{"id":72665,"date":"2019-11-21T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72665"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:42:47","slug":"minneapolis-lets-get-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72665","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis: Let’s Get Scientific!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The City of Minneapolis is likely going to vote to bar “conversion therapy” for people under 18<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to add a bit of emphasis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The controversial practice aims to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation from gay to straight.\u00a0It has drawn the ire of many in the LGBT community and others,\u00a0who say it doesn\u2019t work,\u00a0has no scientific basis<\/strong>,\u00a0and amounts to psychological torture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the “scientific proof” one way or the other is all “social science”, which isn’t “science” at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if it’s “science” we’re concerned with, it’s worth noting that the idea that “homosexuality is genetic” is a political, not scientific, conclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with that out of the way – I don’t disagree. Society has known for decades that forcing someone to act like someone they’re intrinsically not is a terrible thing that causes horrendous psychiatric damage when forced upon the subject. This was generally well-known – if frequently contested or ignored – even when I was in high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As, indeed, the MPR story on the subject notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Sanchez of Minneapolis said he wishes such a ban would have been in place when he was a teenager.\u00a0Sanchez,\u00a0who is gay,\u00a0said his father and a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints both urged him to get psychotherapy to change his sexual orientation.<\/em>
It did not involve shock treatments or anything physically invasive,\u00a0but Sanchez said what he went through was damaging because it made him believe he was somehow disordered.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bully for Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now – if “therapy” to “convert” gays to straight-dom is bad, because (social) science…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…then why is forcing boys to act like girls – verbal, cooperative, social, rather than physical, competitive and restless – any better in any way? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because science, and a look at the state of boys and young men today, certainly shows the social catastrophe that a generation of changing and medicating that natural male energy, rather than teaching boys to channel it and use it productively, has had on society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When does that come up on the agenda? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Minneapolis is likely going to vote to bar “conversion therapy” for people under 18. I’m going to add a bit of emphasis: The controversial practice aims to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation from gay to straight.\u00a0It has drawn the ire of many in the LGBT community and others,\u00a0who say it doesn\u2019t work,\u00a0has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72669,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72665\/revisions\/72669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}