BARBARA WEICKSEL
So, let me see if I have this correct…
If I use Equine Assisted Psychotherapy – which is sessions involving the stroking of horses – this will aid in the “curing” the “addiction” of my homosexuality.
So says Raymond Bell, the Pastor of the Cowboy Church of Virginia. (I can’t make this up!)
Bell doesn’t believe that homosexuality is genetic, he believes: “Homosexuality is actually a type of addiction. It is not ‘curable’ as a disease because it is a ‘choice driven’ by the person.
If the stroking of the horses doesn’t work for you – you could try one of the following:
- Riding a Bicycle – Graeme Hammond was an American neurologist who believed that “homosexuality was rooted in nervous exhaustion and that bicycle exercise would restore health and heterosexuality.”
- Hong Kong had a government-sponsored training session on conversion therapy. One of the techniques suggested for cutting homosexuality were cold showers, prayer, and abstinence.
- Want to “pray away the gay?” There still is an app for that (and there used to be another). If you don’t have an iPhone to be able to get the app, you can go to Marcus Bachmann’s conversion clinic. “Pray the gay away!” has become the battle cry of the conversion therapy movement.
The fact that people feel they need to “cure” me makes my head hurt.
In the 1800’s physician Denslow Lewis was of the opinion that women who were brought up in wealthy homes could develop “sexual hyperesthesia (excessive sensitivity to stimuli) and become lesbians.”
The good doctor would prescribed “cocaine solutions, saline cathartics, the surgical “liberation” of adherent clitorises, or even the administration of strychnine by hypodermic” in order to cure these afflicted women. Needless to say, one woman went insane and died in an asylum, and he claimed that some of his patients were “indeed cured” and became wives and mothers. One has to wonder if they simply went with the men to stop the madness.
With all the inroads the LGBT community has made in the past year – this nonsense is just insulting beyond words.
Will we ever be seen as people like everyone else? Human beings with feelings and emotions like the rest of the world? Will these religious types ever understand that their god made us just the way we are – just as he made them.
I mean, if we have to accept them with all their stupidity and hatred why is it so hard for them to see us as gay?
It’s a New Year — let’s put the horses out to pasture there partner!
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That’s the dumbest thing I ever read.
What the fuck?
This isn’t completely stupid at all…
How does this explain the gay cowboys then? Lmao
Stroking the horse’s what…??
whaa? lol, smh
I’m sure the International gay Rodeo Association would be interested knowing about this. http://igra.com/
¿Qué carajo?
Can we cure the dumbfucks that suggested this of their stupidity?
What kind of shit is this
Ummmm really I didn’t know “the gay” was a sickness?
lmao
It didn’t help me at the bar last night. . .
What a wack job
the play “Equus” comes to mind…
Huh? There’s no cure for anyone.
I stroked a few men that are hung like horses, does that count?
just another idiot trying to get his name in print and bashing gays to do it.
This ignorant asshat puts a bad spin on the cowboy churches; I’m ashamed that he represents them.
Haha, I think someone needs to go read up on a certain little play called Equus before touting horse stroking/riding/ etc. as cure for homosexuality.
He should try getting trampled by a horse. It cures stupidity.
Where do these idiots come up with this shit? My cure for the fiscal cliff is to tax stupidity. That will wipe out the defecit and give us a surplus in a single year.
I hope next year the cure will be puppy kisses bc puppy kisses are so dang cute!
NOT. my first love are horses, my second is making love to women.
Talk about fleecing people. It’s all asinine.
lonesome cowboys….andy warhol version comes to mind.
how can a horse give consent about wanting his gay stroked away I wonder
OK, so stroking a horse cures homosexuality? Wow. Glue is made from horses, so if I sniff the glue, will that work too or will I just come up with stupid shit as a cure for gayness?
Bahahahahahaha!!!!! OMG, they get funnier and FUNNIER!!!! Hahahahahaha
o-0 so stupid!
Seems to me that stroking a stud makes you gay not dehomosexualized. just sayin
Ennis Delmar will disagree with you
This is all very well, but has anyone found a cure for ‘the straight’ yet?
WOW….just WOW!!! I couldnt even make it 2 paragraphs into this super lame article. If any one ever asks you if stupidity still exists just point them to this story!!!!
Great Would not like to try After all these years of homsexuality
Not according to Brokeback Mountain….
that just does not sound right
jajajajaja…
@Larissa,lmfao
Self Loathing Bigots.
that ending ruined it. we were not created by anything and there is no proof a god
*of a
That’s funny, I stroke my “horse” everyday and I’m still gay.
Really, it hasn’t done a thing for me in the 60+ years I’ve been doing that. I will say it has made me very happy though.
Low
Okay, I stroked a horse and now all I want to do is run around a track. I can’t resist the urge to whinny and I have a strange craving for oats.
Well, that explains it. I must not have spent enough time with my horses growing up :P
I am visiting a farm RIGHT NOW! I’ve been petting and stroking the horses and all the other animals. Still gay. Not only that, they have miniature Horses here and those are some gay animals.
Lmfao really?
Lol. Crazy…..
What does stroking a cowboy do?
SERIOUSLY??!!!@#?? What are they going to come up with…. next?
how does a horse give consent that he wants his gay stroked away
This is so ridiculous that it’s hilarious.
So, if my gayness doesn’t go away does that mean I have to pet two horses?
I think if I rode them I’d explode into a shower of rainbows and destroy the ranch.