May 18, 2007  |  By: KEVIN NAFF  | COMMENTS     

globe and vaporized with bombs. This scattered their radioactive souls, or thetans, until they were caught in electronic traps set up around the atmosphere and ‘implanted’ with a number of false ideas — including the concepts of God, Christ and organized religion.”

There’s no law against being bizarre or crazy, so why should gays care about Scientology and this latest row? Because the so-called church has helped advance the false notion that homosexuality can be cured. Whether it’s coming from Scientologists or the group Parents & Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, it’s a reckless claim long ago debunked by every credible medical association in the world. And the “ex-gays” are not a dim bunch of 1950s holdovers quietly praying for salvation. They are active in chapters around the country, filing lawsuits to force their backward, unscientific views into high schools.

PFOX filed a lawsuit this month against a Northern Virginia school board for refusing to distribute its fliers to high school students there. And in progressive Montgomery County, Md., school officials have endured a lengthy, litigious ordeal just because they wanted to teach a few benign facts about homosexuality in health classes. 

Those who espouse therapy as a means for “curing” homosexuality conveniently ignore the implications of their own logic. If you can be cured of being gay, then it follows that after a few weeks of comparable therapy, that straights can be cured of heterosexuality.

Whether it’s the Church of Scientology, PFOX or Love in Action espousing the false notion that sexual orientation is changeable, it’s important for the rest of us to denounce and counter their false claims so that another generation of gay kids doesn’t grow up on a diet of destructive lies about the true nature of human sexuality.