NARTH is neither national, nor research nor therapy: discuss.

NARTH!

A friend of mine whose job includes keeping tabs on terrible people and their hobbies, kicked me this link and I though I'd share. It's an article about the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality which I had never heard of before but apparently they're huge in the world of right-wing propaganda. NARTH's goal is to provide a counter to the increasing acceptance of gays and lesbians in our culture because if there is one thing Jesus absolutely can not stand it's when people get along and treat each other like brothers.

NARTH's argument is that homosexuality is a mental disorder and, if this was 1950, they wouldn't be alone in that opinion. But despite every reputable physiological organization abandoning that stance decades ago, NARTH is still clinging to it like old people on AOL.

"Anyone who doesn't want to crank out five or six of these
 little disease carrying, money sponges is obviously a lunatic."

-NARTH logic

Put these guys in lab coats and
they'd still be assholes.

So what's the big deal if a bunch of medieval dickweeds want to pretend that gayness is a form of crazy? Well, I'll tell you the big deal. This article is from The Intelligence Report, the publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center and it's their job to track hate groups in America. NARTH, as a leading fountain of anti-gay horseshit falls into that category. They are to the LGBT community what the Klan is to everybody who isn't white and crazy except they do it under the pretense of science and therapy and this is where my biscuits get oh so thoroughly burnt.

NARTH presents itself as a non-partisan group that supports the notion that homosexuality is not a choice (which is true) but is 'curable' (which is not). Rhetorically, calling something curable implies that it's a disease so right off the top these guys have an agenda.

Although there is hope for members of NARTH as
scientists are making great strides in the fight against stupid.

"Vote for me! I hate
everyone you hate."

Science is science and science says that gayness is just a human trait like eye color or being Canadian. What pisses me off about NARTH is that they package their homophobic vitriol as science which is then picked up by groups like Focus on the Family who then turn around and endorse people like Rick Santorum. It's not so much that I care about who FOF is endorsing, but it's really messed up that actual hate groups can endorse Republican candidates and no one so much as bats an eye.

 With endorsements from Focus on the Family and Glenn Beck already in hand,
all Rick Santorum needs now is a nod from Westboro Baptists Church and he can build a hotel.
(incidentally, the pool at the Santorum Inn and Motor lodge is 'Whites Only')