Well, despite the expectation that “thousands of ex-gays” would partake in Ex-Gay Pride Month, fewer than ten people showed up for the big event.
Besides Doyle, ex-gay activists Greg Quinlan of Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays (PFOX), Richard Cohen of the International Healing Foundation and Douglas McIntyre of Homosexuals Anonymous also participated.
However as pathetic as this thing LOOKS it cannot compare to how the event actually SOUNDED!
"Hetero-phobic gay activists will stop at nothing to attack ex-gays. They are anti-diversity and anti-pro-choice. Why can't I choose whom I love? I'm an ex-gay and out and proud. I am so grateful that I did not listen to bigoted gay activists, and instead listened to REAL science and my own inner truth. That is that I am ex-gay. My name is Chuck Peters and I am an ex-queer and a proud ex-gay. We're ex-queers and we are not going anywhere, so get used to us. Hip, hip, hooray for ex-gays. Hip, hip hooray for ex-gays., Hip, hip hooray for ex-gays."
"Hetero-phobic?"
Gays are "anti-divesity?"
You know they told me years ago that if I dropped acid I would have flashbacks like this. I just never thought they would seem so real, or be so confusing!
Do you think somebody should tell these sad individuals, that there is no such thing as an ex-gay? There is only a gay who is denying their sexuality and living a life of shame, and then there are gays who are living life fabulously and out in the open.
So, they "listened to REAL science...." Anyone know what they're referring to?
ReplyDeleteI don't really care what the speaker's sexual orientation is, but that speech was really gay.
DeleteDude, you can have a girlfriend or a wife. No one is trying to convince you otherwise. And it's fine with everyone if you change your mind again, and try to do the re-gay, aka, the Ex-ex-gay.
This is a parody, whether purposely done or not. I hope those six people are happy with their life partner. It's hard to be a victim when you can make the choice for yourself what you want to do with your life and can decide for oneself who they want to love or marry.
They may be choosing to not have same-sex relationships, but they are not "Ex"-anything.
ReplyDeleteI feel the most sorry for anyone who marries these deluded fools and tries to have a traditional marriage. Guaranteed to produce a lot of pain for everyone.
I have known women who unknowingly entered such relationships, and your last sentence is right on the button. Marriage is challenging enough without having to deal with such deep identity issues, including living with a sexually conflicted person who deflects everything onto the female because he does not feel completely 'free'. These stories rarely have a pretty ending.
DeleteI apologize for sounding so cynical, but I doubt the men in the photo are anything, let alone everything, they appear/claim to be. I wonder who paid for their travel expenses, who is behind the funding for their 'non-profit' organizations, and what are the real purposes for their organizations (luring rent boys or secret partners??)???????
I'm not suggesting that that group would look better with facial hair when I truthfully offer my opinion that each of them would rather have a beard for public display more than "to be able to love the person of their *choice* of the opposite sex."
DeleteI'm going to have sex with my husband tonight, and there's no way that teh gays are going to stop me either!!! Hip hip hurray 'cause it's Friday night and Mommy wants to play!!!
There is one possibility you haven't mentioned yet, Jesse, but the likelihood is pretty slim.
ReplyDeleteThose who call themselves Ex-gays may not have been gays to begin with. They may have THOUGHT they were, of course.
See what I mean? Pretty slim chance, right?
Okay. You can kick me now.
(SNARK)
I see you winkin' and blinkin', Leland.
DeleteYou might be a fool sometimes----I don't know that for sure, so l'll just say perhaps --- but I don't get the sense that you are ever a fool's fool.
@7:00.
DeleteUm, Thanks? (laughing)
Actually, I try to be the fool sometimes. It's great for reducing the over-inflated ego and brings fun into my life. (I'm going to believe that is the kind of fool you meant.) Levity is a great health provider.
Also, while I am not consciously a fool's fool, I try never to be a fools tool either.
Isn't it possible that the orientation can change over time. Maybe they were bi-sexual and found an opposite gender partner that satisfied them. Considering how many gays there are in DC, this is a very small percentage.
ReplyDeleteI would think it is more likely they are bisexual as you said and embracing their hetero side. Or they have been shamed into denying their true sexuality. That would be very sad and damaging if that were the case.
DeleteWhen I was a child, my parents and grandparents often made homemade vanilla ice cream, which to me wasn't really ice cream because it wasn't chocolate ice cream. I didn't like girls because they were yucky and besides, my sister was a girl, and she was always telling on me and getting me in trouble.
DeleteThen when I was a teenager, I liked a variety of flavored of ice cream and fell in love with Neapolitan. I liked girls--- a lot (which is to say, i liked girls a lot and I liked a lot of girls) and there were so many to choose from that I couldn't decide which was my favorite. But my sister wasn't my favorite because she seemed to be always on the phone when I needed to call my favorite flavor of the week.
