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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/conservative-candidate-touts-therapies-turn-gay-youth-straight-191942174.html

I don't even...

OTTAWA A Conservative candidate in suburban Toronto is defending therapies that attempt to turn gays straight, having penned an editorial that referred to homosexuality as "unnatural behaviour" and heterosexuals as "normal."

Jagdish Grewal, running in Mississauga-Malton, wrote an editorial in the Punjabi Post earlier this year entitled, "Is it wrong for a homosexual to become a normal person?"

He describes an NDP private member's bill passed in the Ontario legislature in June that removed public funding for services designed to "change or direct the sexual orientation or gender identity of a patient."

Grewal writes in the piece that some psychologists blame a "shock" during childhood for causing a person to become gay, but that the change "can be corrected."

"The political competition of today raises the question of whether any person's wish to become a normal person is wrong?" Grewal wrote in Punjabi.

"If it is a parent's right to set guidelines for their children in terms of their education, career and health, then why is it illegal for them to strengthen their natural heterosexuality?"

Grewal said in an interview Tuesday that he was attempting to educate readers about an issue in the news and lay out the positions taken by the provincial parties and psychologists. He said he did not recall the names of the psychologists he mentioned.

In the editorial, he points to the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, an American group that offers therapies to people who have "unwanted homosexual attractions."

"Yes, there's children who have tendencies, who are attracted," Grewal said in the interview. "If that child wants to come back or tell the parents that he wants to get out of this life, then parents should have the right to bring them back to their straight life."

Grewal's editorial does not address professional criticism of so-called reparative or conversion therapies. The Canadian Pediatric Society's position on adolescent sexual orientation states that such treatments "should not be provided because they do not work and have the potential to heighten guilt and anxiety."

High-profile Ontario Progressive Conservatives supported the private member's bill when it came to a vote.

Grewal is running against Liberal Navdeep Bains, a former MP who is also an organizer for the party in the Toronto area.

A campaign pamphlet recently spotted in the riding, with the fine print, "Authorized by the official agent for Jagdish Grewal," features a picture of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at the Toronto Pride parade. The slogan reads, "Are these the priorities of your family?"

In another picture, a piece of paper is superimposed onto Bains' hand. The paper reads "Liberal priorities: Sex Education, Gay Marriage, Legalize Marijuana and Prostitution."

Grewal says the flyer is not from his campaign.

There has been opposition to the Ontario government's new sexual education curriculum from within some ethnic communities. The new content addresses sexual orientation and gender identity and homophobia. Children in Grade 1 will be taught the correct names of body parts.

Earlier this year, Wynne said she believed the federal Conservatives were using sex ed as a political wedge issue in the province in advance of the election.

Grewal says he's been getting an earful from people in the Muslim, Sikh and Hindu communities upset by the curriculum.

"There are families who are keeping their kids at home, they're not sending them to school they're so frustrated with this," said Grewal. "They don't talk about any other issues. This is their biggest issue at the time at the door."

Bains disagrees, saying people understand that a federal MP has no power to shape a provincial education plan.

"Unemployment is high, higher than the national average, youth unemployment is high and people are worried about the economy, worried about jobs," Bains said of the riding. "Those are the issues that matter."

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I have no problem with people who feel same-sex attraction wanting to get away from that. The biggest problem with that article is the person assumes that people who aren't straight aren't really... normal people.

This sentence wins for most grammatically farked up of the day. I don't even know.

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I have no problem with people who feel same-sex attraction and want to get out from that. The biggest problem with that article is the person assumes that people who aren't straight aren't really... normal people.

I still don't even know what this means.

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People like this. I have no problem helping people like this.

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Yeah...but that's a bit like saying 'What do I do if I don't want to be Asian/Black/White/Persian'? etc

Or for instance Jazz, I'm short. Can you help me not be short anymore? I don't want to be short.

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Yeah...but that's a bit like saying 'What do I do if I don't want to be Asian/Black/White/Persian'? etc

Or for instance Jazz, I'm short. Can you help me not be short anymore? I don't want to be short.

That's not really the same. There are plenty of people that change sexual orientation over their lifetimes. Gay people that go straight and straight that go go gay. You can't change races over the course of a lifetime but you can change sexual preference. Also with people that go through a gender change where do you classify them? They change sexual preference usually too.
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Yeah...but that's a bit like saying 'What do I do if I don't want to be Asian/Black/White/Persian'? etc

Or for instance Jazz, I'm short. Can you help me not be short anymore? I don't want to be short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal

In all seriousness though, nature vs. nurture, man.

Your height is nature with a perhaps a bit of nurture. Sexual preference is nurture with a bit of nature.

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I have no problem with people who feel same-sex attraction and want to get out from that. The biggest problem with that article is the person assumes that people who aren't straight aren't really... normal people.

Uh?

Are there going to be any major televised debates in the next couple of weeks?

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Candidate removed:

OTTAWA -- The Conservative party says a candidate who defended therapies that attempt to turn gays straight is no longer their official representative in a suburban Toronto riding, although it is too late to remove him from the ballot.

Jagdish Grewal, who is running in Mississauga-Malton, wrote an editorial entitled "Is it wrong for a homosexual to become a normal person?" that referred to homosexuality as "unnatural behaviour" and heterosexuals as "normal."

A party spokeswoman said Tuesday night that Grewal's comments "are not reflective of the views of the Conservative Party of Canada."

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