Why "Conversion Therapy" Should Be Illegal

[Ktoyou]

Which reminds me of an old joke - "how many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but it's a long process - and the light bulb's got to want to change."



Speaking of ducks, there is much of great merit to Konrad Lorenz's - learned attraction - "imprint" findings.

I know, but the post is a play on ducks/dukes, see?

Like in the duck of death...........

[ok doser]

"Duck sez I"

[Danoh]

I know, but the post is a play on ducks/dukes, see?

Like in the duck of death...........

You try'n tuh duke it out with me? Well then, ya better duck, duck, goose.

[Idolater]

You are not getting my point.

No, I got it, I just passed over it without mentioning that I do understand what you mean. In the face of abject poverty, gluttony becomes more grave. I agree with you. Gluttony in the developed world is a different animal, or at least is more towards the lighter end of the gravity spectrum.

[Idolater]

No. Being attracted to what is laughable would work, like being aroused by milk bottles

The idea of a boy being attracted to another boy IS laughable---until you learn that he's not joking. Then it is grave.

[Idolater]

Liking to be treated like a baby and fed a bottle would make me laugh. It is called infantialism

Fetishism too.

[Danoh]

No. Being attracted to what is laughable would work, like being aroused by milk bottles

Reminds me of something I once heard while meeting with some one at an ER where they had checked in for some emergency health issue.

At one point, an ambulance pulls up and two Paramedics rush in with some overly dramatic homosexual on the stretcher.

I over hear one of the Paramedics say to a Doctor "I still can't believe he was that desperate, that he stuck that coke bottle up his rectum...well, gotta run..."

A friend of mine walks over to the guy on the stretcher and he tells her that yes, he had been "aroused by a...bottle."

[Ktoyou]

Reminds me of something I once heard while meeting with some one at an ER where they had checked in for some emergency health issue.

At one point, an ambulance pulls up and two Paramedics rush in with some overly dramatic homosexual on the stretcher.

I over hear one of the Paramedics say to a Doctor "I still can't believe he was that desperate, that he stuck that coke bottle up his rectum...well, gotta run..."

A friend of mine walks over to the guy on the stretcher and he tells her that yes, he had been "aroused by a...bottle."

It really takes all kinds, and without the Lord, there will be people who desire mutilating their bodies and very stupid psychologists who have come to think they as not insane, but these psychologists are usually atheists and think they can live by 'new gods', nicer than God.

The gods of 'sweetie pie' transcendent wackos.

[Ktoyou]

The idea of a boy being attracted to another boy IS laughable---until you learn that he's not joking. Then it is grave.

Learn this, it is better to have him be a queer, than to allow him to think being a 'she' will make him normal.
This was the thinking in the late 60s, transsexual operations cured homosexuality. I was there listening to lecture at Stanford University.

Now, they knew that most of these gender sickos are not even attracted to men, but have a "trust issue" and "control issue" about women. They take lots of time, but start out being transvestite, then hating the fetish, they convince themselves they should have been born women!

What is so sick about this is psychotherapists go along with this for the money, and most of them are females.
Don't believe me, check it out before making an argument.

[Ktoyou]

No, I got it, I just passed over it without mentioning that I do understand what you mean. In the face of abject poverty, gluttony becomes more grave. I agree with you. Gluttony in the developed world is a different animal, or at least is more towards the lighter end of the gravity spectrum.

I think you got it now.

[Kit the Coyote]

So this looks interesting. I like that it touches on one of the major problems with these programs other than just the potential for abuse and that is that they destroy families. Many are based on the idea that homosexuality is caused by an abusive or non-supporting father or an overprotective mother and when minors are forced into the programs for the wrong reasons and fail they wind up hating their parents because of it.

It is based on a true story by the same title. I've added Boy Erased to my library reading list looking forward to a first-hand account of these programs.

[Kit the Coyote]

So doing some more research on Boy Erased, found an interview with the writer:

[jgarden]

Why "Conversion Therapy" Should Be Illegal

When most Americans, including Christians, require medical care, they don't head straight to their local "tele-evangelist" expecting a cure by the "laying on of hands!"

Conversely, conservative religious bias should not be the basis for subjecting patients to "Conversion Therapy" unless it can be justified medically!

[Idolater]

I think you got it now.

'Seems that people had reason to think that Jesus was guilty of gluttony (Mt11:19KJV). I wonder if He was a little chubby? (No sacrilege or irreverence or blasphemy implied.)

[Idolater]

Why "Conversion Therapy" Should Be Illegal

When most Americans, including Christians, require medical care, they don't head straight to their local "tele-evangelist" expecting a cure by the "laying on of hands!"

Conversely, conservative religious bias should not be the basis for subjecting patients to "Conversion Therapy" unless it can be justified medically!

It seems dumb that people want to legalize physician-assisted suicide, but outlaw 'conversion therapy.' There must be a more humane way to try to help those suffering from the trial of disordered desires, than the inherent inhumanity of assisted suicide, I would think.