If "they" can successfully "reorient" gay people, why don't they fix pedophiles?

[elehhhhna]

If they can reprogram your sexuality, why aren't they doing so for the inarguably perverted pedos?

Even "they" acknowledge that pedos are the worst of abominations. Why are they focusing on "fixing" consenting adults who harm no one? What are their priorities?

[fishnfla]

1. hugely bad analogy eom

[we can do it]

3. WHY?

[xultar]

6. Well first of all being a pedophile is a crime. Second it isn't a sexual orientation.

[elehhhhna]

10. if it's about changing what one finds sexually attractive,

why wouldn't it work regardless of the subject?

[we can do it]

18. I Took It Wrong, Neither Can Be Fixed, But Both Are Treated As Crimes

[xultar]

4. [phone]

[elehhhhna]

5. i know, but you get the question, right?

in no way am I trying to insult gay people here.

[PeaceNikki]

7. Agreed.

:puke:

[DireStrike]

11. It's offensive here, but would be effective against certain right-wing arguments.

[elehhhhna]

15. i know it's dicey, but it's an argument that would shut them down,

yes?

[xultar]

2. Pedophiles are mostly straight. Maybe if they turned them gay they wouldn't be a

issue.

[HopeHoops]

8. They call that castration. Some places do it.

I'm not in favor of it for the same reason I oppose the death penalty - the justice system (if there is one) gets it wrong way too often.

[DailyGrind51]

9. Because there is nothing wrong with gay people!

[Prism]

12. I understand what you're getting at

I'm pretty jumpy about pedophilia and homosexuality appearing anywhere near each other, but I take your point in good faith.

And it is true. If a person can simply reorient their sexual feelings and impulses via these methods touted by religious organization, it does beg the question why there's a large, well-funded campaign focused on homosexuality rather than sexual behavior that is considered harmful by 99.99999% of the population.

One would think there is a far greater interest in protecting children than intervening with consenting adults.

However, there's a fairly simple answer to this question. Many anti-gay religious conservatives, if you dig deep enough into their beliefs, still hold a variation of the 1950s view that homosexuality and pedophilia are virtually synonymous. Read the literature (if you've the stomach for it), look at their anti-marriage campaigns in places like Maine. Their message is always distilled thusly:

"The gays are coming after your children."

They don't make much of a separation there. Deviance is deviance, and once you've crossed the same-sex thresh hold, children are logically the next step in the path to Satan.

It's disgusting, but widespread in conservative religious circles.

[elehhhhna]

16. thank you, prism, for that thoughtful reply.

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[BOSSHOG]

14. Let me take a stab at this

Because people with conservative values don't "believe" that pedophilia is a problem?

[racaulk]

17. Because "they" maintain that gay people are pedophiles, and vice versa.

Therefore, by "fixing" gay people, they supposedly solve the problem of pedophilia.