WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Conversion therapy

"I don’t want to be outrageous,” says Dr Mike Davidson softly – but it is hard to believe him. The 57-year-old Christian counsellor and campaigner has upset a lot of people lately, with his claims that homosexuals can become straight if they get enough help, therapy, and prayer. The British doctor has been called deluded and his work condemned as inflammatory, homophobic, and harmful. It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness that someone can recover from. If people want to live in a monogamous homosexual relationship, they need to be given the freedom, the space, the respect, and the value to do that. Homosexuality is just a trait that some people just happen to possess. Some people are into the opposite sex, some people are into the same sex, and some people are into both sexes. And that's the way it should stay.