If there were a pill to make me straight, I would not take it

Yes that could work, but I don't think too many
in the Gov would go along with something so
stupid. Since our armed forces have gays,
I doubt they would be on board with such insane.
Then things would go down hill from there. Fast.
Not to mention if you don't have the will of your
armies, then playing tyrant is not going to work
out so will. It would be bloody mess between protecting
civilians and idiots that are just exactly that.
There is also the right to a refuse an order you disagree
with.
Furthermore doing things on that scale are costly,
and unpopular.
Also it would take a bit of convincing a military
composed of its own people to subjugate it for
no real reason.
So it would more than likely never happen.

Alternatively, if one should like to try and
change preference there should be a better
(and more humane) way of helping them
if they so choose.

 

1. As we were discussing earlier conversion therapy is mostly not illegal in the US. In NSW and Queensland here only two.
2. It should be noted that Pence never specifically endorsed electroshock therapy he had a campaign site in 2000 for his election as House Member (which he won) that said federalfunding should go away from pro-LGBT groups to those "that provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behaviour" which has been widely interpreted as a guarded endorsement for federally funding conversion therapy which MAY include electroshock therapy as a method. Since becoming VP a spokeperson for Pence told Buzzfeed it was about AIDS relief programs. I'm skeptical of that given his comments and votes on sex education and needle-exchanges, but who knows? He's obviously not entirely opposed to the ideology behind conversion therapy though given that he called both civil unions and gay marriage a threat to society as a House member and as a Governor complained about the marriage ruiling.

 

You might enjoy Christian Nation, by Frederic C. Rich. Its starting premise is that Pres. McCain dies on a trip to Russia, leaving us with Pres. Palin in charge.

 

I think a big component of this is the ever-present idea that now (whenever now may be) is somehow fundamentally different to back then. As though we today in 2017 are operating on a snazzy new O.S. that was just released that promises a totally stable platform and spells an end to all the glitches and crashes and blue-screens-of-death that plagued the past. We always feel this. We've always felt this. Every now has always had this assurance.

Truth is we've been working on the same O.S. for at least the last 60,000 years (probably longer) and we haven't seen a major hardware upgrade in over a 150,000 years.