Wacko Doctor Claims Homosexual “Cure” By Having Male Patient Cuddle On His Lap

John, I have many gay friends, and I have asked them about when they think they got their “orientation”. Without exception, they have said that they knew they were “different” as far back as they could remember. It was only when they learned about what sex was (around puberty or maybe a little earlier) that they could understand that they were attracted to the same sex instead of the opposite sex.

Of course, if that’s true, it completely takes the wind out of the sails of the anti-homosexual brigades, who rant about it being a “choice”. As if someone would *voluntarily* choose to become a member of a despised minority, shut out of many of the meaningful rituals (marriage, kids, acceptance of significant other) that heterosexuals take for granted!

I personally think homosexuality is more like a birth defect — a bit gets flipped the wrong way during development in the womb and the person’s sexuality gets confused. And it apparently happens a lot in the animal kingdom — check out the book “Biological Exuberance” at Amazon.

There is so much about human genetics, let alone human sexuality, that we collectively do not understand that concluding that any sexual preference is a choice is wholly laughable and absurd. We’re still in the ‘world is flat’ mode of thinking when it comes to genetics of any description.

Any man who believes that he can cure gay men by having them curl up on his lap is still a homosexual. What else does he use as therepy? Anal sex?

Moss, I don’t mean for the word “defect” to be a value judgement, just an indication that something didn’t develop as it normally does.

I’ve read about some of those “formerly gay” people who end up being found going to gay bars on the sly… it’s sad that these people’s religious values stop them from accepting themselves as they are. It’s sad.

Hey….whatever happened about that sheep experiment??

“unwanted homosexual feelings are the result of temperament, familial influence, and environmental or social conditioning”

We had a gay bird once (or a least we assume he was, kept trying to mate with another male), how does he explain that?

It is not a choice to have homosexual desires, the IHF director contends, but it is a choice to act upon those desires.

Certainly, this is not as liberal as some efforts of this kind, but its interesting to me whenever a church or related group takes this kind of stance.

While this probably isn’t the best example of adaptation and decentralization, it at least indicates that these are possible and part of the development of some Christians. No doubt the more fundamentalist types will scream bloody blue murder about it, but they’re also having the hardest time adapting to the world as it is.

Regardless, I think this sort of thing is more necessary to preventing Christianity from becomming just another social organization like the Elks or Rotary — not bogus fag cures, I mean breaking with fundy talking points like “homosexuality is a choice” or “hate the sin, love the sinner”.

In my opinion homosexuality is a choice. It’s just like someone that is addicted to porn, …

Homosexuality is a trait. Addiction is an illness.

Physical touching is forbidden in almost all counseling. If the “psychotherapist ” uses such a technique, surely he is unlicensed and not a member of any recognized medical, social or mental health association. In fact, reading the article, no one from a respected association was asked for an opinion. Using Bible passages to cure a mental illness is also probably not found in any reputable literature.

#14 Mark, once people admit that homosexual attraction is not a choice, then discrimination becomes more obviously wrong. If African-American people chose their ethnicity, much of society would still feel fully justified in discriminating against them as well (not that they don’t even now). Once the notion of choice finally falls into disrepute, so will much of the malice.

“something didn’t develop as it normally does”

Normality is a social construct, which means that society defines something as normal based on the currently dominant belief system in place around that particular issue… thus, heterosexuality is “normal” when the majority of society embraces it as normal… which results in everyone thinking that anything or anyone that does not fall into that “normal” category is “abnormal” when they actually are not, they are just not the same as the “normal” category.

The way social construction works, people end up believing that the socially constructed norms that rule social behavior are “real” when they are really just “imagined” by the majority culture.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all came to the realization that “normalcy” was the illusion that it actually is?

Life would be easier for everyone. The “deviants” or “defectives” could finally just live their lives in freedom, and the “normals” could focus their energy on living their own lives, rather than on maintaining their misunderstandings about the “deviants” and “defectives”.

It takes a lot of psychic energy on both sides to maintain all this conflict around sexuality; the world would be better off if we focused all that psychic energy, not to mention money spent on “therapies” and campaigns, on issues like child abuse, world hunger, violence, etc.

Anita bryant here we go again..

You know, I think we’re past the whole homosexual thing. It’s done…stick a fork in it. Let’s move on to the next big thing to incense the entire country to hate.

I mean, hating homosexuals is so 1980’s….get with the times people.

Oh, and OldDug…the Bible does say all kinds of things about “a man sleeping with another man” being an abomination and other types of things. Of course, it says nothing about women sleeping with other women. And the Bible was pretty specific…it was talking about Men…not mankind. So I guess it’s ok to be a lesbian but not a gay guy? But then again, when the bible was being written and edited, women were more like cattle than actual humans.

Or better yet, you could just throw away the Bible as outdated myth that has not one iota on today’s world at all.

The photo: Disturbing. A demented, way too close conga line.

We say “cure” as if being homosexual is some sort of disease. No one can help who they are attracted to nor can we simply change how someone feels.

Doesn’t gay rights seem familiar….Civil rights anyone? We should stop those that use a book writen hundreds of years ago to establish laws which oppress people who have done nothing wrong, or we will be no better than those who allowed racist whites to establish the Jim Crow Laws.

#4 Harry -

How does one “choose” to have an erection for one sex as opposed to the other?

So you think it’s a choice to be gay? So a straight man can wake up and decide he is now going to like dick? LOL Oh yeah, being gay is great. Why would anybody WANT to be gay? I get to deal with the bigotry, hatred, intolerance and ignorance of so many people. Religion is completely evil. It preaches hate… don’t be such a sheep and live your life by some fictional, man-made dogma that serves only to control you.