Is it reasonable to persuade, coerce, or otherwise force a person to attempt to change their sexuality because someone speaking for their invisible friend 2500 years ago in a desert didn't like same-sex attraction?
It's not, but if someone following that religion wants to engage in quack therapies because of their beliefs, it's absolutely not the job of the state to try and save them from themselves. That way lies authoritarianism.
You can't stop people making bad decisions, that's illiberal.
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Date: 2011-01-18 01:10 am (UTC)It's not, but if someone following that religion wants to engage in quack therapies because of their beliefs, it's absolutely not the job of the state to try and save them from themselves. That way lies authoritarianism.
You can't stop people making bad decisions, that's illiberal.