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- when Salon publishes an article asserting that anti-obesity is the new homophobia, and that we fat people are really just victims of “moral and aesthetic disapproval”, it isn’t just misguided, it’s dangerous. The article attempts to create equivalence between the treatment of the overweight and the homosexual by the big bad medical establishment:
DutchmanDavid · 4488 days ago · link ·
The author of the Salon articles seems to believe that scientists claimed that homosexuality was/is a disease. I don't think I've ever heard or read a doctor claim that it was!
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thenewgreen · 4488 days ago · link ·
Unfortunately, there have been doctors that have claimed that homosexuality is something that can be cured. Check out this post about "reparative therapy" from a while back.