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Saturday, November 25, 2006

The Cure

A reader at TPM makes an interesting point in Dobson's pulling out of the "cure" of Ted Haggard:

Okay, so here's Dobson, the leader of America's anti-gay lobby, telling us he's not going to bother working on curing Haggard cuz it'll take too long. This from the "movement" whose only rational argument for discrimination rests entirely on the (wrong) assumption that homosexuality is a behavior of choice -- and demonstrably curable.

You'd think Dobson et al would embrace the opportunity to deploy the latest in Exodus-style conversion therapy, especially on Haggard, one of their own most glaring and needy cases. Imagine the PR value! If the almighty priests of family values can "restore" Haggard, they can restore anyone, guaranteed!

My guess -- everyone knows it's a lost cause. The best they're going to be able to do with Haggard is to re-repress his nature. Back in the box.
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