Is it wrong to offer a 'cure' for gayness?

I, like most people, don't have a problem with gay people. All my life homosexuality has been legal. I went to school with gay people and have gay people in my family. For too many people they fixate on the gay bit and not the more important people bit.

I've met some nasty gay people, but being people that is to be expected. You come across some horrible people, gay or straight, in life. Homosexual people are just people. We are all the same.

I've no problem with gay marriage. The only thing that I disagree with is the move to compel churches to conduct marriage ceremonies if it is against their religious convictions. I also find it hypocritical that Mosques seem to be left out of this pressure. This is politics and the more extreme zealots I dislike not the concept. Love and commitment is all that matter if people want to express their love good for them.

Anyway my question is this: is it wrong that some people or groups, ranging from conmen to psychiatrists, to offer 'treatment' to 'cure' gay people of their gayness and turn them into straight people.

For a start I doubt the effectiveness of such treatment. I also dislike the assumption by many that homosexuality is wrong.

However is it wrong to offer people this option if the person wants it? To my mind if you want to go for such drastic treatment you have obvious need. If a person is so desperate should they not get the help they want? This help should be emotional support and cultural support to allow them to not see homosexuality as wrong, weak, or evil. However if they want to be made straight should they, as intelligent people capable of independent thought, be allowed to try?

Personally I doubt that such treatment would work, and it is sad, but should people have the right to try if they want?