Pray away the Gay

This season on Sunday evenings at 10:00 P.M., a new TV show called “Masters of Sex” has been appearing on the Showtime network. The show depicts Dr. William Masters and his assistant Elizabeth Johnson doing private clinical studies, scientifically answering the many questions about Human Sexuality. In fact, they were so far ahead of their time, that they not only answered the controversies of the day, but thought of many new and different questions to answer during their groundbreaking study.

To get to the heart of my dilemma, since sexual groundbreaking research was done over 60 years ago, why hasn’t similar scientific testing been done about homosexuals. Most Scientists claim gay sexual proclivities are genetic, that their sexual inclinations are established at birth, and their sexual tendencies and preferences are obvious at a early age. “They’re just born or created that way,” has been a common expression used by experts in the field and parroted by many in the media.

However, there exists a strong religious contingent that God just wouldn’t “do that” to about 20% of the worlds population. So they took it upon themselves to raise money and try to “Pray away the Gay.” Millions of dollars have been raised and spent, and decades have gone by, trying to convert homosexuals through prayer. “Exodus,” one of the leaders in the conversion business for over 30 years, has recently folded their tents, finally admitting that they have failed in their mission.

Another pseudo clinical organization that also raised lots of bucks to promote their
“Pray Away the Gay,” efforts was called “Narth”. Founder George Reekers and Dr. Mike Rosebush, apparently are also going to do the same disappearing act. Reekers was caught by the cameras of “60 Minute’s” coming back from an expensive overseas trip with a young handsome masseuse in tow. Reekers, said the aide, who was hired from “Rent a Boy.com” was an unlicenced “massage therapist” who carried luggage and helped to rub Reekers aching back. Oh MY aching back, are you kidding me?

Now here’s the punch line. Ready? Reekers’ partner in crime, Dr. Mike Rosebush, the former gay cure advocate, has been hired by the U.S.A.F Academy as a staff member for the Academy’s Center of Character and Leadership. The Academy has been doubling down defending the decision to hire Dr. Rosebush, but as a student of history, I’ll be willing to bet he will be out of there real soon, as soon as the heat’s off.

The LGBT community is really in definite need of a thorough scientific research program ( Like the Masters and Johnson’s society changing awareness way back in the 1950’s), to help discover and uncover all the facts, finally teaching us the truth. We must ban reparative therapy and label it what it really is, “Consumer Fraud.” Proper education will help to remove religious fear and misunderstanding impacting a significant number of members of our society.

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Thanks

Marty