Love in Action: a losing battle?

I REALLY shouldn't be blogging, but I couldn't let this tidbit linger. So one more post and then I'm off till Tuesday... unless I backslide again. Please, if this seems like I'm repeating info from previous posts, hang tight. There's a surprise twist!

Why is Love in Action a fight worth the cost of engagement? Because its kid's program Refuge amounts to child abuse that could lead to lingering psychological disability. At least that's the official suggestion of the APA.

For those just tuning in LIA is a ministry/therapy using shaming/brainwashing techniques, and a heavy dose of Jesus to make gay people straight-- or at least "straight-acting". Refuge is its youth camp where parents send their little Sammy Sissies, and Flannel Flos-- often against their will. The program's medical expert is (drumroll) a dentist.

John Smid recently asked critics why they opposed, "appropriate therapeutic intervention for minor children according to SOCIAL and personal conscience," like Nazi Germany never fucking happened. And yeah, I know the Nazi talk makes me sound mighty knee-jerky, but I'm not the one performing backyard brain abortions for the sake of social hegemony.

But let me ask you this... If a respected voice on the most watched news channel in America can say something like this about Gitmo, I think it's fair to say that America is cool with a little parent sanctioned torture. Read these comments from Chris Wallace and weep for what your county has become. As long as we're a little better than the Nazis or the Soviets we're better than the Nazis and Soviets. It curdles the brain. It's one of the single most immoral comments I've heard in a long time.

Wallace on Gitmo:

"There's an allegation of mistreatment. But what the FBI memo alleges, and it is an allegation, is, you know, would be considered a day at the beach in the Soviet gulag or Nazi...I mean, what was so horrific in the memo, and I'm not saying, you know, there aren't legitimate questions there, is that someone is chained to a floor and forced to defecate on themselves, and has loud rock music playing. Excuse me? I mean, you know, Auschwitz? Bergen Belsen? The Soviet gulag? I think they would have been very happy to be allowed to defecate on themselves."

This isn't a man talking it's a sickness. This is a diver in too deep and lost. He can no longer judge up from down, left from right and the oxygen is running out.
That's the voice of a terribly confused and frightened segment of America. In light of this, a question:

Love in Action? Those nineteen year old kids getting razor sharp bamboo shoved up and down their peeholes by Charley would have LOVED some Love in Action. You're not going to compare it to nam, are you? That was REAL abuse. That was REAL torture.

I don't want to hear another war-loving, torture-condoning, fag-bashing, lynch-loving Republican accuse my liberal ass of moral relativism because I didn't experience regicidal outrage over Clinton's bimboholic ways or his trailer park taste for marinated cigars.

Only midday and already too tired to spellcheck...