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Since the theory of evolution is a fairy tale - the answer is - nothing.
Ignoring evidence doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. But people choose to remain willfully ignorant for all sorts of reasons even though it is completely irrational. Religious belief seems to be the main reason though.
'Reparative' or 'conversion' therapy was invented by NARTH's conservative religious leaders.
I'm loving the fact that NARTH is based in California and this will hit them in their pocket books.
I'm loving the fact that if any of these lawsuits actually make it into a court room that their harmful quackery will be exposed for the the evidence-free hocus pocus that it really is. You can't make fraudulent claims in a court room and expect not to be challenged to provide valid evidence for those claims. They have been scamming desperate parents and self-hating adults for too long. Time to pay the piper.
Letting people know that, for example, Leonardo Da Vinci was actually gay isn't detriment to anyone's education. It just provides a new light that hey, a famous painter was gay, in a time when being gay would have warranted stoning.
I have to wonder if some of these posters ever did their homework in school - because they show time after time that they don't do their 'homework' before offering up their senseless irrational fact-free opinions.
Gays are sadly trying to make GAY a "race". I hope the cure stops the genocide of California.
Hey do you think they will call one of the creators of 'reparative' therapy as an 'expert witness'?
You know - Dr George 'rentboy' Rekers?
He is a Baptist Minister, a Psychologist, and was the scientific advisor for NARTH (home of 'reparative' therapy). Much of the input into NARTH's 'reparative' therapy came from Reker's work. He is also a co-founder of the Family Research Council (FRC)
Embarassingly, he was caught in a scandalous situation when he hired a young male prostitute to ummm carry his luggage on a European holiday. Oops, guess that 'reparative' therapy didn't work too well for him.
Also embarrassingly, his work, which was based on his original PhD thesis in the 70's, has been discredited as being based on fraud and unethical practices.
Read the story of Kirk Murphy the 'sissy boy' who was unfortunate enough to come under the care of George 'rentboy' Rekers in the 1970's.
This will show you where some of these anti-gay 'conversion' ideas originated. Basically fraud.
That young boy came under the care of a very young grad student by the name of George Alan Rekers. The boy’s treatment would become a subject of Rekers’s doctoral thesis, and the astounding success that Rekers claimed in curing the young boy would mark the start of a very impressive career. Rekers would write about “Kraig” in at least twenty publications during his career, a career which included becoming a very important activist in the promotion of anti-gay causes.
You can throw all the facts and evidence you want at the homophobic bigots and they will still cling to their scattered and crackpot "theories" that retrench their bigotry and reinforce their homophobia. It's the very nature of their beast. They thrill with coming on internet boards to post about their obsession, so even my post is playing into their disorder. It's coffee time, though, so I thought I'd give 'em what they crave while I kill a minute.
You can throw all the facts and evidence you want at the homophobic bigots and they will still cling to their scattered and crackpot "theories" that retrench their bigotry and reinforce their homophobia. It's the very nature of their beast. They thrill with coming on internet boards to post about their obsession, so even my post is playing into their disorder. It's coffee time, though, so I thought I'd give 'em what they crave while I kill a minute.
So who are the ones who really need therapy? Not gay and lesbian people.
Irrational thinking patterns
Denial of reality
A sense that the world must conform to their views.
Paranoia
Delusional thinking
Lack of empathy
(possible voices in their head?)
Sorry. Uneducated personal opinions by lay people don't really stack up against the weight of quailifed evidence-based views of all the major health organizations. Parents don't get to decide how therapists are allowed to practice because they are not qualified to do so. The state and federal health regulating bodies do.
And I'm really looking forward to the NARTH stooges being dragged over the coals and being forced to own up to the fact that they have no valid evidence for their so-called 'reparative' therapy. They will also have to face overwhelming evidence against the claims of their 'therapy'.
A court room is not an internet forum. Nor is it a therapist's room where desperate parents are open to being scammed.
Valid evidence is required to support claims in a court of law.
That's going to be very hard to do when the claims are fraudulent.
Bring it on!
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