Gay aversion therapy! What rot! Teenagers thinking they might be gay when they are probably not! What rot! Politicians sticking their noses in! What rot! A fundamentalist medicine man writing an article about it! What rot! About 10% of the population is probably homosexual. All the other prats are just trendies who will grow up one day. The more talk about it; the more attention the prats are given, the longer it will take to rid ourselves of this 'gay', attention-seeking crap.

You can't Pray the Gay away. Given the authors obsession with this topic I think it might be healthy for the author to explore his sexuality a bit more perhaps he is suppressing feelings, because of his believe in a god that isn't there?

As soon as I read the title of this article, I thought yep this is written by an old religious bloke who wants to save the gays from a life in hell. I looked up one of the specialists noted by the author - Savin-Williams, and Wikipedia stated :
"Savin-Williams earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Missouri in 1971. He later earned an MA in Religious Studies in 1973...". Exactly.

Mind you, I do agree with the fact that some teenagers are confused about their sexual feelings about either gender at times, because they have such strong friendships with both genders during these difficult years.

However, I think we all know of some kids we went to school with that everyone knew would have to be gay, whether they liked it or not. They had two choices. Either they formed attachments with their own gender and just lived as they were born to, or they tried to suppress these feelings and forced themselves to have relationships with the opposite gender in order to please their family, friends, church and the wider society...but live a lie, and lie about their attraction to their spouses. How awful.

They could of course have 'counseling' to try to 'cure' them of their sexual disease, as has been tried and failed for hundreds of years. These whack-job doctors gave them electric shock therapy to their brains and genitals, and various other forms of mental and physical torture.
The government is right to deny funding for this form of exorcism.
It doesn't work in the long term, and is a huge waste of money.

As it was reported, the real objection of the American Psychological Association was not that the gay conversion therapy was harmful, but that there was no evidence of effectiveness. In other words, it is fraudulent to claim that you can change people's sexual orientation, even if they are willing to give you money to do so. There might also be issues of abuse if minors are subjected to gay conversion therapy against their will.

Gay conversion therapy is about as effective as homeopathy. There will always be a few quacks and gullible idiots who believe in such nonsense, but no responsible GP should be promoting treatments that are not efficacious. Physicians who place their political and religious beliefs above medical science should be tarred and feathered.

'About 10% of the population is probably homosexual. '

Does that include Saudi Arabia and Iran ttbn or just where the choice of this lifestyle is promoted and even encouraged by perverted minds.