Comments on: Doctors criticise ‘gay treatment’

By: Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:25:09 +0000

I was amused by the requirement that the patient (victim) has to have a great degree of self-drive and be stong willed for this quackery to work. It’s pretty clear that only those with the strongest desire to change can repress themselves enough for this to apparently ‘work’.

Also ‘increasing heterosexual potential’ is one of the dumbest phrases I’ve heard. Science, eh?

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:01:32 +0000

SGC – That particular scandal broke just after his head to head with Richard Dawkins. Ted Haggard now claims to be a “straight person struggling with same sex attraction”, which to me sounds like a tetotal person struggling not to pick up the 10 bottles of vodka he put on his shopping list. If anyone should have access to the ‘best’ in gay cures, surely it’s top US evangelist Ted Haggard.
I would have more sympathy with his cognative dissonance if he hadn’t gone out of his way to preach homophobia from the pulpit and lobby the White House against gay equality.

By: Tash

Tash — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:30:01 +0000

good point faye – and also i’m ‘straight’ does but there’s plenty of ‘gay’ guys that i think are really hot – especially Derren! so what does that make me – the world is so predjudice. It should only be about love.

By: ScreamingGreenConure

ScreamingGreenConure — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:26:50 +0000

Good find, Flapjack!

By: s-a-m

s-a-m — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:00:37 +0000

These people are using their religion as an excuse for their homophobia. It could be argued that the bible advoctes the stoning of women for adultery and severe punishment for relatively minor offences, however I’m sure these people don’t still find these ‘teachings’ to be relevant to our society today. So why do they still take the mention of homosexuality in the Bible as absolute gospel, can’t argue with it, the bible says it so it’s obviously correct? They need to open their eyes and see they world we’re living in today.

The doctors trying to ‘cure’ gay people are on the same level as psychics..they’re both abusing vunerable people who feel in need of help, and they need to be stopped!

By: faye

faye — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:24:42 +0000

I personally do not like the term “gay” or “straight”. For me it has always been about love. I feel that although I love my male fiancee with all my heart if he had born a woman everything about him that I love would still have been there.

Does that make me “bisexual” in the eyes of the world. Who knows. But this insistance that being attracted to one sex or the other is wrong in the eyes of some people drives me up the wall.

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:21:45 +0000

Here’s a little ditty about someone for whom “gay cures” aught to work. He’s still hoping…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:12:04 +0000

barr – I respect privately held opinions, but once they’re out in the public sphere, they’re open to public scrutiny. If Narth wants to legislate against my lifestyle, it’s going to have to come up with something a bit more concrete than the shoddy evidence it’s put forward so far.
There are gay people who suffer because they insist we’re no more than a bunch of perverts who haven’t been ‘cured’ yet, and there’s significant danger in allowing their shoddy evidence to gain ground.
It fosters an expectation amongst the religious right especially that gay cures can be administered to all gay people regardless of whether they want it. I don’t go to their churches and read them chapters from “the God Delusion” from the pulpit so I expect the same repect.

By: zefrog

zefrog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:19:17 +0000

Barr, it\’s more than an matter of opinion though (that would be fine, I suppose). These quacks are playing with vulnerable people\’s sufferings and ultimately their lives.

By: Tash

Tash — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:44:38 +0000

shouldn’t it be up to the patient? xx