Your full page ad- anti gay ? (USA Today)

 I would not say that your full page ad - May17, 11A -

    is anti-gay, but I side with the American Psychiatric Association

    in this matter of sexual re-orientation " therapy " for gay

    people. My best friend is gay - I'm not - and he insists that

    he was just born that way. I believe him . To ask him to change

    his homosexuality would, I believe, violate his very soul.

          " And they say all this joy is dangerous " , reads the

    ad. So some gay people found relief in " successful " therapy ?

           Imagine a black person - just born that way - who wakes

    up one morning as a WHITE ?  He might shout : " Free at

    last, thank God , I'm free at last ! "

             Did not schools  once find something " sinister "

    about left-handedness ? What right did a kid have to be

    left-handed in a right-handed world ?

            We already know how one's political orientation can

    be changed . Recall  the movie " The Manchurian Candidate " .

    Or recall the case of Patty Hearst - again in the news.

     She looked HIGH in those old photos - as an anti-capitalist

    radical offing the pigs !

           Sometimes it is just better to accept people who

    are different.