Current mood:

angry

A cure? What the...?
Since it holds some relevence to the yaoi community, I decided that I'd post it here.

A friend of mine sent this link to me, and I was actually really disturbed and shocked when I read it. I was outraged, and I figured... Well, there might be people who promote forms of homosexuality out there that haven't read or heard of this yet.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-210-2524408-523,00.html
"Science told: hands off gay sheep"

In short: scientists think they've discovered how to "cure" homosexuality.

Sad, isn't it? Maybe someone needs to remind them that there's nothing to cure.

From the article: "Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner, said: “These experiments echo Nazi research in the early 1940s which aimed at eradicating homosexuality. They stink of eugenics. There is a danger that extreme homophobic regimes may try to use these experimental results to change the orientation of gay people.”"

EDIT: Here's my point of view in full.
I like men. I always have. I'd rather be gay than straight, even though there's so much prejudice. I found the thought that my breathren of science would even attempt this quite appauling. In fact, while I was reading this, I was actually reminded of the 3rd X-Men movie, which I found akward. However, I found it far more disturbing that they believe it's rightous. Yes, there are some who don't want to be gay, but I hate the idea of a "cure." You can scientifically cure a lot of things. However, many things that might not be a medical condition or problem are "curable," which I find quite disturbing, that, rather than going after something terrible, such as fixing the mind of a rapist or a pedophile, they'd go after funtional homosexual humans.