LOL. Why would anyone care if a place offering a scam remedy was protested? I think it's great! I wish they'd do this to homeopathy dealers too! A scam is a scam...
...gay is NOT contagious.
Any guy who thinks there is a "temptation of homosexuality" is either gay or bi. Any "doctor" who thinks there is a "cure" for something that isn't a disease to begin with, is a quack...and should have the title of doctor revoked from them. I'd say the same of the doctors that proclaim marijuana to be "seriously addictive and dangerous", like that quack on TV, Dr. Drew.
I can understand (and I'm not trying to be insulting to anyone) if you view homosexuality as some sort of genetic personality disorder, wherein the affected engage in sexual behavior not advantageous to reproduction and the continuation of the species. I can't understand thinking it's curable, or even treatable, when it's GENETIC. If you don't think it's genetic, then you obviously didn't go to school with a Puerto Rican boy that talked and had mannerisms like a girl, jumped rope with the girls, and played with dolls when he could get away with it. I did. We went to a Christian grade school together, and we all knew he was gay in 1st grade. He denied it until he was like 20. He was a flamer trying to be straight, because he thought it was wrong. He came out, and everyone was like "who cares dude? We been tellin' you for years you're gay. How could you not notice, you walk and talk like a girl!"
This clinic scams people...therefore, it needs to be shutdown by a fair court system. Fraud is harm, and they are commiting fraud. The protestors only exist because a justice system has previously failed to act.
And don't give me the excuse "he really believes this works, so it's not fraudulent"...I used to have gypsy neighbors, and (sterotypically, but true) they told fortunes out of store front a few blocks from our houses. I knew it was a scam for years, but I was dating one of the their daughters, and she and the rest constantly kept telling me it was real to sell me on it...and they were obviously lying (not good liars either). One time I picked this girl up from the store where they worked, to take her out, and an old lady stumbled out crying. I asked my date "what's wrong with her", she replied "she was talking to her dead husband", and motioned in to the room where her grandmother met with clients. I'm like "how can you do that to people, just lie to them, and take their money, when you know they are emotionally unstable?" She replies "look, you really need to stop all this talk about 'it isn't real'. The bottom line is this is our family business, and you aren't going to stop us anyway."
I broke up with her right there and then.
Like I told her, I can't be associated with people who scam people with the law's protection. I'd rather be associated with theives and thugs, at least they aren't acting like it's okay.
People who run scams like this, whether clairvoyants, homeopathic medicine dealers, or "gay cure" doctors, are TOTALLY aware it's a scam. If they by some miracle are self deluded, they are mentally ill, and require a sentence to a padded room that is equal to the stay in a prison for a scammer. The family I lived next to for a year or two were knowingly scamming everyone they could, not representing it as entertainment, and took old people for a ton of cash. They left town soon after, not because the law gave a shit, but because the neighborhood (and zip code really) had turned on them, and socially they couldn't go anywhere anymore without a scene. Again social norms govern behavior, not laws.
If any of us wish to judge anyone, it shouldn't be people who cornhole other willing adults, it should be the ones cornholing you financially by scamming unwitting vulnerable people.
Good post. Not the reaction you were expecting, eh?
