Reply #18: Everytime I read a story like this it makes me sick and reminds ... [View All]

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me of a speech I heard on Boston Legal.

Let me get on my soapbox, I do it once a week. After all this is vintage soapbox stuff. We have god, politics and money, and homosexuality.

Has anyone ever heard of restless leg syndrome? It’s where you move your leg about in your sleep. It’s awful, and you may have it. It may not keep you awake at night, it might not harm you in any way, probably won’t harm you in the slightest. Nonetheless it’s awful the pharmaceutical companies have deemed it so. So they developed a drug and you simply must take it.

If you haven’t of restless leg syndrome, you probably have attention deficit disorder. We have a lot of drugs for that one, you must take them.

Jenny, you looked depressed.
Alex, you’re not sleeping enough.
Gretchen, you think you’re shy, but you actually have Social Anxiety Disorder.
Mark, you say you have a weak stream when you urinate.
Joseph, Irritable bowel syndrome you say?

You have all kinds of ailments you don’t know about. Luckily we have pills for all of them. There’s actually a pill that helps you forget, you can take that to forget that you even had restless leg syndrome, or irritable bowels.

That brings us to same sex attraction disorder. Wow what a fancy name, it even makes it sound official. What troubles me is why haven’t the pharmaceutical companies made a pill to cure you of it?

Clearly they are in the business of selling sickness, if there were a profit to be made they would make it. With an estimated gay population of 10 million in the US alone, there is surely a market for it.

Could it be that they can’t cure it?

Well not to worry, if big pharmaceutical can’t, then most certainly big religion can.

Well big religion is trying; after all they are the ones who coined the term “same sex attraction disorder”- that’s a very good name. It’s important to give it a good name. It’s the first step in disqualifying homosexuals as a segment of the population and telling them that they have a disease.

It makes homosexuals look less like people, and more like a bad case of the flu. It has terrible and awful symptoms, but nonetheless the Evangelical church say it is curable.

Never mind that one of the President’s most trusted spiritual advisors’ was himself caught in a homosexual relationship, or that a republican congressman was writing naughty e-mails to an underage male page- I was told it was curable- at least that’s what they told me down at the church.

Well you can legislate against it, you can go home to your wife and pretend that it feels right, you can join a convent and take a vow of celibacy, you can give it a clever name and treat people for it, you can drive around on a Saturday night with a baseball bat and try and beat it out of some poor soul,

Only in America, only in a country that overtly and notoriously celebrates its prejudice by proposing constitutional amendments against a class of people to limit their freedoms.

God Bless us all- Home of the brave- Shame on you

I hope the churches that are attempting to cure this offers a money back guarantee, and has thrown in a blender as a parting gift.