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William769

(55,145 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 06:25 PM Aug 2012

Evangelical Hospital Holds 5th Annual Gayness Cure Walk

MARIETTA, GA—As part of an ongoing effort to eradicate homosexuality, Cobb County Evangelical Hospital held its fifth annual Walk to Cure Gayness Sunday, drawing thousands of participants to raise funds and awareness for the debilitating psychosexual disease.

Hospital administrators said the remarkably high turnout, which included many survivors and their new opposite-sex spouses, would allow the gayness treatment center to focus on developing new, more effective techniques to cure sufferers of their deviant lifestyle choice.

"Today's walk marks another important step in our continuing battle to make gayness a thing of the past," said hospital president Kenneth P. Strickland, who like many in attendance was wearing a gray ex-gay-awareness ribbon. "Thanks to the groundbreaking research these events make possible, perhaps in 10 or 15 years people who realize they're attracted to members of their own gender can have a shot at leading long, heterosexual lives in the eyes of God."

Well represented among the crowd of walkers in matching "5th Annual Walk to Cure Gayness" collared button-down shirts and khaki slacks were families and friends who had lost loved ones to the illness over the years. As they made their way through downtown Marietta cheered on by volunteers screaming about the evils of sodomy, some took a moment to remember those who had succumbed to the salvation-ending affliction.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/evangelical-hospital-holds-5th-annual-gayness-cure,29214/?ref=auto

Even though it's the Onion, still makes one wonder...

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Evangelical Hospital Holds 5th Annual Gayness Cure Walk (Original Post) William769 Aug 2012 OP
The Onion is getting too close to reality nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #1
Yep, I had no difficulty believing the headline until I saw the link slackmaster Aug 2012 #2
I absolutely believed that headline. GreenPartyVoter Aug 2012 #3
I swear I thought that headline was real, LeftofObama Aug 2012 #4
From another article. William769 Aug 2012 #5
 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
2. Yep, I had no difficulty believing the headline until I saw the link
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 06:30 PM
Aug 2012

Even now I could probably be persuaded to believe it.

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