable authorities contend that homosexuality is not acquired by birth. The false belief of inborn homosexual orientation denies to repentant souls the opportunity to change and will ultimately lead to discouragement, disappointment, and despair."

These are just two examples out of many of Church teachings that do not line up with their newly released website.  I think it is dishonest to insinuate that the Church has always had the view that it portrays on its new website.

#2 suggests that homosexuality is not a disease or illness.  This is not what the Church has taught to its members or clergy in the past.  One can see Boyd Packer likening homosexuality to an addiction for example in the above quote. 
This link is the digital copy of a pamphlet called: Hope for Transgressors that is addressed to authoritative clergymen of the Church.  It was published by the Church in 1970.
http://www.connellodonovan.com/transgressors.html

Besides the fact that the pamphlet is extremely offensive, it makes reference to therapy, cures, etc as if homosexuality was either a disease, or the choice of the individual.  It is interesting to note that the church makes sure to emphasize at the end that: “Homosexuality CAN be cured.”

I find it completely interesting that the Church is tweaking these policies under the assertion that the newer stances were something that they have supported since the church's first recognition of "same-sex attraction".  I think the leaders of the Church are realizing that the mounting social pressures, feelings, and science conducted about homosexuality are requiring a softer touch than the hard-line approach they used to take. 
We are watching "We have always been at war with Eastasia" happen in real time.
The sudden change of stance without a mention of past beliefs is disingenuous.