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.
Originally Posted by Gaffer
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.
Originally Posted by Gaffer
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.
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.
and the marrying of straight women as cover,
soiling The Sanctity of Marriage.
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.
That's why the straights should have
their sanctimonious marriage and the gays
should have theirs, then the 2 need never
meet.
Problem solved.
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.