Comments on "If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off!"

I'll bet the Kansas Board of Medical Examiners has this info available online; I know Colorado does.

The phrase "board certified" turns me on.

A quick search of: http://www.docboard.org/ks/df/kssearch.htm yields no licensees with the last name of Feathertree.

Yeah, this is total B.S. Come on now.

What 3 said. If you want to check any other state, go here: http://www.noah-health.org/en/usmd/state.html

I think it's a hoax too... still, I wouldn't put it past 'em.

Yeah--"EUNicure"--that in itself sounds like a put-on, considering what they purport to do...

Plus is elective castration actually legal? Outside of sex reassignment surgery, I mean? Seems to me that lawsuits aplenty would be flying.

No way this if for real. Check out the testimonials- they're definitely fake.

(question: should it be 'testis'-monials? Har har.)

Feathertree sounds like a made up name. It's not quite as overt as Dr. Timothy Ballslicer, but still.

If it is a parody, I do think it sends an extremely funny yet poignant message to religious folks about how far society should go to ‘prevent’ homosexuality. Proposing surgical castration, which causes a “complete lack of sexual desire of any kind”, sends a powerful message to nearly every man out there, gay or straight.

I guarantee it's a hoax. No on-the-level Christian site would pay tribute to Phelps, as these guys do right on the front page. Everybody realizes the guy is a lunatic, and every Christian organization on the planet has disassociated themselves (in fact, an unrelated church in Canada that had been called "Westboro Baptist Church" for decades changed their name just so people would stop confusing them with Phelps's organization).

On third thought...

If one asks for volunteers for removing one's genes from the pool one should accept all comers.

I'd think hoax too, but the level of punning in the name is fantastic.

Eunicure = Eunuch you are
= Unique cure
= bed cure (Eun in eunuch is from the Greek word for bed)

I could go on, but this is English professor stuff. . .

I could easily see this being for real if it were done outside the US. I can't see a board certified urologist getting any kind of malpractice insurer to sign off on elective castration.

But I kind of wish it was true, cause then it would indicate that self-hating fundies are into the kinkiest shit imaginable.

If homo-sex is beyond the pale, what the fuck can you say about scheduling a castration while your mom watches? Damn!

Hoax. There's an ad for Truth Wins Out on the front page.

Feathertree doesn't even turn up in google, although I just learned about the existance of christmas trees made of goose feathers.

I also enjoyed the testimonial of "Jay B."

This site is brilliant. Didja notice "I cured my herpes: simple home remedy cures herpes within 72 hours." on the front page?

No link unfortunately.

Have they considered placing an ad at Landover Baptist?

Where the fuck do find this shit?

Holy shit the herpes cure is real!

yes you can get elective castration done in the US just not this hoax site.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-06/cover.shtml

i guess philly is the castration capitol of the country not kansas

1) The street address listed is for the Westboro Baptist Church itself, and the site talks about the funding it gets from Christian sources it doesn't name - so chances are this is a Phelps thing, trying to con gays into getting their balls cut off. Wonder if he'll keep them in a jar on his desk.

2) Doctors perform gender reassignment surgery involving castration all the time without losing their license. Search for "Body Dismorphic Disorder." There are people who have sought, and recieved, the surgical removal of a limb or other body part that they do not, for whatever, reason, recognize as "theirs."

3) It is possible that if there is a Dr. Feathertree, he is not praticing medicine in Kansas, only acting as a director so wouldn't be listed as a praticing doctor in Kansas, and he might have - heck, probably MUST have - gotten his medical degree on some small island somewhere.

I'm pretty sure the notion that castration removes all sexual desire, and all sexual ability, is false.

1) The street address listed is for the Westboro Baptist Church itself, and the site talks about the funding it gets from Christian sources it doesn't name - so chances are this is a Phelps thing, trying to con gays into getting their balls cut off. Wonder if he'll keep them in a jar on his desk.

2) Doctors perform gender reassignment surgery involving castration all the time without losing their license. Search for "Body Dismorphic Disorder." There are people who have sought, and recieved, the surgical removal of a limb or other body part that they do not, for whatever, reason, recognize as "theirs."

3) It is possible that if there is a Dr. Feathertree, he is not praticing medicine in Kansas, only acting as a director so wouldn't be listed as a praticing doctor in Kansas, and he might have - heck, probably MUST have - gotten his medical degree on some small island somewhere.

Hey, anyone want to meet up at "The Sparkle" to do some blow and blow some dudes, as they say?

I'm glad I read this and didn't hear it, because if I'd just heard it I'd have thought it was a pedicure for someone with only one toe.

@12 -- I noticed also that if you say "Andrew Johnson" relatively quickly it sounds sort of like "androgynous". Wonder if they did that on purpose too?

Doctors in the US require the patient to undergo extensive psychiatric examinations before castrations - simply for fear of being sued. Remember the cult that all commited suicide a couple of years ago - they were going to join a 'mothership' near Jupiter? [They did web-pages, too - I can not remember their name though] They couldn't get their castrations done in the US, so they went to Mexico.

It could be a hoax in either direction - that is the church looking for names of homosexual men to torment or some one's attack on the church - but I doubt if it is real. the threat of liability is just too high.

Okay, well... I got an email back from their spokesmodel, and I'm going to give him a call.

Here's a fun thought experiment for you.

Would right wing support stem cell research if it promised a cure for homosexuality?

@29 - I'm inclined to think their heads would explode all at once. Choosing between "God hates fags" and "God loves embryos" would be too much for their feeble minds to process.

First, sorry for the double post. Second, since it keeps coming up, those are Google Adsense ads on the site - they aren't connected to the site or part of the site or whatever you want to call it. Google just posts the ads in those slots that it wants to.

Yeah, castration doesn't end sexual desires. I'm a non-op trans, and I have had an orchidectomy. Even with a ton of estrogen and no testicles, I can still get aroused and "perform" with my lover.

That said, the nature of my sex drive has changed - I don't respond to the same things or the same way as I did before.

That's what I thought. Which is one reason why castrating rapists doesn't make them safe.

The first and most obvious tipoff that this is a fraud/parody: "100% Effective!"

There are very few things that can make that claim verifiably in medicine, and surgical castration is certainly not one of those that can.

Most men seeking castration (and they are out there) usually end up doing it themselves - or have friends help. Using the methods and tools that are used to geld livestock.

See Eunuch.org

This might actually be a fetish you wouldn't approve, Dan...

The scariest thing is that we think (know?) this kind of stuff might be remotely possible. As in, there could be those out there who actually think this way.

Well, if it really is Fred Phelps who's behind this, the solution is much simpler...just mail out a picture of his evil, sour puss...or better yet one of his rancid groin pickle. I can assure you I've lost any sense of libido I had just thinking of that.

Speaking of Fred Phelps, does anyone else think that Dan Savage should start a fund to sic these guys on them?

http://www.entartistes.ca/english.html

On him, that is. But perhaps on the whole Phelps cabal, too.

This is officially hilarious.