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March 15th, 2006

How Dare You Inject Science Into This

Via Alicublog, Ms Instapundit herself comes out swinging for the ex-gay movement…but in the Instapundit way, which is to make gutter crawling bigotry seem downright liberal and progressive, all the while denying that you even agree with…well…anything.

Her beef seems to be that the APA is calling NARTH a worthless bunch of pseudo scientific quacks.

Not only did the APA deny CE (Continuing Education) credit to professionals attending the annual NARTH conference in November, stating that "The program content is not consistent with APA policy" but the APA is attempting to declare therapy to modify sexual orientation unethical

Well…duh.  When the fucking science says that ex-gay therapy not only doesn’t work, it is likely to result in long term damage to a patient’s mental health, and can even lead to suicide, then…yeah…it’s unethical to keep doing it lady.  What part of "first do no harm" are you having trouble parsing?

And where you really see the agenda here, is that same pusillanimous equivocation that her husband resorts to, whenever he wants to promote the politics of hate without looking like he’s a hatemonger himself…  

Personally, I’m skeptical about turning gay people straight…

Like fuck you are lady.  A motherfucking cinder block can tell what’s wrong with this, let alone a goddamned doctor of psychology:

But shouldn’t the client be the one to choose, not the APA? The APA has decided that the answer is no.

Are you really a doctor lady, or do you just play one on the Internet?  I suppose if someone wants to go on a diet of canned beans and ice cream as a way to cure their left handedness that’s their business…but…yeah…for a doctor to tell them being left handed is a sickness they can cure with canned beans and ice cream would be unethical you drooling fuckwad. That’s the point, and…yes…you fucking know that’s the point!

Dig the way she’s calling it "therapy to modify sexual orientation" as opposed to ex-gay therapy or reparative therapy, as its usually called.  This is how we make the essential ugliness of anti-gay hate seem innocuous.  It’s not ex-gay therapy, it’s therapy to modify sexual orientation.  And a lobotomy is therapy to modify the functioning of the brain.

Christ almighty…who do these jackasses think they’re fooling with this Oh I have nothing against the gays I just think that the people who hate their guts have a valid point claptrap…? 

3 Responses to “How Dare You Inject Science Into This”

  1. Tukla in Iowa Says:

    So her “logic” is “if the patient asks for it, the doctor should be able to provide it”. Therefore, she has just condoned assisted suicide and abortion. Who’ve guessed?

  2. bruce Says:

    Good One! Yes…someone ought to ask her about that.

  3. williehewes Says:

    I think probably the sanctity of life would weigh heavier than the rights of the patient in those cases. The sanctity of sanity doesn’t seem to hold much sway though…

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