Why Homosexuality is NOT a DISEASE

So I picked up a copy of “Coming out Straight” at the local library. I can see why Rachel Maddow ripped the guy a new one. The book’s premise is that homosexuality is some kind of deeply ingrained psychological disease. He used one of his former “patients” (or, as I see it, victim) to argue that his attraction to men was a psychological reaction to a dysfunctional family. Sadly, I can see why the author would see this as a logical conclusion. For many survivors of sexual trauma, usually women, attraction to the same sex can be a way to deal with pain. I don’t know if this applies to men. But, my point is that this is no reason to think gays need to be reformed into straights. Even if same sex attraction is a coping mechanism – and, in all honesty, a dysfunctional family is really reaching – it’s still a fulfilling source of sexual satisfication. Why should anyone be so eager to take that away?

There is a overwhleming gay hysteria in Ameria and it’s despicable. People seem to have forgotten that all of us are unique individual with different ways of getting satisfaction. Telling gays their sexual feelings are some kind of psychological abnormality is ridiculous. I wonder if the author of this book has ever talked to incest survivors and really listened. For incest survivors their sexuality can be a source of pain. They wonder if the years of abuse made them this way. There is no way to describe the pain this questioning can cause. The best thing any of us can do is encourage acceptance, not condemnation.

Homosexuality is – just like straight sexuality – a natural expression of our desire to feel satisfied. It’s not the result of some deep, dark, psychological disease. Nobody needs to be reformed because they happen to like the same sex. It takes all types to make this world complete.