You're right, paulat.
There are no such persons as ex-gays.
There are bisexuals and there are celibate gays.
Homosexuality cannot be "cured" just like pedophilia cannot be "cured."
Tell us why.
Let's try and reframe the debate so that we can get away from the personal attacks.
I personally don't care for the hypocrisy shown around here regarding Mary Cheney's child. Had it been someone else on the opposite side of the political aisle, I doubt there would be as many supporters.
But as for the reframing...should a society seeking to prolong its existence ENCOURAGE homosexuals to adopt or raise children in stead of heterosexuals?
And before I end this post, let me answer the question of "How many homosexuals were raised by straight parents?" with another question:
How many of those straight parents abused - verbally, physically, mentally or otherwise - their children? And did those abuses lead to their homosexuality?
1. The fact that your husband is a psychiatrist doesn't exactly qualify you as an authority on anything, in case you missed that little detail. Medicine is not learned by osmosis.
2. Our brightest lights in medicine don't normally go into psych, so take what a any psychiatrist tells you with a grain of salt. They typically have the worst critical thinking skills of all clinicians and the longer they spend in their respective fields, the more removed they are from the actual physiology of medicine.
3. There is *no science* which implicates a gay gene. None. That fact alone means that everyone born on planet earth is born heterosexual.
4. Given this, there is no biological obstacle to a theoretical cure and there certainly can be ex-gays. It may take electro convulsive therapy to get them there given the severity of the event that screwed them up in the first place, but it's certainly possible.
Thanks for playing, have a nice day.