Comments on: A Case For Banning http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/12/1270 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Karen http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/12/1270/comment-page-1#comment-5661 Karen Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:22:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/12/1270#comment-5661 Radical suggestion that I'm not sure is even possible: Make it part of accepted, licensed counselling practice. Continue to make it clear that this is counselling, not treatment for mental illness, since homosexuality isn't an illness. Make it illegal for anyone unlicensed to do it, like surgery. Make the malpractice rules VEEEEERY stringent, about who can be considered "candidates", the amount of informed consent necessary, acceptable techniques (i.e. talk-therapy only), reporting of results, follow-up, etc etc. Then, the practice will simply die on its own. Radical suggestion that I’m not sure is even possible:

Make it part of accepted, licensed counselling practice.

Continue to make it clear that this is counselling, not treatment for mental illness, since homosexuality isn’t an illness.

Make it illegal for anyone unlicensed to do it, like surgery.

Make the malpractice rules VEEEEERY stringent, about who can be considered “candidates”, the amount of informed consent necessary, acceptable techniques (i.e. talk-therapy only), reporting of results, follow-up, etc etc.

Then, the practice will simply die on its own.

]]> By: Suricou Raven http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/12/1270/comment-page-1#comment-5655 Suricou Raven Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:07:28 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/12/1270#comment-5655 I have a different suggestion: Just make sure that anyone offering it is liable for any damage it may cause, and that its not possible for a anyone to sign away this protection. Sooner or later one of their ex-patients will sue. They have more failures than successes, and plenty of those failures will be very bitter. I have a different suggestion: Just make sure that anyone offering it is liable for any damage it may cause, and that its not possible for a anyone to sign away this protection. Sooner or later one of their ex-patients will sue. They have more failures than successes, and plenty of those failures will be very bitter.

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