Below is a question asked of a famous person who was answering questions for a magazine-
My problem is different from the ones most people have. I am a boy, but I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don’t want my parents to know about me. What can I do? Is there any place where I can go for help?
Your problem is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require careful attention. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired. Your reasons for adopting this habit have now been consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this problem by getting back to some of the experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. In order to do this I would suggest that you see a good psychiatrist who can assist you in bringing to the forefront of conscience all of those experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it.
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This was in a 1958 edition of Ebony magazine. It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He pretty much said that homosexuality was a mental illness and that the boy needed treatment.
Will his statues be torn down and every street with his name on it be renamed!!!!!! Fat chance.
Just look at how Hornet.com runs cover –
Despite treating the advice-seeker’s homosexuality as a mental illness — obviously this advice from Martin Luther King Jr. was very much a product of its time — he still offers compassion during a time when many saw homosexuality as a crime and a grave sin.
One source notes that because Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, he didn’t witness the birth of the modern day LGBTQ rights movement following the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
As a result, we don’t know much else about King’s thoughts on LGBTQ liberation.
Lest we judge his advice too harshly, we should remember that the American Psychiatric Association also viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder until it removed it from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973.
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Couldn’t the exact same reasoning be applied to every other person before their statues were ripped down?
Hat tip to –>
Martin Luther King said homosexuality was a mental illness that should be treated by a doctor. I am offended. The only possible response to his offensive opinion is to rename every street & tear down every statue of his. That’s how this works, right? https://t.co/hwQoxSMgQx
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 22, 2019
I must have misread that. I was trying to figure out who the teen was.
Rock Hudson?
*snicker*
I cheated. I don’t like the Mystery/Suspense genre either. My bad.
But at least I am a boy who feels about girls the way I’m supposed to.
People tend to forget that Dr. King was a pastor and Theologian who would have followed the Biblical teachings – he was responding not unlike most pastors and Theologians of the time would have (and still should — you speak to the sin and not to the sinner as unredeemable).
So this response is not so remarkable as it is a reminder of how far our pastors, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, among others have fallen in dealing with abnormal behavior that violates God’s creation.
Shit was never meant to be an aphrodisiac!
Dr Ruth
The Pope
It was actually good advice then, and would be good advice today, except for state laws that forbid it. Besides, today a psychiatrist would be defrocked if he tried to cure homosexuality.
If MLK had consulted with his sidekick the REVEREND Jessie Jackson, he would have told the kid to go out and get laid (by a woman).
Off topic (but not really) although I do not like ads on IOTW, the “quality’ of the ads on the upper right side of the page have shown a marked improvement lately.
We must remove the MLK memorial(s) from public view everywhere!!!
Immediately!!! Street names too!!!!
Change MLK Day to National Indigenous Person Day…
We can not celebrate a person who thought in such a way!!!
Do I sound like the left yet?!?!? ROTFLOL
Isn’t this where we’re at now with the insanity?!?!?
Let’s use the Lefts logic on back on them…LMAO
The only difference between Dr. M.L.King Jr. and I is he had a lot more melanin in his skin than I have. Read his speeches/sermons and he would be branded as a right wing Nazi in 2019.
@Tony R
I hear ya on those ads, buddy!
Didn’t know it was King. I was gonna say “Liberace?”
Given the year, either Joe DiMaggio or Marilyn Monroe
MLK was a notorious skirt chaser in the mold of JFK.
guess his advise to BarryO didn’t work
we banned Kate Smith for her cultural circumstances, why not MLK?
That is a kind and compassionate and tolerant response. From a good pastor to a struggling soul. Problem?
Dude, don’t be a queer. That’s pretty solid even for a fucking degenerate G-dless libertarian. You libertarians are filth.
A libertarian is is worse than a fucktard democrat. You scumbags reek of hypocrisy. You reek of degenaeracy. You reek of rot. And you fucking pretend your intellectual status. Fuck you.
Interesting response from MLK to the boy. Interesting though that he did not offer prayer or any spiritual solution but only one based on psychoanalysis, par for the course for MLK since he was not a fundamentalist per se, but a “progressive” Christian. Also, interesting in that there are claims of MLK’s prolific bisexual activities. Nevertheless, the point is well taken that today, the views of a civil rights icon fly in the face of today’s social justice crowd.