Believing in dull, barren, soul-dead Scientific Materialism is everyone's right, but

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59. So Sid, back in the 70's, did you agree with the 'science' that gay people had a disease?

That's what they believed. They had no evidence, they did not look for any for about 150 years of prisons, madhouses, shock treatments and lobotomies for the 'community' to take a look at it's own behavior. That entire time they were unable to see the natural reality in front of them because they had a set of assumptions running and running hard. Hard to differentiate such actions from those of religious folks, who assume things not in evidence, for generations no matter what the cost to others. Very stupid, very brittle and dogmatic. Lobotomies, to cure the disease. Until 1973.
Not quite witch burnings, but the next best thing, and it was 'medicine' that did it, not religion, until I was nearing voting age. They were gunna cure us with science fact!
Like a bunch of Baptists, only less humble and not as empathetic. 'They are diseased!'. I grew up reading this crap. I'll never forget it, nor will I forget what the 'science and medical community' has so recently been capable of.
Lobotomies, to cure the gay. Until 1973. Science!!!!!!!!