Okay. Let’s put a stop to this NOW. PMs, emails, or…
TEH BOARD.
…or lockage. Your choice.
Nanohedron:
Okay. Let’s put a stop to this NOW. PMs, emails, or…
TEH BOARD.
…or lockage. Your choice.
I agree with you Nanohedron. I’ve said my piece. I’m surprised you let this thread go as far as it did. If you’re going to tolerated it for one though, you should expect that someone else will want to have their say as well. Nuff said. Lets play by the rules.
You know, I’m trying to come up with a nice friendly nickname with a good ring to it for you, and all I can come up with is “Hampster”. May I call you that?
What is so controversial about a public doof?? This forum makes fun of doofs on YouTube and such all the time…We aint talking about a Senator, …Otherwise I wouldnever have posted it…
Oh well, your wish is your demand.
Its a shame as I always looked forward to watching the Rosie O’Donnell show back in the day but then she started to open her mouth about politics and I stopped listening to her. She’s slowly but surely losing her audience…not to mention her career. She has a right to her own opinions but she doesn’t realize that many people who at one time enjoyed her jokes are annoyed by her and don’t agree with her.
Even as a staunch Democrat, I couldn’t agree with you more. With “friends” like that, who needs enemies?
Jack
May 31, 2007, 9:15pm
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It’s not absurd, it’s reality. Ask the American Psychological Association or any other respectable mainstream psychological group.
The American Psychological Association:
Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?
No, human beings can not choose to be either gay or straight. Sexual orientation emerges for most people in early adolescence without any prior sexual experience. Although we can choose whether to act on our feelings, psychologists do not consider sexual orientation to be a conscious choice that can be voluntarily changed.
No. Even though most homosexuals live successful, happy lives, some homosexual or bisexual people may seek to change their sexual orientation through therapy, sometimes pressured by the influence of family members or religious groups to try and do so. The reality is that homosexuality is not an illness. It does not require treatment and is not changeable.
However, not all gay, lesbian, and bisexual people who seek assistance from a mental health professional want to change their sexual orientation. Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people may seek psychological help with the coming out process or for strategies to deal with prejudice, but most go into therapy for the same reasons and life issues that bring straight people to mental health professionals.
What About So-Called “Conversion Therapies”?
Some therapists who undertake so-called conversion therapy report that they have been able to change their clients’ sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. Close scrutiny of these reports however show several factors that cast doubt on their claims. For example, many of the claims come from organizations with an ideological perspective which condemns homosexuality. Furthermore, their claims are poorly documented. For example, treatment outcome is not followed and reported overtime as would be the standard to test the validity of any mental health intervention.
The American Psychological Association is concerned about such therapies and their potential harm to patients. In 1997, the Association’s Council of Representatives passed a resolution reaffirming psychology’s opposition to homophobia in treatment and spelling out a client’s right to unbiased treatment and self-determination. Any person who enters into therapy to deal with issues of sexual orientation has a right to expect that such therapy would take place in a professionally neutral environment absent of any social bias.
From: http://www.apa.org/topics/orientation.html
Anyway, since we’re all voting, I now vote for this thread to be locked.
Cranberry:
It’s not absurd, it’s reality. Ask the American Psychological Association or any other respectable mainstream psychological group.
The American Psychological Association:
Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?
No, human beings can not choose to be either gay or straight. Sexual orientation emerges for most people in early adolescence without any prior sexual experience. Although we can choose whether to act on our feelings, psychologists do not consider sexual orientation to be a conscious choice that can be voluntarily changed.
No. Even though most homosexuals live successful, happy lives, some homosexual or bisexual people may seek to change their sexual orientation through therapy, sometimes pressured by the influence of family members or religious groups to try and do so. The reality is that homosexuality is not an illness. It does not require treatment and is not changeable.
However, not all gay, lesbian, and bisexual people who seek assistance from a mental health professional want to change their sexual orientation. Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people may seek psychological help with the coming out process or for strategies to deal with prejudice, but most go into therapy for the same reasons and life issues that bring straight people to mental health professionals.
What About So-Called “Conversion Therapies”?
Some therapists who undertake so-called conversion therapy report that they have been able to change their clients’ sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. Close scrutiny of these reports however show several factors that cast doubt on their claims. For example, many of the claims come from organizations with an ideological perspective which condemns homosexuality. Furthermore, their claims are poorly documented. For example, treatment outcome is not followed and reported overtime as would be the standard to test the validity of any mental health intervention.
The American Psychological Association is concerned about such therapies and their potential harm to patients. In 1997, the Association’s Council of Representatives passed a resolution reaffirming psychology’s opposition to homophobia in treatment and spelling out a client’s right to unbiased treatment and self-determination. Any person who enters into therapy to deal with issues of sexual orientation has a right to expect that such therapy would take place in a professionally neutral environment absent of any social bias.
From: http://www.apa.org/topics/orientation.html
Anyway, since we’re all voting, I now vote for this thread to be locked.
I don’t think the original intention of the OP was to get into a discussion about this. Besides an off-the-cuff joke made by another poster, you were the one that opened this can of worms.
This wasn’t controversial until you made it controversial. My suggestion would be that someone merely delete the posts that engender controversy. There is, after all, ample precedent for selective deletion by request.
The nice pictures of Rosie can stay.
Denny
May 31, 2007, 9:51pm
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in my experience these are in no way exclusive of each other
Jack
June 1, 2007, 1:10am
34
This is absolutely true!!
Dale
June 1, 2007, 1:52am
35
This needs to wind on down pronto and move to Congrats’s board.
Jack
June 1, 2007, 1:54am
36
I don’t know why, but I can’t post over there (I registered the other day). There’s some kind of block, or something. So I’m just dropping it and not reading this thread again.
