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Conversion  August 23rd, 2005 · 1 Comment  Arthur Silber works
up more anger than I can manage over the Volokh Conspiracy
debate on homosexual “conversion,” but his basic points strike
me as right on. The core problem here is that Eugene is
ultimately making a pretty trivial point, but framing it in the
context of rebutting the idea that it’s a “myth” that gay people
try to “convert” or “recruit” more gay people.  Eugene points
out that if someone has a pre-existing same-sex attraction, gay
friends or acquaintances may try to get them to act on those
impulses if they haven’t before. OK, obviously that happens.
Except Eugene unhelpfully refers to this as “conversion to
homosexual behavior” and considers it a counterexample to the
idea that “homosexual conversion” is a myth. Well, first, the
problem (as Arthur observes) is that that’s not the myth. The
relevant “myth” people are talking about is the idea that gays
are going to try to mysteriously i