There are those who say being "gay" is like being Left Handed or Right Handed.
And being gay is like being "black" or "white", it's just "different".
Then if the above is true, then the last time I checked, left handed people can LEARN how to do things and everyday tasks with their "RIGHT" hand, correct?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to "write" with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to eat with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to use fork or knife with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to throw a ball with their right hand?
Cannot Left-handed people can learn how to kick or punt with their right foot?
And what about those with a different color hair? Can't they dye their hair a different color?
Or what about their skin? Some can tan, right? But can some get lighter? Maybe with medical breakthrough, they can? And by the WAY, what's wrong with getting lighter in skin color as other people get darker sitting in the sun anyway without being judged as an evil person? I thought black and white are just "DIFFERENT", and people can get lighter or darker.
SO what's wrong with being "gay" and then seeking to be "straight", by researching a cure?
So if gay is being different, then a "homosexual" 2 "heterosexual" medical drug, procedure, research or breakthrough would be just "different" as well? Correct?
Or more to the point,
"if gay is just 'different', then shouldn't a homosexual cure be 'just different' as well?"
Just wanted to point that out, that's all.
If a homosexual *wants* to be "cured" then that is their right. But we currently don't have a method for doing it without a lot of pain to the homosexual.
ReplyDeleteJust as studies show that children who are left handed, and were forced to use their right hand have serious mental and emotional issues, Studies show that gay men who try to "learn to be straight" are really really miserable. It causes serious emotional pain.
And remember, when you are truly left handed (Not ambidextrous) and you learn to use your right, you will never be as good at using your right hand as you were with your left. The electronic pathways just aren't wired that way.
It's pretty much the same for gay people. If they try, they are miserable, and bad at it. Why be a weak imitation of a straight person when you can be a happy, healthy gay person.
Now, I have no problems with an adult presenting himself for conversion therapy. I'd try to talk him out of it. It should be legal, though.
But the majority of people who go to conversion therapy do it at the behest of their parents while they are still minors. Forcing a minor to do something that is harmful is child abuse in my book.
You say that "studies" of people who try to be straight, are really "miserable".
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What about studies of men who are straight, but "impotent" or have E.D. (erectile dsyfunction)?
Were not these men with E.D. not also miserable at one time?
See, at ONE time there were no "CURE" for E.D., correct? However, now in the year 2011, there are many drugs that do an acceptable job of curing E.D., right?
When you talk and think about homosexuality, you look at the past and current.
You don't look to the FUTURE, or even HOPE for a cure.
PLUS, you say forcing a minor to go through conversion therapy at their parent behest is child abuse.
OK, that is what you see initially, but VERSUS, what?
1. Having their child get AIDS?
or
2. Having their child think there is NO hope to having kids of their own like their parents and eventually committing SUICIDE?
Would that not be "child abuse" to let their kids go down the dead end path of the gay AIDS and drug culture? (Gays still take DRUGS to FORGET their homosexual feelings.)
If you look at the BIG PICTURE, you would see past STUDIES and start looking for what hasn't been done instead of "giving up" like all these medical association did in the past in regards to curing homosexuality.
Let me remind you that even before all these gay rights and gay pride, homosexuals were committing suicide at the highest rate of types of suicides. And currently, still are committing suicide at the highest rates.
Again, what do these medical associations have to say for itself?
Did these medical associations properly and legally WARN those patients they advised that saying, "living a 'gay life' can be perfectly normal"?
If they did, these associations where clearly wrong due to AIDS. And if they didn't warn their patients, they again, were wrong again, not to warn their patients about such deadly hazards.