Later, when I was in college, and Blue Bell began distributing ice cream in our state, their Banana Pudding flavor was the bomb. Um, I hadn't met my wife yet, so I better just say that Banana Pudding was awesome and seemed like it was available everywhere. So awesome, yet affordable and always tasted, well, awesome. And that's all I have to say about that.
Nowadays, I wish I could have ice cream that tasted as good as the home made vanilla that we always had when I was a child. And there's never been a gal that I've met that could hold a candle to my wife, and it wasn't for lack of *research* on my part before we finally began dating a few months after i turned 30. I have always been *slow* in some ways--Im a guy, duh---so it took me a while to realize it in realtime, but somewhere along the way, she had became my best friend and my soulmate. My sister--- I *always.* knew she was going to be a great mom and wife for some lucky guy because she always looked after me and kept me out of trouble. We're still close and always will be.
I can't imagine that I'd ever give a damn if somebody I didn't know personally really thought they knew who I needed to be with or care about better than i knew for myself. I'd probably just feel sorry for them not knowing what really matters to me in this world. But I wouldn't bother running them in the ground just because we didn't agree on what would be "best for one another". Life's too short to worry about how someone else chooses to live or who they choose to love because they're following their own heart where it leads them.
We live. We make choices. We make mistakes. We learn and we grow. Then we live some more and the process repeats itself. If we aren't making mistakes we're not doing enough and ain't learning enough. And if we ain't learning, living ain't all it should be.
@ 8:11.
DeleteOh well said!
Now, if we could just get EVERYBODY to understand that....
As the old sign says: POBODY'S NERFECT
I was very fortunate to know at a very young age I was bisexual. my parents, who in their youth traveled the country following the grateful dead, never reinforced gender roles in me and my younger brother.
DeleteI got in trouble at school because I wanted to play house, and be the dad. I didn't understand why girls must like boys, and boys must like girls. I had little school girl crushes on boys and girls, and I thought everyone felt the same as I did.
if you ask other queer folk, most of us can say that we always just kinda KNEW we were queer. the problems start when others begin to judge, and for protections sake, they stay firmly in the closet.
I was fortunate enough to never have to even be in the closet. and my dirty, commie hippie parents had nothing to do with my sexual orientation (my penchant for bare feet and live music, they can take the blame for that entirely) but they had everything to do with raising me to be confident in exactly who I am, queer straight or otherwise.
[chella]
What exactly do they want? The ability to marry someone of the opposite sex (check); the ability to make end of life decisions for their spouses (check); the ability to adopt or bear children (check). Seriously, these people need help of some sort.
ReplyDeleteThey just want to feel some validation for who they are, which they're unsure of, because no one identifies themselves as who they are *not* unless they're either unhappy with who they are themselves OR they feel they are better than someone else.
DeleteBut think about it--- if it takes hearing themselves point out that they are better than some others group of folks to makes themselves happier, that's just kind of sad, in my opinion. If people don't know who they are themselves, how can they ever be happy?
Happiness is not a zero sum game. If I'm happier today because it's Friday and I'm looking forward to a great weekend, it doesn't have to come at the expense of someone else having a really shifty day, thinking their own upcoming weekend will suck. That *someone else* can be happy because they lived another day or because their dog had puppies or because they are reading a great book or because the weather was so nice today or whatever makes them happy. We all can be happy about different things at the same time. Wouldn't life be pleasant for everybody if everybody else was happy. It would seem so, but maybe I'm just naive and it's one of those "Ignorance is Bliss" things.
Actually, I know that ignorance is just ignorance, and everyone chooses their own level of ignorance once they have some sense of self-awareness. I just choose to focus on being more appreciative on the good than he negative, because it makes me more pleasant to be around, I've been told. And that made me happy, so I'm now in this crazy "happy cycle". Weird, I know, but it's just one of my *bad*habits.
There is a third option, people who were never gay and are lying about their sexual orientation. I think that these people fall in that catagory...
ReplyDeleteHey Jesse, I bet if you turn on Fox tonight it will show a huge gathering for this rally. Of course, the fact that the footage will be black and white and MLK is speaking might be a sign that they are faking numbers again like they have showing "huge" tea party rallies.
ReplyDeleteAhh the dopes who were shamed by religion to fall into a "straight" line.
ReplyDeleteOh, man, this is one of the most pathetic things I've ever SEEN.
ReplyDeleteNormally, such delusional bullshit is accompanied by an obvious drive to bilk money from sexually conflicted or righteously indignant fools.
I'm surprised there isn't such an obvious money aspect (or are we missing the obvious?)
You mean all the ones that Marcus Bachmann converted didn't show up?
ReplyDeleteWho woulda thunk it?
Ex-gay bashing? Seriously? I've never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing close to that is the criticism of those who think that you can pray the gay away, and claim to have done it themselves. These people rightly should be criticized. They have an agenda, and are most likely not what they claim to be.
But as for people who formerly had same-sex relationships and is now in a hetero one? I have never heard of these people being persecuted or bashed. Have you?
Gryphen, I'm close to certain that guy was trolling them. Re-read his words. He's mocking them!
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