Also, he believes you can pray away the gay. This is just a gem:
Alan Osmond, the eldest of the singing group the Osmonds, says being gay is not genetic and that “reparative” therapy is successful, and reveals Chuck Norris was enlisted to butch up the group’s dancing.
I am not equipped to respond to this with any level of journalistic decorum.
Apparently this all started last year when Alan Osmond wrote an article for a website, thefamily.com, in multi-colored text of varying sizes, which purports to show the “science” of the gay issue, and also the “Mormon” of the gay issue. I am reproducing it as it is, so you can see this childish nonsense for yourself:
Much confusion can be avoided if we heed the words of the Lord’s prophet. President Gordon B. Hinckley has provided a solid foundation in addressing this difficult issue. He has stated:
“Prophets of God have repeatedly taught through the ages that practices of homosexual relations, fornication, and adultery are grievous sins. Sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage are forbidden by the Lord. We affirm those teachings.”
[...]
In addition to having counsel from the Lord’s prophet to provide guidance, it is helpful to have accurate information about homosexualityand its development. First, it is important to understand thathomosexuality is not innate and unchangeable. Research has NOT proved that homosexuality is genetic. Even more important, many researchers whose studies have been used to support a biological model forhomosexuality have determined that their work has been MISINTERPRETED. What is clear is that homosexuality results from an interaction of social, biological, and psychological factors. These factors may include temperament, personality traits, sexual abuse, familial factors, and treatment by one’s peers. 3
Developmental factors aside, can individuals diminish homosexual attraction and make changes in their lives? Yes.There is substantial evidence, both historical and current, to indicate this is the case. Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., a former Fellow at Yale University and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, concludes:
“The fact that not all methods of treating those who struggle with homosexual attraction are successful, and that no method is successful for everyone, has been distorted by activists into the claim that no method is helpful for anyone. … The simple truth is that, like most methods in psychiatry and psychotherapy, the treatment ofhomosexuality has evolved out of eighty years of clinical experience, demonstrating approximately the same degree of success as, for example, the psychotherapy of depression.” 4
Other researchers note treatment success rates that exceed 50 percent, which is similar to the success rates for treating other difficulties.
I am not kidding. That is how it looks on The Forgotten Osmond’s website. Of course, Truth Wins Out readers know that the mere suggestion of “50 percent” success rates in changing sexual orientation are complete nonsense. In a day and age when the luminaries of the “ex-gay” industry are admitting at an alarming rate just how hot they still think guys are, I feel no need to address childish silliness such as this. Moreover, I am not arguing genetics with a man who said this:
Last October, Osmond posted a video on YouTube in which he grimaces while discussing dancing with his brothers and says “they had us doing effeminate moves.” Osmond says the brothers enlisted their friend Chuck Norris, then a karate instructor, to “toughen up” their dancing. He says Norris made them very “boyish, which is what we wanted.”
It would simply be a futile exercise to try to explain the complexities of what science has shown about sexuality to a man who ran into the arms of Walker, Texas Ranger as a child in order to de-gay his boy band.
Here is video of whatever his name is talking about that time Chuck Norris taught the Osmond boys what it means to be men. You really, really, really need to watch it:
Okay, so after watching this, I clicked on one of the “related videos” –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_iOfSjZFEsM#!
Alan, Alan, Alan – is that you with the porn-stache? you’re the nelliest one…
We wouldn’t be having as much sex outside of marriage if we could get married… Just sayin’
I agree Evan. There is no need to respect a man who hired Chuck Norris to man-up his boyband.
Jesus. He makes Rusty Orange Bohner look normal.
OldBaldGuy, Alan is the one with the blue shirt in the “Stayin’ Alive” video. Can’t sing worth a crap.
The boy-band tradition is old, old, old. Read up about Celtic boy-troops and Pindaric dance choruses. I GUESS they were macho, and without Chuck Norris’s help, I dunno.
Yea, we need Chuck Norris to butch up our boy band. AND, of course, this is the mind that knows all about and makes definitive pronouncements about the bases of human sexuality and all its associated variations. Of course, those pronouncements all agree with his “Holy Book” from which he draws ALL this knowledge. Why is it always a straight, holy-roller who knows all the ins and outs of gay sexuality? Where did all this intimate knowledge come from? That BOOK? NO! The ancient commands for the population came from that book. The writers of that Book knew absolutely nothing of the composition of human sexuality. They were simply doing what they did best: using the commands of their god/gods to control the people and get money for their temples. Did they believe what they were saying? Likely, yes. However, the goal was still control of the people – just like fundies today.
ozzie, baby,
If you know that I am gay, you know exactly ONE thing about me.
And even knowing that much, you know far less about me than you would like to believe or fanatsize.
Did Alan O add that little clip of the Village People at the end? Does he know they were the ‘gayest’ of the boy bands? OOOF raise that index finger Alan and we shall all fall silent and obey thee.
Do they have any inkling of how totally pathetic they are?
How Alan Osmond Dodged Vietnam & Mission For Church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoJOcUMlyM