How On Earth Can This Be Still Legal?

[youngmafbog]

When I read this I was in disbelief, I just couldn't get that some still believe you can change the way someone is born in this day and age, it's just disgusting and inedible.

Just who are these people? Religious fanatics I suppose make up the bulk but if so how do you stop it as much is done in secret and 'voluntary'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5911469/Gay-cure-therapy-outlawed.html

[youngmafbog]

Apologies for the bit of a rant, it really annoyed me.

[kvalidir]

Don't apologise YMB, I thought it was a lovely and very justified rant x

[youngmafbog]

Thanks, still seething a bit though. Grrrr.

[10ClarionSt]

I don't see how it can be guaranteed. It's just nature gone slightly wrong for some people. I knew someone who committed suicide because he was gay. He couldn't live with the reality that he was like that when all of his friends weren't. He was only a young man. Sad.

[kvalidir]

Flaming hell, it's not 'nature gone slightly wrong' Clarion, its just the way some people are born, and it shouldn't matter that someone is gay if their friends are supportive, I have gay, bi and straight friends it's all just normal.

[10ClarionSt]

But it is nature gone wrong. It happens when the chromosomes divide up when in the womb. Male and female chromosomes divide wrongly and it results in the above. I saw that on Horizon. No, I don't have a link but it doesn't mean I'm mistaken.

[woofgang]

Clarion Street I'd love to see that link because I can't find it....also please keep in mind that "different" is not the same as "wrong"

[jackthehat]

Well, 10c....
Yes you are.

If this measure cuts off any funding from that odious and smug individual Mike Davidson, so much the better.

[TheChair]

I knew a lovely bloke who committed suicide because he couldn't cope with being gay. He never came out, and I don't think most people realised he was gay until after his death. It is tragic when people are made to feel that they are somehow disgusting or inferior or abnormal for something that is not particularly unusual, and just the way they were born.

[10ClarionSt]

Oh gawd! Terminology this. Terminology that. Wrong. Different. Not right. Error. Mistake. Balls up. Call it what you like!

[10ClarionSt]

And I have relatives who are gay, BTW. One of them is the manager of a gay bar on Canal Street, in the Gay Village in Manchester. Just saying, yer know?

[kvalidir]

I don't think gay people are errors mistakes or balls ups though, so terminology IS important clarion ( although I fully accept that you mean no offence at all ).

[The_Rim_Greaper]

^ "Balls up"..... hahaha...brilliant

[jackthehat]

Yes, in discussions like this it is always important to establish one's gay-friendly credentials.....

[kvalidir]

Anyone whose name starts 'The Rim' would likely know :/

[ToraToraTora]

i suspect religion does come into it somewhere along the line.

[Kromovaracun]

It is usually religious and very often (but not always) American-influenced or financed.

Vile practise that, unsurprisingly, has absolutely zero evidence of working and ruins people's lives. Good on the government for finally outlawing it - might end up being one of the May govt's best achievements.

[ck1]

I have no gay friends so not sure I'm qualified to comment here...I did used to work with a gay guy about 20 years ago though - and I liked him (not in that way, just saying...), but doesn't it just come down to a subtle difference in preferences as opposed to being something wrong with you. Some men who aren't gay might have a thing for masculine women with strong arms and a bit of stubble so does that make them a little bit gay? Either way I think there's a lot of things that go on behind people's bedroom doors that may be disagreeable to a lot of people regardless of whether it's with somebody of the same sex. If sexuality was a genetic trait then wouldn't it have been filtered out now, with gay people (historically) not having children? And would children of 'closet' gay people be more likely to be gay if they carry a genetic trait - maybe they do, I've seen studies on much less interesting subjects!
Have to agree that getting rid of these cures is a great thing though but wonder how it's only being done in 2018.

[youngmafbog]

The only way "it stops it" is that the poor *** top themselves, so how religions (and it's pretty much all of them that are homophobic) reconcile that with their 'peace and fellowship to all men' is beyond me.