On December 25, 2005, Charles Socarides entered Hell

[Ian David]

GAY 'CURE' DOCTOR DIES
Associated Press


NEW YORK (AP) - Charles Socarides, the psychiatrist famous for insisting that homosexuality was a treatable illness and who claimed to have "cured" hundreds, has died. He was 83.

Socarides, died Dec. 25 of heart failure at a hospital near his Manhattan home, his family announced. A funeral Mass was held Friday.

He waged an unsuccessful battle to reverse the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, and brushed off frequent condemnations by colleagues who considered his views hurtful.

"Gays ascribe their condition to God, but he should not have to take that rap, any more than he should be blamed for the existence of other manmade maladies -- like war," he wrote in the Catholic weekly magazine America in 1995.

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A native of Brockton, Mass., Socarides decided he wanted to become a psychoanalyst at age 13 after reading a book on the life of Sigmund Freud. He graduated from Harvard College, earned his medical degree at New York Medical College, and got a certificate in psychoanalytic medicine at Columbia University. He taught at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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[wiley]

1. A sure sign that God exists

and has a bizarre sense of humor. Didn't Christianity - oh, wait, they "officially apologized" for all those lynchings and beatings and treating other human beings as soulless work animals, ie. Africans, Chinese, etc. - used to justify the enslavement of other human beings as God's perspective. Some day there is going to be a big apology for the killing, abuse, and harrassment of homosexuals and those perceived to be homosexual. I'm not holding my breath. But I know a lot of other people who are going to Hell as well.

[Ian David]

2. If Gawd existed, that man wouldn't have lived to be 83 years old

Unless, of course, his last years were an agony of painful torment.

[insleeforprez]

3. Do we really have to sink to Phelps' level

by saying he "entered hell"?

Sure, I won't mourn him too much, but a person's death should never be celebrated, maybe except for OBL or something.

[sakabatou]

4. Let's just say that he was not loved by many...

... :yoiks:

[dsc]

5. I heartedly agree

we are better than that.