Honey, you’re pathetic. Get help. Real help.

…oh yeah, your mom made me gay, too.

Incidentally, I read through your long comment. I notice that you used a whole lot of words, but didn’t actually say anything.
Are you straight now? You didn’t even make the claim.

Reparative therapy has not been a positive or healing experience in your life. It has profoundly screwed you up psychologically and emotionally. Your testimony and tortured “logic” is evidence of why such mentally abusive trash should be banned for minors.

What you have presented as science is nothing but pseudoscience. You are not gay because of your relationship with your parents. It is so tragic that you have been duped into blaming people for your natural sexual orientation.

Furthermore, I’ll pay for physical tests, such as the No Lie MRI, to prove that you are lying to us. You are still a homosexual — thus have wasted a lot of time and money, as well as endured unnecessary anguish and pain while your quack therapist lined his pockets with your hard earned money,

Are you heterosexual now? Do you have relations and relationships with women? Are there any times you look at a man or men and say “yummy”, before you shut it down?

And will you swear it’s true on your sacred promise to Jesus, assuming you are Christian? Otherrwise, by whatever you hold most holy?

Or will you be like every other person I’ve asked these questions of, hemming and hawing before ultimately failing to answer?

Back in the fifties, I went through reparative therapy at a major Minnesota clinic I will not name. Three days a week for seven years, I drove 15 miles from my small town teaching job to the clinic for my sessions. No insurance. I paid it myself.

The idea was that I had to find the reason I “chose” to be gay, talk about it and the gay would go away. Yah right. The good shrink tried everything and nothing clicked. His last effort was to suggest I had made the “choice” while still in my mother’s womb. That’s when I realized he was the confused one. Then he pronounced me “cured,” told me to date girls to get over my fear and said goodbye.

Shortly after, with the help of a psychiatrist in private practice, I could accept myself as a gay man.

Buddy, the issue here is forcing MINORS to undergo scientifically unproven and mentally damaging reparative therapy. If you as an adult want to pour the big bucks down that ole rathole, go ahead. People pour money into all kinds of crazy schemes, hobbies, & habits all the time, and who is to stop them? Just leave the kids alone. Snag ‘em after their 21, OK? That’s what this law is all about. Kids being forced by crazy religious parents to undergo a disproven “therapy” that is psychically destructive.

Chris, you didn’t tell us what religious group you are involved in. Inquiring minds want to know.