Tuesday night, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show took a sledgehammer to the Texas GOP over their recent decision to endorse "reparative therapy" for homosexuals. 

According to Stewart, people who have even the slightest skepticism about the merits of homosexuality or resist the popular "born this way" axiom are either bigots or just plain stupid. 

While there are certainly serious criticisms to be leveled at reparative therapy, including its methods of forced implementation by non-licensed mental health practitioners and use of barbaric practices like, as Stewart pointed out, making someone defecate into a bottle and sniff it every time they feel same-sex attraction or frying someone's genitals up with electric shocks, Stewart gives not even the slightest concession to the idea that if a man or woman wanted to voluntarily seek reparative therapy by a licensed mental health practitioner on their own accord, then they should have the right to make that choice for themselves. 

Instead of debating the "free-choice" argument head-on, Stewart just tossed the argument aside completely, calling the Texas GOP hypocritical because they don't support a woman's choice to get an abortion, and therein lies Stewart's moral blind spot. On planet Stewart, moral deficiency is somehow greater in a person with ambivalence toward homosexuality than in a person advocating the wholesale slaughter of unborn children -- 57 million to be exact.   

In the segment, Stewart accused the Texas GOP of wanting to get into "Doc Brown's DeLorean" and time-travel back to the 1950's. Perhaps Stewart should speak for himself on that one, because child-sacrifice and, for that matter, institutionalized homosexuality go back over a thousand years. 

Stewart's arguments against reparative therapy ranged from the clichéd to the downright dishonest. Consider Stewart's smug refutation of a claim made by one reparative therapist who said the therapy focuses on bringing out the heterosexuality in a person as opposed to getting rid of the homosexuality. While the therapist's claim certainly needs proper testing, Stewart dismissed it entirely, saying heterosexuality doesn't exist in the clients at all. While that might be the case among homosexuals, perhaps even a fair majority, to say it doesn't exist at all flies in the face of common sense. Everyone is fully capable of engaging in homosexual or heterosexual acts, regardless of their initial desire to do so. Any prison population, male or female, squarely shows such fluidity between sexual orientation does exist if given the right environment. 

Stewart showed no interest in debating any of these conundrums and preferred to conclude by calling his opponents "a**holes."