Later ping out - there was a previous article or two about this on FR, and IIRC it was a hoax. Anyone remember?
Holy Toledo, who cares!?!?!
I don't know if it is a hoax or even another NYT embelished story to achieve sensational results.
(remember the homosexuals have been giving them grief over the "there are no bisexuals" story)
I do know this, if this kid is under 18 parents DO HAVE COMPLETE LEGAL AUTHORITY to send their child to a facility for treatment of the mental disease of homosexuality.
There is nothing anyone can do to legally stop it. (short of the child applying for emancipation and that is very very very very very very difficult to obtain)
The Times agenda is all about ennobling gays and demonizing Christians as bigots.
It's sickening.
I'm told by my two teenage granddaughters that this is becoming quite common with their classmates in high school.
I find myself wondering if it isn't one of those new fads the kids are connecting with because of all the sympathetic ink that homosexuals are getting of late.
Nowadays, with society's warped sense of morals, it's a badge of honor and waaay cool.
I have read the blog posting and the comments. EVERY SINGLE PSYCHOLOGIST, including child psych's. who posted on the blog, were in favor of and supported the kid "knowing" he was gay when he was 13 - if he had murdered someone at 13, these same psych's would have insisted he not be tried as an adult because his moral judgment is not properly formed yet..
DSM until it's most recent edition classified homosexuality as a disorder. Everything the kid describes is in line with a disorder. Why should it not be treated as such?
So what you are saying is the New York Times is very happy this kid will find out, if, he is really queer and just confused.. or NOT... < /sarcasm >
Although it was many, many moons ago, I still remember when I was 16. My mind was on school, sports and my "garage band." I didn't have much time to sit around pondering whether I was "born gay" or not.
I did a search:
Love in Action International
http://www.loveinaction.org/
Love In Action International exists to be a Christ-centered ministry for the prevention or remediation of unhealthy and destructive behaviors facing families, adults, and adolescents.
The goal of the program, said Mr. Smid, who said he was once gay but now renounces homosexual behavior, is not necessarily to turn gays into practicing heterosexuals, but to "put guardrails" on their sexual impulses.Like, why is this even controversial???
May I suggest an alternative therapy. I suggest he enroll in the Frisco Bath House Communicable Disease program. This program enables young gay lads to move to San Francisco, live with an aging queen, and to frequent the Frisco bath houses 24 hours a day. This provides unlimited access to every STD known to man, and several that haven't been isolated yet. This should provide him an excellent grounding in anal intercourse and sodomy which will last him all of his albeit, short life.
The kid is not "a homosexual." He's a boy who has same sex feelings and attractions. He's in the right place to deal with this treatable disorder.