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The new anti-gay language never came up for debate before roughly 7,000 delegates ratified a Texas GOP platform that tea party groups succeeded in pushing further to the right, including winning a harder line on immigration.
One influential tea party group called Texas Eagle Forum had urged the party to support psychological treatments that seek to turn gay people straight. It comes after Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last fall signed a law banning such therapies on minors, and California has a similar law.
Under the new plank, the Texas GOP recognizes “the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle.”
originally posted by: smithjustinb
a reply to: HardCorps
We need to do more to increase the effectiveness of homosexual treatment programs. We need to support more extensive research programs that can find the brain impairments that lead to and cause homosexuality and develop medication or therapeutic processes which have an effect on these impaired regions of male and female brains.
originally posted by: smithjustinb
a reply to: HardCorps
We need to do more to increase the effectiveness of homosexual treatment programs. We need to support more extensive research programs that can find the brain impairments that lead to and cause homosexuality and develop medication or therapeutic processes which have an effect on these impaired regions of male and female brains.
originally posted by: buster2010
originally posted by: smithjustinb
a reply to: HardCorps
We need to do more to increase the effectiveness of homosexual treatment programs. We need to support more extensive research programs that can find the brain impairments that lead to and cause homosexuality and develop medication or therapeutic processes which have an effect on these impaired regions of male and female brains.
So you think homosexuality is some kind of mental illness? What other forms of mind control do you support?
m·pair·ment [im-pair-muhnt] noun - the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults. Verb - to reduce or weaken in strength, quality, etc: his hearing was impaired by an accident
originally posted by: smithjustinb
a reply to: HardCorps
We need to do more to increase the effectiveness of homosexual treatment programs. We need to support more extensive research programs that can find the brain impairments that lead to and cause homosexuality and develop medication or therapeutic processes which have an effect on these impaired regions of male and female brains.
In the meantime, we all need to treat any person with an impairment with the same respect that you would treat people with normal brains. Just like a person with down syndrome should not be bullied, but should be cared for, so should gay people.
What we don't need to do is encourage this illness. That can only propagate it and is counter-productive to a mentally stable and healthy society.
originally posted by: smithjustinb
originally posted by: buster2010
originally posted by: smithjustinb
a reply to: HardCorps
We need to do more to increase the effectiveness of homosexual treatment programs. We need to support more extensive research programs that can find the brain impairments that lead to and cause homosexuality and develop medication or therapeutic processes which have an effect on these impaired regions of male and female brains.
So you think homosexuality is some kind of mental illness? What other forms of mind control do you support?
Mind control? I support the treatment of all mental illnesses. Whether it be Alzheimer's, autism, or homosexuality.
originally posted by: smithjustinb
I support the treatment of all mental illnesses. Whether it be Alzheimer's, autism, or homosexuality.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
But that sword cuts both ways.........no one has the right to change someone who wants to be who they are........
You want to put these people into therapy for their lifestyle, how long do you think it would be before someone else came into power and decided to put YOU into "therapy" and "re-education" for YOUR belief system?
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: smithjustinb
I support the treatment of all mental illnesses. Whether it be Alzheimer's, autism, or homosexuality.
Homosexuality isn't a mental illness. Definition of mental illness - A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning.