{"id":9711,"date":"2019-06-03T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:23:43","slug":"sick-for-the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9711\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick for the Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-48491731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Ann Widdecombe has come under fire after she suggested science could &#8220;produce an answer&#8221; to being gay.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Sky News,\u00a0the newly elected Brexit Party MEP\u00a0was asked about previous comments she made concerning gay conversion therapy.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had &#8220;pointed out that there was a time when it was thought impossible for men to become women&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Luke Pollard said Ms Widdecombe was &#8220;continuing her sick anti-LGBT campaign&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t be bothered to look at what Widdecombe actually said, but I&#8217;d put a hundred quid on her words being twisted by the media so the ranks of the permanently offended and grifting MPs like Luke Pollard have something to be outraged about.<\/p>\n<p>What would be interesting, though, is how many gay men and women would choose to take a &#8220;cure&#8221; for homosexuality if one existed. In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbpeterson.com\/podcast\/s2-e9-a-conversation-with-milo-yiannopoulos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent interview<\/a> with Jordan Peterson, Milo Yiannopoulos said he wishes there had been a simple cure for his own homosexuality because it would have made his teenage years much easier to bear. I am sure he is not alone, and I suspect there is a large number of married men who wish they could suppress the homosexual urges which threaten to destroy their family. If a simple and effective &#8220;cure&#8221; could be found, I think it would prove extremely popular among both men and women, even in the enlightened west.<\/p>\n<p>But I am equally sure that if such a cure were discovered the LGBT lobby would fight tooth and nail for it to be banned, denying it to those who would prefer to live a straight life. You can get a hint of the underlying attitudes in tweets like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We don\u2019t need a cure for love. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LoveWins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LoveWins<\/a> ????????? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnnWiddecombe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnnWiddecombe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ridge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justine Greening (@JustineGreening) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustineGreening\/status\/1135198972052738050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWho&#8217;s this we, then? Now I can understand the reaction of gays to anything which smacks of &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221;, but if men can supposedly undergo treatment to become women and vice versa it&#8217;s hardly beyond the realms of science to come up with a cure for homosexuality, particularly for those who aren&#8217;t too far along the spectrum. Unless this is forced on people I don&#8217;t see why it&#8217;s a bad thing, let alone discussion of it.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is the LGBT movement is nowadays a political movement seeking power, money, and privilege at the expense of everyone else. If something comes along to thin their ranks of unwilling footsoldiers, they&#8217;ll naturally oppose it. This stopped being about freedom a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Ann Widdecombe has come under fire after she suggested science could &#8220;produce an answer&#8221; to being gay. 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