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Archae

(46,314 posts)
Wed May 13, 2015, 10:36 AM May 2015

Just 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

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Just when you thought the "Pray away the gay" people were screwy... (Original Post) Archae May 2015 OP
So, it "cures" their homosexuality and turns them on to "bestiality" as they "stroke" horses? world wide wally May 2015 #1
I saw a roadside sign for this place the last time I was in Roanoke underpants May 2015 #2
Oh wow, the "Encyclopedia of American Loons" tularetom May 2015 #3
I can't tell if he has seen......or not seen......Equus. n/t dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #4
However the therapy only works if you're patient and like horses TlalocW May 2015 #5
"Yippee-ki-oh-KY!" -- Blanche Deveraux Behind the Aegis May 2015 #6
Alan Strang lives.... Bluenorthwest May 2015 #7
A friend at work tried to pray away his gay for ten years AgingAmerican May 2015 #8

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)
1. So, it "cures" their homosexuality and turns them on to "bestiality" as they "stroke" horses?
Wed May 13, 2015, 10:45 AM
May 2015

And this isn't even in Texas!

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
3. Oh wow, the "Encyclopedia of American Loons"
Wed May 13, 2015, 10:54 AM
May 2015

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)
4. I can't tell if he has seen......or not seen......Equus. n/t
Wed May 13, 2015, 11:31 AM
May 2015

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)
5. However the therapy only works if you're patient and like horses
Wed May 13, 2015, 02:09 PM
May 2015

So you have to be equanimous as well as equine-amorous.

TlalocW

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
8. A friend at work tried to pray away his gay for ten years
Wed May 13, 2015, 02:32 PM
May 2015

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.

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