Daily Inspiration Quote by Randall Terry

The line is engineered less as diagnosis than as moral leverage: a neat, clinical-sounding sentence that smuggles in a verdict. By framing homosexuality as something that requires "healing", Randall Terry isn’t arguing about desire or identity; he’s trying to relocate the topic into the territory of pathology, where sympathy can be weaponized and coercion can masquerade as care. The phrase "process of healing" borrows the aura of medicine and self-help culture, but it functions like a trap door: if you’re gay and you don’t pursue change, you’re not merely disagreeing, you’re "rejecting" recovery.

"Too painful and time-consuming" is doing double duty. It paints gay people as weak-willed quitters while quietly validating any harsh intervention as necessary toughness. Pain becomes proof: if "healing" hurts, then suffering is rebranded as progress. That’s the same rhetorical logic that has historically protected conversion therapy and similar practices from scrutiny, because the cruelty can always be reframed as treatment.

The subtext also flatters the in-group. It offers straight, religious audiences a comforting narrative: you’re not prejudiced, you’re offering help; resistance isn’t a principled stance, it’s avoidance. In a culture-war context where LGBTQ rights increasingly demand public recognition, this line tries to reverse the moral spotlight. The problem isn’t discrimination, it suggests; the problem is that gay people refuse to be fixed.