[TomOnTheRun]

Nobody is talking about forcing anyone to accept recovery therapy -- far from it.

I'm afraid I was not clear. I was attempting to make a specific response to to an earlier poster that said:

Now we have definitive proof that the behavior is indeed a chosen lifestyle. As such, do homosexuals deserve the special rights and protections they are constantly whining about?

Well - absent a state interest sufficient to compel people to undergo such therapy I don't think that is going to happen and I believe that people will increasingly treat it simply as a viable alternative orientation. Even if such a state interest could be demonstrated and was widely accepted by the population I don't wish to put such power in the hands of the state.

[DesertRenegade]

TomOnTheRun: “I believe that people will increasingly treat it simply as a viable alternative orientation.”

I’m curious what your specific opposition to polygamy is then. Isn’t that also an alternative lifestyle as well as many others?

[Albion Wilde]

Well - absent a state interest sufficient to compel people to undergo such therapy I don't think that is going to happen and I believe that people will increasingly treat it simply as a viable alternative orientation. Even if such a state interest could be demonstrated and was widely accepted by the population I don't wish to put such power in the hands of the state.

Nothing about this article had anything remotely to do with compelling such therapy, so why repeat yourself? No one has even suggested it. Traditional family advocates are not playing an offensive game with the gay lobby, but a defensive one. They want to destroy us, not the other way around. Are we clear on that?

The reason this article is needed is not because anyone wants to force them to do anything, but because the gay lobby has tried:

to deny that recovery is possible,

to prevent recovery events from taking place, and

to exclude the testimony of ex-gays from any policy decisions.