Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Converting Gay people

THE SUPREME COURT will today hear oral arguments in a case involving what is advertised as "conversion therapy", but could and probably has been called other names as well, such as sexual brainwashing, indoctrination, or torture. This of course is a process in which a gay person undergoes "therapy", mostly verbal,to try to convert a gay person into a straight person, from homo to hetero. Since we know that homosexuality is associated with a specific gene, the efficacy and desirability of this is a subject of much debate. Paying attention to this Supreme Court over a long period of time clearly shows that it is extremely conservative in its current make up, and likes to rule in favor of conservative points of view. Equal justice under law, as long as its conservative, with a conservative bias. Conservatives like conversion therapy. More to the point, conservatives do not like homosexuality or, apparently, homosexuals themselves, although most would probably deny that. They view conversion therapy as a sort of liberation, or salvation. Progressive, who tend to see homosexuality as natural and harmless, tend to strongly oppose conversion therapy, indeed to despise it, seeing it as a sort of torture. The fact that it is illegal in about half the states and strongly frowned upon in several others indicates that a high percentage of the American population embraces the progressive, toleratn attitude towards homosexuality. Advocates and practiioners of conversion therapy, essentially teh hoophobic community, shall argue before the esteemed far right wing justices that it is unconstitutional to ban conversion therapy on the grounds of first amanedment free speech righs. That argument seems to have strength. If they are smart, which surely they are, they, the defendants of conversiont herap, will not try to argue that it is a vital, hearly, and essential community service, a medical service, helping people regain their health by ridding thme of the sickness of being gay.They may well believe exactly that, but are probably smart to keep it to themselves. The overwhelimng evidence, overwhelming proof is of course that conversion therap is indeed a form of torture, mental torture, psychological torutre, which almost invariably does immense psychological harm to those who are subjected to it. Most member so this SCOTUS were rasied Catholic and remain Catholic, with very conservative cocial values. It can almsot be assumed that they personally simply adore conversaion therapy,and do not like homosexuality. Five'll get you ten that, a few months from now, their ruling comes down to us from on high, and consists of a proclamation that it is indeed an unconstitutional infringement on American freedom to prohibit the barbaric practice. Soon thereafter, perhaps, the nation will experience a "conversion therapy craze". like the Cavy Crockett craze of 1955, or fur babies, or something, and LGBTQ's from all across America's fruited plain will be rounded up by Trumpian executive order, and harded into clinics for the Mitigation Alliance for Gay Alleviation (MAGA). All bad jokes aside,it seems almost inevitable that we are about to experience a boom in the conversion therapy industry in these United States of Abberations, dressed up as "Opportunities" for gay and lesbian people. Brick 'n mortar clinics, website online, a social media presence, the whole works. An entire American sub culture, brought to you righteously by the conservative evangelical fascist community, under God, under Trump. Which is the more fascist and authoritarian, conversion therapy, or prohibiting it?

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