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In reply to the discussion: California becomes First State in Nation to Ban 'Gay Cure' Therapy for Children [View all]primavera
(5,191 posts)If, in fact, "both groups had some validity to their argument," then you'd be right that some middle ground might be appropriate. But I strongly disagree that this is the case. I think Americans need to be watchful of their tendency to believe that there must surely be two sides to every debate and therefore the truth must always lie somewhere in the middle. This fallacy blinds Americans to the reality that, in many instances, one side is simply wrong - 100% wrong. I'm sorry, but the world isn't flat, never has been, never will be. The universe does not revolve around the earth. The Holocaust did occur. And homosexuality is not an illness for which one needs to be "cured." There is no rational evidence, repeat, none, to support such a conclusion. Not merely some, but all evidence supports the irrefutable conclusion that homosexuality is a perfectly natural phenomenon occurring throughout the natural history of our own species and countless other species. The "other side of the argument" has absolutely nothing upon which to base its position other than small-minded prejudice and primitive superstition of the same variety that gave us the Salem Witch Trials. It has no place in an enlightened civilization and deserves no legitimization whatsoever.