Can Parents raise children to maximize a heterosexual outcome?

The rights of parents to oversee the development of children is a long-established principle. Who is to dictate that parents may not try to raise their children in a manner that maximizes the possibility of a heterosexual outcome? If that preogative is denied, should parents also be denied the right to raise their children as atheists? Or as priests?
From Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents, by Kenneth Zucker, Ph.D. and Susan Bradley, M. D.

Maximizing a heterosexual outcome:

Despite the advances that the LGBT community is making, queer kids are still in danger across America. That's probably why such a disproportionate number of queer kids commit suicide, even here in SF. Queer kids are in danger from hate crimes even from within their family.

The blogosphere (via Talk Left) ignited over the last month when a queer kid named Zack who was to reprogrammed by a religious ministry blogged about it. He had just come out as gay to his parents and they decided that sending him to a fundamentalist Christian camp in Tennessee called Love in Action was the answer.

His blog was quickly picked up by other bloggers and sparked protests of the camp by a group called Queer Action Coalition, a group that protests against reprogramming of queers.

It is sad to say but everyone has come to expect this kind of attitude from the Christian right. A couple of months ago, I blogged about how an opponent of same sex marriage came to a legislative hearing in Sacramento and told the kid of a lesbian couple that she was the spawn of Satan. A real conversation stopper...

But while I expect this from fundamentalists of every stripe, I was reading up on the subject of reprogramming of queer kids, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and I read about an Association of Therapists and Researchers who still consider homosexuality a mental illness. Since being transgender is still considered a mental illness by mainstream therapists, I wasn't surprised to find problematic literature on their site about gender identity, but I would think that three decades later, they would have come around on this issue. It really is mindboggling.


Back to Zack: No one has heard from him since he went into the program. He has no computer or internet access. What is worse about this story is that it isn't unique. It happens all the time. Right now some kid is being shamed for being queer, probably even within a 100 miles from here. Probably even in San Francisco.