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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:02 PM Jun 2014

Texas State Rep. Bryan Hughes On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360: Being Gay Is A 'Mistake' You Can Fix



Texas state Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) went on Anderson Cooper's show, AC360, in order to defend Texas Republicans' support for a gay "cure." Things didn't go so smoothly for him.

Hughes tried to defend Republicans' support for gay conversion arguing there exists plenty of medical support for such procedure. (There doesn't.) Cooper called Hughes out on this lie and began to list all the medical organizations that condemn any such attempt as abusive and harmful.

"I could give you a list," Cooper told Hughes. "The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselors' Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Social Workers. They represent half a million mental health professionals, they all say [being gay] is not a mental disorder. It's not something that needs to be cured."

Cooper then went on to show Hughes a clip of the former president of the largest "ex-gay" group that claimed to be able to change people's sexuality. The group dismantled after recognizing being gay is not a choice. But Hughes was not convinced.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15329/state-rep-bryan-hughes-on-cnn-being-gay-is-a-mistake-but-god-still-loves-you .

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
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Texas State Rep. Bryan Hughes On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360: Being Gay Is A 'Mistake' You Can Fix (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #1
Huh? lostincalifornia Jun 2014 #2
I alerted as spam. TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #3
Thanks, wastes a lot of space and has no thread correlation. I thought I might have missed lostincalifornia Jun 2014 #5
The disgusting smile on that morons face....jesus, this guy actually has political power somewhere randys1 Jun 2014 #4
Being a Republican is something you can fix. Being stupid ... DreamGypsy Jun 2014 #6
Why are so many elected politicians in Texas just plain stupid? Cooperstown Jun 2014 #7
1 thing is certain. you can't fix stupid. pansypoo53219 Jun 2014 #8

Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)

lostincalifornia

(3,639 posts)
5. Thanks, wastes a lot of space and has no thread correlation. I thought I might have missed
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:21 PM
Jun 2014

something so I didn't alert, but looks like I didn't thanks

randys1

(16,286 posts)
4. The disgusting smile on that morons face....jesus, this guy actually has political power somewhere
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:16 PM
Jun 2014

insane...like a 4 yr old

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
6. Being a Republican is something you can fix. Being stupid ...
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 04:49 PM
Jun 2014

...may or may not be something you can fix.

Being a stupid, Republican state representative is something that other people can, and should, fix for you.

gotv

 

Cooperstown

(49 posts)
7. Why are so many elected politicians in Texas just plain stupid?
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:01 PM
Jun 2014

I'd really like to know who goes to the polls and votes.

Doesn't seem like there's been a majority of intelligent voters for about 20-30 years. (When was Bush elected Governor?)

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