Originally published at: Northern Ireland's DUP thinks "praying away the gay" is totally cool | Boing Boing
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To paraphrase Goethe, one notices the intention and is disgruntled.
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They must have been inspired by all the success America has had praying away the mass shootings. /s
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Praying away the gay gives way far too quickly to beating away the gay, then legislating away the gay. Religion and politics need to be kept far away from each other.
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Because they’re all predicated on the same misguided concept; that homosexuality is an aberration or flaw to be corrected, not an intrinsic part of human nature that has analogues in numerous other life forms.
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Maybe try praying away the stupid?
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Well, technically they’re correct–it’s not therapy, and it’s not going to cause any conversions.
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Unfortunately, most of the people who use prayer to deal with social phenomena are especially afflicted by the stupid.
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Like the capricious and mean-spirited deity they worship, the religious bigots giveth, the religious bigots taketh away.
Between this and Brexit, the DUP seems to be The Party of Trying to Have Things Both Ways.
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Whoa there, there are thoughts as well as prayers. Might’ve been the thoughts.
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Your second sentence does a neat job of summarizing the unionists.
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But wait, didn’t Brexit somehow magically dispel all the gay? Someone shoulda put it on a bus, at least.
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