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Meeker

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2. There are two issues to this. Homophobia, obviously, but also ...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jan 24, 2020, 10:33 AM

Jan 2020

Medical quackery is illegal whether or not it also is an expression of a hateful ideology.

In this case, we have a "treatment" that was tried back in the 1950s as a cure for what was alleged to be a disease.

My point is it was tried and rejected because it was proven scientifically not to work, not because society became enlightened about the nature of being gay. That came later.

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