I told the AoG blogger that if you look closely at the stories (like with the man he brought up) of these 'ex-gays,' you find a pattern of same-sex sexual abuse, forced same-sex prostitution, and just these horrible same-sex sexual experiences that led them to want to leave homosexuality because they blame it for what they went through.
I questioned if many of these people were really even gay and by getting out of and dealing with these damaging traumas related to homosexuality, they went back to their true nature of heterosexuality (I don't see many heterosexual men wanting sex with other men because they've had bad opposite-sex experiences).
The big 3 who toot this "Gays Can Change" line for the self loathing and their anti-gay Christian enablers are NARTH, considered the largest 'medical' organization touting the ex-gay myth with mental health quakes held over from the era when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Exodus International, the largest umbrella group for ex-gay ministries across the nation whose handsome founder ran off with another handsome man and then renounced the organization, and topping off the unholy ex-gay trinity is PFOX (a slap in the face to the friends and families gay affirming group PFLAG), a group with a persecution complex who's president is a mother who resented her son being gay so much, she made it her life mission to tell other parents it's O.K. if you don't accept your child's homosexuality and still love Jesus.
If you follow the money trails with these organizations you'll find they are funded by rabid anti-gay conservative groups who parade these supposed ex-gays out in the public to say; "See?! You aren't born gay and here's the proof. Now dance like a monkey for us you ex-gay freaks so everyone can see you!"
Recently it was big news when Exodus International reversed it's stance on gays "changing" that sent a blow to the whole ex-gay circus that followed various scandals of ex-gay leadership who couldn't stay on the opposite-sex love bandwagon and ex-gay groups getting caught twisting scientific data for their own agenda. Even my favorite anti-gay theologian Robert Gagnon got in on the fray when he wrote that the president of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, step down over this reversal (Gagnon's pushing himself into this discussion like he does with anything relating to homosexuality, including secular politics, made me realize even more what I've said all along, the man is fanatical (read; obsessed) when it comes to the homosexuality and it's not just a Bible issue he claims God forced on him) that forced Exodus to give a public response to Gagnon.*
The big 3 who toot this "Gays Can Change" line for the self loathing and their anti-gay Christian enablers are NARTH, considered the largest 'medical' organization touting the ex-gay myth with mental health quakes held over from the era when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Exodus International, the largest umbrella group for ex-gay ministries across the nation whose handsome founder ran off with another handsome man and then renounced the organization, and topping off the unholy ex-gay trinity is PFOX (a slap in the face to the friends and families gay affirming group PFLAG), a group with a persecution complex who's president is a mother who resented her son being gay so much, she made it her life mission to tell other parents it's O.K. if you don't accept your child's homosexuality and still love Jesus.
If you follow the money trails with these organizations you'll find they are funded by rabid anti-gay conservative groups who parade these supposed ex-gays out in the public to say; "See?! You aren't born gay and here's the proof. Now dance like a monkey for us you ex-gay freaks so everyone can see you!"
Recently it was big news when Exodus International reversed it's stance on gays "changing" that sent a blow to the whole ex-gay circus that followed various scandals of ex-gay leadership who couldn't stay on the opposite-sex love bandwagon and ex-gay groups getting caught twisting scientific data for their own agenda. Even my favorite anti-gay theologian Robert Gagnon got in on the fray when he wrote that the president of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, step down over this reversal (Gagnon's pushing himself into this discussion like he does with anything relating to homosexuality, including secular politics, made me realize even more what I've said all along, the man is fanatical (read; obsessed) when it comes to the homosexuality and it's not just a Bible issue he claims God forced on him) that forced Exodus to give a public response to Gagnon.*
In a way I feel sorry for these rare birds called "ex-gays." To me they are the walking damaged who believe that for God to love them, they have to hate that part of themselves that can love another.
Now that reparative therapy is finally seen for the horror it is since I first wrote this post way back in 2013, "ex-gays" are now changing their tune to; "GOD changed me, not a group that I joined to help me change." I also see they are becoming more strident with holding events and marches and giving their ex-gay "testimony" across social medias like TikTok, but isn't that rubbing it in our faces? What the anti-gay says gays do with hijacking rainbows and Pride parades?
* Exodus International is now shuttered with their leaders either apologizing or running into the private sector without saying a word (Paulk is now a chef who makes his own béarnaise sauce from scratch) and that includes the Jewish equivalent of Exodus, JONAH, that the courts shut down.
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| Jeff couldn't pack his Dior luggage bags fast enough when he saw the "Ex-Gay Camp" counselors on the brochure his parents were shipping him off to. |
2 comments:
Heartbreaking.
What's interesting is that Narth itself says they have only a 30% success rate and even that is questionable because they do no follow-ups on their patients.
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