Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
We’re now facing a Supreme Court decision on a Colorado law that we should see the answer to sometime in June. The case is called Chiles vs Salazar. Kaley Chiles is a licensed Christian counselor and argues that the 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors infringes on her freedom of speech. The Court isn’t quite certain about conversion therapy if it’s speech or conduct.
Now let’s get into the way-back machine. I challenged everyone of our intelligentsia that reads our publication, can you recall the name of the first girl you kissed or the first boy who kissed you? I was playing baseball summer of 1956 on a team of older guys. And when the game was over there was a young woman, her first name to protect her, if she’s still alive, was Judy. And Judy let all the boys kiss her. I can remember the players on the entire team. I had no desire to kiss Terry Martin the third baseman or Chuckie Neff who played short stop. I only wanted to kiss Judy, and my entire life changed on that spot.
Now these Christian counselors believe that they can take a young gay boy or girl and make them straight. So, if it works one way it’s got to work the other. Do you think if a bunch of people threatened you with exorcism, making you stand in front of a congregation and confess your sins, wear a dress, boys only, and in some severe cases electroshock therapy was used, they would have changed you? You could have done all of those things, including putting a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t be gay.
Why does anyone in their right mind think that you can take a burgeoning young gay boy or girl and embarrass them into being straight. This pseudo-science has been outlawed in much of the known world. So, this really truly is insanity. Twenty-three states in our Union have outlawed this form of child torture. The civilized world also has turned this back. I would urge you to go to Doctor Google and read faith-based and religious practices, psychological techniques, physical and medical “physical intervention techniques” that these people want to perpetrate on age of awareness young Colorado boys and girls.
I never had a choice. I’ve talked to at least a dozen gay friends who also never had a choice.
Ask yourself this. Who would choose to be belittled, beaten up, made fun of, and in high school …choose it?
I know my uncle didn’t have a choice and his life was miserable. My life has also been miserable because I didn’t have that choice. God knows there were a couple of times in my life where I would have chosen gay. It would have made a lot of things easier and doubled my chances for a date on Friday night. But I was stuck with heterosexuality. And it’s very expensive, through divorce. I’m 0 for 2.
But for everything that you hold dear, logical thought, why would anyone allow this to be done to their children? And I’m beginning a study of the life of Jesus. Jesus never said anything about being gay. So, my advice to the Chistian therapist is go hit somebody else over their head with your Bible and leave these kids alone.
— Peter Boyles
