DAVE G – Don’t just quote authorities, but find us some data that validate your statements. Ugandans right now are making this claim while their AIDS rate is climbing due to heterosexuals. Gays are too small of a group to have the impact you propose.

It is the case that many heterosexuals have multiple partners and many gay people do not. We should, as far as it is appropriate to do so, evaluate the contribution people make to ‘society’ on the basis of their behaviour and treatment of others, not on that of their (intrinsic, many would argue) sexuality. That is surely the proper moral-philosophical (and thus, IMHO, Christian) approach.

My therapist introduced me to Reparative Therapy this Spring. I explained it to my parents, having no idea how hurt they would become (they never let on that they actually were hurt initially, especially my father). Having studied the subject over the summer, I came to highly suspect the theory, especially having witnessed so many high-profile “ex-gay” success stories, which then turned out to be bunk.

Having recently finished Justin Lee’s “Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate,” I have become convinced that the theory *actually is* bunk. His chapter “Justin in Exgayland” confirmed my suspicions regarding “ex-gays” and Reparative Drive Therapy, especially since Justin’s childhood was entirely absent of the very hermeneutic for the theory.

I don’t recall anyone asking Aaron McQuade (the bald gentleman on the Dr. Oz show this afternoon) if he still finds men attractive, though he claims to have been helped by Reparative Therapy, and is now married to a woman. For me, that is the key issue. Not that a same-sex attracted person could find someone of the opposite sex attractive, and even marry that individual, but whether an attraction for the same sex is retained.