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‘Ex-Gay’ Men Fight Back Against View That Homosexuality Can’t Be Changed
New York Times ^ | By ERIK ECKHOLM

Posted on 01/06/2019 10:08:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

“something most scientists say”

Again with the “most scientists say”.

NYT simply makes things up.


21 posted on 01/06/2019 11:27:21 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tinyowl

I don’t think your post was a rant.

I think it was insightful and well measured.


22 posted on 01/06/2019 11:29:14 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Most gay males are basically from disfunctional and even brutal homes; so they are emotionally children seeking the protection of a positive father figure.

When they grew mature enough to have sexual feelings, those feelings are directed at superior males.

Since that behavior is modified by external circumstances, it can be modified again, leaving them free to seek mature relationships with women.


23 posted on 01/06/2019 11:36:40 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: NohSpinZone

The Gays are not dominating public discourse. Cultural Marxists are dominating public discourse. These people would gladly feed Gays, Blacks, women, and illegal immigrants through a meat grinder, if that would help advance the cause of Socialism.

But they know that the way to get young people to take a jaded and cynical attitude towards America, Capitalism, Judeo-Christian values, and the West as a whole, is to scream about racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Muslim immigrants are beating the crap out of Gays in Europe, and the Gay rights leaders could care less. Lesbians are angry at the Transgender crowd, because they trivialize what it means to be a woman, and the Feminist leaders could care less.

As long as more and more White people continue to lose their incentive to stand up for Western values, that’s all that matters to these people.

You are mistaken to think that Gay people started the Gay rights movement to serve their own interests. Gays were used as pawns in order to accomplish the Cultural Marxists true goal.....promoting bisexuality to future generations of children.


24 posted on 01/06/2019 11:43:49 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: CatOwner

I thought the same thing too, so I read the whole long article. Didn’t see any ulterior motives, pretty straight article.

So, pigs do fly!


25 posted on 01/06/2019 11:52:17 AM PST by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind
Often buried is the fact that many homosexuals are not just attracted to their own sex but are simply wallowing in sexuality of any kind. Researcher Judith Reisman has shown that by researching what homosexuals themselves say they do. There is a huge lexicon of slang words among homosexuals for attracting minors, for instance. Why would they need to have that? Drugs and/or drinking play a large role; in my opinion because homosexuals are trying to mask their own guilt. That's also why they want to force everyone to treat homosexuality as normal behavior.

They don't understand that no matter how much they drink or do drugs and even if every single person celebrated their lifestyle the guilt would still be there.
26 posted on 01/06/2019 11:59:56 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Mr. Smith is one of thousands of men across the country, often known as “ex-gay,” who believe they have changed their most basic sexual desires through some combination of therapy and prayer — something most scientists say has never been proved possible and is likely an illusion.”

No bias here. Notice how the actual experience of Mr. Smith is not good enough for the NYT. Pay attention how they trot out vague “most scientists” to challenge what Mr. Smith knows is true. Now let’s count the weasel words and phrases.

“Often known as “ex-gay”..”
“Who believe”
“Most scientists”
“Never proved”
“Most likely an illusion.”
Most basic sexual desires”

All of these are deliberate attempts by the writer to cast doubt on what Mr. Smith has personally experienced. Not just claimed to have-like being beamed aboard a UFO- but verified. As in he is now attracted to women. This is not journalism it is an opinion piece that sneers at the whole notion that sexual desire can change and even be suppressed.


27 posted on 01/06/2019 12:14:52 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

It is a behavior. But homosexuals cannot be a protected class on the basis of behavior.

It his to be as genetic as the racial or sexual assignment of a person. And they have been looking hard to find that genetic tag, but have not found one.

Because there isn’t one. And that is devastating to them.


28 posted on 01/06/2019 12:33:53 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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And they have been looking hard to find that genetic tag, but have not found one.

It would be interesting if they did. If a genetic marker were to be found, the docs could screen for it. Some parents, probably many parents, would consider homosexuality a defect, or at least a serious psychiatric disorder that their child would have to carry for life. Some of these parents, possibly many of them, would opt for abortion, and then try again for a normal kid. What would the left do? Suddenly discover, for the first time, a reason to limit the abortion license? Which would prevail: a woman's right to choose, or the sanctity of homosexuality?

29 posted on 01/06/2019 12:57:49 PM PST by sphinx
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The fundamental point is that behavior is malleable, while the genetic make up of the melanin content of your skin, shape of your face, the construction of your genitalia, or the color of your eyes...is not.

They want the behavior of homosexuality to be non-malleable, because it then becomes something you cannot control.


30 posted on 01/06/2019 1:08:49 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ifinnegan
Thank you, I feel ranty about this issue when I consider it because ... well we all know ... the left ruins ... not necessarily 'so many lives' (they do) ... but so much life ... and so much OF life ... for their dopey followers.

EVERY legitimate religious practice or discipline points towards taking attention away from the illusion of self, points towards doing the opposite of reinforcing the illusion. The left just reinforces it and encourages it's lemmings to fall deeper into the hypnosis. It's evil and causes a ton of suffering, even for the dopes I wish would never enter a voting booth. So I get a ranty feeling in my stomach when I consider this evil.

Even though I know it's been around since man first crawled out of the dust.

31 posted on 01/06/2019 1:35:42 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: SeekAndFind

Telling young men with same sex leanings that it’s permanent and can’t be changed is one of the cruelest, deadliest lies ever told. How many lives have been ruined because they thought they were facing a lifetime of getting boinked up the butt by thousands of different, anonymous men? Every state legislator and governor that has voted for outlawing therapy should be arrested and charged with murder. The agenda uber alles!


32 posted on 01/06/2019 7:32:17 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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