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"we've got god, money, politics, homosexuality, has anyone ever heard of restless leg syndrome? its where you move your leg about in your sleep, its awful. you may have it, it may not keep you awake, it doesn't harm you in any way, it may not bother you in the slightest, but nonetheless its awful, the pharmaceutical companies declare it so, so they've invented a drug and you simply must take it. if you haven't heard of restless leg by the way you may have attention deficit disorder, awful. we've got a lot of drugs for that one, you must take them. you're depressed, you're not sleeping enough. you think your shy but you've actually got a social anxiety disorder. weak stream, irritable bowl syndrome, you people have all kinds of ailments you don’t know about, luckily we've got drugs for every one of them, you must take them. my colleague has a case involving a forgetting pill. you can take that one to forget you ever had restless leg or irritable bowl syndrome. same sex attraction disorder. and what troubles me, is why the folks in big pharmaceutical haven’t invented a pill for this disease, clearly they are in the business of selling sickness if there was a profit to be made they would make it. and with a estimate of gay population of 10 million in the US alone, there is certainly a big enough market. could it be that they cant cure it? well, not to worry, if big pharmaceutical cant do it, maybe big religion can, and they are. they are the ones who coined the term same sex attraction disorder, its a very good name, very important a good name. its a crucial first step in disqualifying homosexuals as a part of the population and categorizing them as a disease. making homosexuals seem less like people and more like the flu. and with terrible awful symptoms, but curable. and therefore less concerning when it comes to things like individuals rights, freedom, privacy, and marriage. Big religion is very concerned about marriage. Big religion is the one filling the pockets of congress actually got them to propose a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Think about that, a governmentally imposed systematic prejudice against a class based on their sexual orientation, never mind that one of the most trusted evangelical advisors to the president was himself having a homosexual affair on the side, and never mind that one of our congressman was writing naughty e-mails to his teenage male pages. I thought it was just a disease, and I was told it was curable, that’s what they told me down at the church. Well, you can legislate against it. You can give it a clever name and treat people for it. You can shut your eyes, have sex with your wife and pretend it all feels right. You can join the church and swear to be solvent for the rest of your life. You can drive around on a Saturday night with a baseball bat and try to beat it out of some poor soul you haven’t met. You can even come to this courtroom and testify as to your new leaf, and how well its all working. What a miracle. My only response is, give it time, we’ll see. Meanwhile, this company took $40,000 from my client promising to cure his gayness. Only in America. Only in a country overtly and notoriously celebrates its prejudice against a class of people by proposing constitutional amendments. God bless us all, home of the brave. Shame on you! Couldn’t you of at least offered a money back grantee, and thrown in a blender?"-Alan Shore, Boston Legal. This is a great quote about the issue, and is relativly true. It is among my most favorites.