'State interest' argued in teaching homosexuality

[OCA]

Have they really spent "billions" on finding the gay gene? What's the point? They could've bought me and several million other people a porsche for all that money! I guess if they actually found the gene they could somehow justify their deviant behavior to the rest of society.

Yes, if they had found a gene or cause they could justify their behavior but..........they haven't and after all this time logic leads you to believe that it doesn't exist and therefore its a choice.

[Hagbard Celine]

Think its ok to discriminate against them?? "THINK" ITS OK TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM????????? Its your duty and obligation to discriminate against faggots!!!!!! They even took a beautiful english word and made it one of the most vile and vulgar words in the world. Gay!!! I, and most people in this world, don't have any use for a queer. If they were all taken out to the middle of an ocean and made to walk the plank they would be getting off easy. Now analyze that.....

That's a pretty bigoted statement right there. Even if you did exterminate all the gays on the planet, more would be born. As long as a penis can go in an anus, there will be gays. Just get used to it and tolerate their existence.

[Hagbard Celine]

Yes, if they had found a gene or cause they could justify their behavior but..........they haven't and after all this time logic leads you to believe that it doesn't exist and therefore its a choice.

Well, you're missing the third possibility and that is that it is a behavior manifesting itself out of early experiences or environmental factors--or that it is biological. Has anyone ever done a study to find out if effeminate boys are more likely to be homosexual due to hormonal deficiencies or something? I tend to think that it has to do with psychology more than anything else.

[OCA]

Well, you're missing the third possibility and that is that it is a behavior manifesting itself out of early experiences or environmental factors--or that it is biological. Has anyone ever done a study to find out if effeminate boys are more likely to be homosexual due to hormonal deficiencies or something? I tend to think that it has to do with psychology more than anything else.

Which then leads to this: if it was psychological then why can it not be treated like other psychological disorders? Why is the psychological community deadset against that? I know the answer, want to see if you do.

[Hagbard Celine]

Which then leads to this: if it was psychological then why can it not be treated like other psychological disorders? Why is the psychological community deadset against that? I know the answer, want to see if you do.

I'm sure there are some psychologists who want to treat homosexuality--I mean isn't that what happens when Christian families send their gay children to religious camps when their kids "come out?" Their parents send them off to get the "gay" washed out of them. I don't know the answer to your question. I don't get psychological community magazine so I don't know what the community's opinion on the subject is.

[Merlin]

That's a pretty bigoted statement right there. Even if you did exterminate all the gays on the planet, more would be born. As long as a penis can go in an anus, there will be gays. Just get used to it and tolerate their existence.

OK, I'll accept that analization as being bigoted. But one thing is for sure, it's my God given right to be bigoted against anyone and/or anything I chose, and I chose queers. There will be no toleration of them on my part.

[Ado]

How are they going to be treated?

There's no anti-gay pill.

Therapy doesn't work for many other
problems--people just learn to cope
over time-- or not.

I think there is an unreal view of
the success of psychiatry here.

[jillian]

I'm sure there are some psychologists who want to treat homosexuality--I mean isn't that what happens when Christian families send their gay children to religious camps when their kids "come out?" Their parents send them off to get the "gay" washed out of them. I don't know the answer to your question. I don't get psychological community magazine so I don't know what the community's opinion on the subject is.

Except we know that kids can't become "ungay". There is no scientific basis for assertions that they can be "cured". All you have are kids being taught to hate themselves and who become closeted.

Things like that are a huge part of the reason for the high suicide rate among gay kids.

[Ado]

and the marrying of straight women as cover,
soiling The Sanctity of Marriage.

[jillian]

Ah yes.. the age old tradition of a gay guy having a "beard". True enough.

Sanctity of marriage??? riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..... how long was Brittany married for?... the first time, of course.

[trobinett]

Ah yes.. the age old tradition of a gay guy having a "beard". True enough.

Sanctity of marriage??? riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..... how long was Brittany married for?... the first time, of course.

What, like twelve minutes or so?

[Ado]

That's why the straights should have
their sanctimonious marriage and the gays
should have theirs, then the 2 need never
meet.

Problem solved.

[Ado]

Think of all the money that will be generated when the gays
get divorced--damn, if I were a Republican divorce lawyer,
I'd be pulling for that one.

[jillian]

That's why the straights should have
their sanctimonious marriage and the gays
should have theirs, then the 2 need never
meet.

Problem solved.

yep.

[OCA]

How are they going to be treated?

There's no anti-gay pill.

Therapy doesn't work for many other
problems--people just learn to cope
over time-- or not.

I think there is an unreal view of
the success of psychiatry here.

Your thinking is much too simplistic, maybe a less difficult board is what you need. Perhaps there is a board at PBS Kids.