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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust when you thought the "Pray away the gay" people were screwy...
Add in horses, and you get this guy.
#1365: Raymond Bell
Reparative therapy is the idea that homosexuality and transgenderism can and should be cured. There are plenty of such therapies out there, of course; none of them work, and even the guiding idea is, needless to say, based on pure, unsupportable bigotry, but that has, once again needless to say, not stopped several fundamentalist bigots from setting up reparative therapy camps where parents can send their children to be abused.
Raymond Bell is a pastor of the Cowboy Church of Virginia (yes!), and has his own version of reparative therapy: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP). Yup, Bell thinks gay kids can be turned straight by hanging around with horses (presumably not ponies). How it is supposed to work is a bit unclear, but according to Bell homosexuality is actually a type of addiction. It is not curable as a disease because it is a choice driven by the person, and EAP to identify how a person got involved in homosexuality to begin with; for example, because of rape, abandonment, lacking a male role model, abuse, and having low self-esteem. Then they ride and stroke horses and turn straight, apparently. So there.
http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2015/05/1365-raymond-bell.html
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)And this isn't even in Texas!
underpants
(182,736 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I didn't even know such a thing existed but it appears that you have provided me with hours of interweb amusement for which I thank you.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)in which character Alan Strang constructs a personal theology involving the horses and the supreme godhead, "Equus".
Alan sees the horses as representative of God and confuses his adoration of his "God" with sexual attraction.
TlalocW
(15,379 posts)So you have to be equanimous as well as equine-amorous.
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Behind the Aegis
(53,939 posts)Love Cowboys!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Eventually he came to the point of considering suicide, said, 'Fuck this', and came out.
He is happy now and transformed from a talking point spewing right winger, to a well reasoned liberal.