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Have "pray-the-gay-away" therapies or similar interventions been tried or instituted in any societies before the modern USA?

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Are there or are there not any Roman Catholic saints who are based on pre-Christian dieties rather than on actual humans?

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Is there any merit to the idea that "Adam's rib" in Genesis refers to the baculum, and the creation of Eve is also a just-so story about why human males don't have one?

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Was there ever a state-level, pre-Columbian society in California? If not, why not?

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Have "pray-the-gay-away" therapies or similar interventions been tried or instituted in any societies before the modern USA?	25
Are there or are there not any Roman Catholic saints who are based on pre-Christian dieties rather than on actual humans?	12
Is there any merit to the idea that "Adam's rib" in Genesis refers to the baculum, and the creation of Eve is also a just-so story about why human males don't have one?	2
Was there ever a state-level, pre-Columbian society in California? If not, why not?	2