TWO Protest Against NARTH In Dallas

Several dozen people demonstrated outside the DFW Airport Marriott, where the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) held its annual conference. Members discussed the use of therapy to suppress someone's homosexual desires. The message from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups protesting the events is that homosexuality needs no cure because it is not an illness and that attempts to convert gays is destructive and based on quack science.

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[kd1s]

My only experience with so called reparative therapies is one off.

A family friend tried to escape being gay but two things resulted. First, his conversion to heterosexuality did not take, and second it served to enhance his psychological problems.

It's dangerous stuff.

[gcoppinger]

Thanks for the video, Wayne! You did a great job. I read there were only 50 or so people in that hotel that actually showed up for NARTH. We had about that many in our protest.

[NBLP7096]

I don't blame them for protesting Darth Vader. That guy was scary!!! What with the black armor and the cape and the heavy breathing! Brrrrrrr. Scary stuff!

Wait? What? Darth? It is Darth people are afraid of, right?

Narth? WTF?

[zharlow5301]

@djo9c1

@djo9c1 Usually, what happens with people from NARTH is they are pressured or convinced to attend this, usually though people using guilt, damnation est. This is a organization that takes a group and convinces them further that who they are is wrong. It has no place or qualification as a "therapy" and deserves to be protested.

[JoeyBoya]

Narth is gross wrong and hateful and will soon be a dinosaur... Sorry to anyone who was ever exposed to this hate group

[djo9c1]

Shame on those protesters. If gay people want to become straight, then respect their right to do so. Nobody (at least on behalf of NARTH) is saying that THEY have to become straight. These people claim to be all about demanding tolerance for other people's lives and decisions, yet they're debunking those who are on a mission to provide help to those who want it. Hypocrites who can't mind their own business.

Just really desperate to defend their agenda I guess.

[angerock49]

Narth is the hell O.O

They're creating closets for gay !

[rudeawakeningxxx]

reparative therapy is a bunch of bull. the people who advocate it are insane. they need to be locked up.

[rudeawakeningxxx]

are you fucking high

[rudeawakeningxxx]

cuz theyre fuckin fabulous. seriously why DO gay ppl talk like that

[thealphacrow]

-Dr. Gerard Van Den Aardweg "Battle for Normality"

-Richard Cohen "Coming out Straight"

-John Heard "Dreadnought"

[Livingthedream84]

Well.....so you're saying that you have a choice for your orientation? So when did you decide to be straight? Assuming you are, I believe you were born that way don't you? People are born LGBT all the time. Face it, it's real.

Brenna