By the way, reading this thread has truly worried me. My little girl is left handed.

Anyone hits her for that and I I'll gladly go to jail for kicking the shit out of them.

Yeah, she is left handed, but she far ahead of the rest of her class and and her teachers have repeatedly told me such.

Wanting a "cure" for homosexuality sends a message that there's something wrong with being homosexual. We're in 2013 and that kind of mentality should not exist anymore.

A community that doesn't care about the other person's sexuality would be perfect. But we all know that won't happen.

That's a difficult decision though... I would go with the bolded.

What a terrible argument.

Alzheimer's disease is a lethal condition. Seeking treatment can prolong death. Depression can lead to suicide, and treating depression can literally save lives. Schizophrenia can endanger the patient and those around him or her (not to mention the fact that it is a terrible, painful thing to watch happen, which I can attest to from experience).

And your "being gay precludes being straight" argument is just ludicrous. What about those who are bisexual? What about people with red hair, isn't there 'condition' precluding them from growing black hair?

call it how you want, if there are gay people who want to be straight they have the same problem as straight people who want to be bi or gay. so, however you want to call this "transformation", the definition would be the same for both directions. that's how i think about that.

For some reason, this makes me think of the Xmen 3 movie...

In response, wouldn't a homosexual only want to be heterosexual because that's the only thing society sees as "normal" at the moment? I wouldn't say that's the fault of the homosexual. Of course if they want that choice, then they could have it, but I'd say, society still needs to mature a lot itself first.

Luckily, society has developed a little since then, and recognised that left-handedness is not "wrong" or "a sin", but merely a state of the mind and should not be forcibly altered.

No offense to those who live their lives based on it, but tell that to those who live their lived based on a 2000+ year old book...

I used to work in a Mental Health Center for Volunteer Work. I've also seen a few Bi Polar people live with their desease, but never without medication, and I wouldn't exactly call their lives creative. Most Bi Polar patients psycically harm others around them, and often have very unhealthy relationship with people near them because even when their family understand the disorder, when you see a loved one get angry at you and yell at you for almost no reason, it will hurt family ties. If there is a small creative positive here, it's not worth all the Negatives and life shattering conditions. No one should be encouraged to live with the disorder, and at a slight loss of creativity, everyone should be cured. No Bruises and Domestic Disturbances for Art.

As for Schizophrenic people, out of all the patients who came in, I only ever met 1 patient who wasn't a return patient, and I have not met a single schizophrenic person who was able to live with their illness. This type of condition really messes you up, I've seen people yell at God, call their families clones, wear boxing helmets to protect themselves from evil demons, and even see people communicate to dogs via telekenisis. This is not a condition to joke about, and definatly one which needs to be rid from out human population. It has NO positive.

I have learned with experience to avoid arguing with those people about pretty much anything lol