What would happen?

just like the Xmen some would choose to be cured and others would be against it because of their ideals bla bla bla. I'm totally Rogue, I would choose to be cured.

oh wait. SAFE AREA.
but i bet you could guess what it was going to say.

can a cure be found for something that isnt an illness to begin with?

A "cure" would denote some sort of disease. Just sayin'...

Let's work on a cure for severe mental retardation first.

it's context, it's not a disease to be a mutant but Apocalypse found a way to neuter it and well it became and illness again.

I didn't mean to imply homosexuality is a disease, what I meant was if there was a way to make someone not a homosexual than what would happen? Would America classify it a mental illness again? What would happen to gay rights? Would it be okay to discriminate against gays if they choose to stay gay? Would sodomy become illegal?
Also keep in mind this is hypothetical, so don't get into anything about how it wouldn't be possible.

Someone please put it out of its misery.....

i think a cure for everyone in this thread up to me would be more in order. really.

If you didn't mean to imply it was a disease, you subconciously did. If you went to any other websites other than KR you would know that, yes there are institutions that aim to 'correct' the homosexual individual. Lots of teenagers get sent to them by their parents. Although it isn't a form of 'cure' or whatever. China considered homosexuality a disease until recently, many countries do, as well as individuals. If there was like a tablet cure or whatever, the gay rights would still be around, they would be campaigning most likely for people to not be ashamed of the way they were born. Gays get discriminated against now, so I hardly see that changing. And sodomy is illegal in some states.

Would is stop making you ACT gay?I think that's the thing that bothers people the most??

I would hope that nothing would happen, because the gay folks who have been brave enough to come out and be proud about who they are would just go "pffft I didn't do all that for nothin'" and keep on being gay.

I'd rather they found a cure for, like, homophobic southern baptist ladies or pedophiles

TRUE THAT.Hate those cuntz.

cures are for diseases. diseases self replicate.

*looks at the heteros*

Apart from the old cliche that it can't be cured because it's not a disease, your sexuality is so big a part of your personality; could you really prepare yourself for basically becoming someone else over night?

It's kinda hard to imagine your sexuality changing though. I don't know what I'd be like as a straight guy. Probably pretty awful, and I'd probably get laid even less than I do now, purely because women seem to require even more effort and ego appeasement than gay dudes. I doubt I'd ever want to change enough to do it, knowing that I couldn't change back.

OK, but you'll be aware of the "gay bomb". It's not just about psychological conditioning; it is certainly within the realms of possibility that someone could be chemically changed to be attracted to a different sex. Shit, an organism can be chemically changed to be a different sex! The potential problem is more the psychological impact of it. The gay bomb study seemed to imply that suddenly turning gay would have a demoralising effect, and while I know America is a lot more homophobic than here, I doubt they would've based that on something as simple as "gay = bad". I'm pretty sure that if I suddenly started fancying girls rather than dudes, it would pretty much suck. It might be different if I knew it was going to happen, but probably not by much.

if it were a process that went both ways, you could swap about at will, today i'll have a gay day etc. well i'd pay for that

See, for much the same reason, I'd rather just be able to switch sex. There's a whole lot of straight dudes I want ploughing my beanfield, if you know what I am trying to say.

the reason why some people think gay = disease: