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

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:55:55 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:46:17 +0000

Regarding that picture — I’ve seen that exercise before, it’s nothing perverted. It’s a “group sit”. People stand in a circle all facing the same way, then all sit down on each others’ laps simultaneously. It can be done if everyone does it at once. I think the lesson is about interdependence, etc.

By: Frank IBC

Frank IBC — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:24:38 +0000

#4 Harry -

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

By: Mr. H. Fusion

Mr. H. Fusion — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:22:02 +0000

#22, Rev. Robert. You raise some good points and I suspect you and your church welcomes gays as equals. Unfortunately too many in the “faith community” don’t hold the same beliefs and instead rail against them as an abomination. Recently the Anglican Church was almost split because of the “Gay Ministers” questions. It is almost like they and their donations are welcome but please sit at the back of the church.

By: McAfee

McAfee — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:49:18 +0000

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.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:58:38 +0000

As far as I can remember I liked bears, those balding, paunchy, hairy men.

Plus, homosexuality is present in nature, so it’s a natural thing.

Those who claim that some homos/lesbians can be cured are wrong, that just means that those persons are bisexual.

The problem radicates in that both str8t and gay folk shun bisexuals; the both saying that Bisexuals are just closeted homos/lesbos.

Human sexuality is way more complex than just sticking object A into orifice B.

By: John Wofford

John Wofford — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:00:59 +0000

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

By: Rev. Robert Johnnene OFA

Rev. Robert Johnnene OFA — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:55:43 +0000

It sounds like this doctor uses his “techniques” to satisfy his own sexual desire that he claims to have represses. Most persons who are gay that I have dealt with, and that is the main thrust of my ministry to affirm that God loves all of His children and wants them to be active in the faith community, knew from as early as four that they were actracted to the same sex even though they did not know what sex was all about.
This supposed cure is a farce and many of those that claim they have been cured are trolling the internet, rest areas, gay bars and other places in the hopes that they will not be found out.
It is much healthier for a person to accept how God created them and to then use that gift of sexuality in a healthy committed relationship.

By: Johnny-Cakes

Johnny-Cakes — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:47:41 +0000

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.

By: Max Bell

Max Bell — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:37:19 +0000

OldDug:

I salute you, then, sir. That is simply the way to be, no matter how you describe your creed or who you attribute it to.

By: ECA

ECA — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:35:20 +0000

Anita bryant here we go again..

By: OldDug

OldDug — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:23:58 +0000

Give me a break with this overthinking everything about everybody. A person is what they are and that’s all there is to it. Maybe some are born and some are made, but we are all what we are in the sexual orientation area. Live with who you are and what you do, find out for yourself what’s right and wrong.
I have studied the Bible for decades and have a deep faith in God. It is not wrong nor sinful to be gay anymore than it is to be straight (which I am), it’s just who you are. Let people be themselves and judge them by the results of what they do, not the most personal and private parts of thier lives.
..and man is that a disturbing photo! What is that, some kind of circle hump?

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:43:00 +0000

“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.

By: Danijel

Danijel — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:16:52 +0000

Mark, I understand that you and your firends may have a certain opinion about the subject, but can you say for certain that the origin of the problem is before birth? I would really like to know, but doesn’t anyone have some real scientific references about this subject?

By: Gary Marks

Gary Marks — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:40:17 +0000

#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.