NARTH sent out an email looking to form a rapid response team to counter “misinformation in the media or other cultural institutions about reorientation therapy.” Exgay groups have been getting a lot more attention in the media with the buzz surrounding the Zach story, and the exgay story could be in the limelight for a while.
Exgay groups already have a lead on ex-exgays, operating through high-level organizations like Exodus and cooperating with groups like NARTH and Focus on the Family.
If ex-exgays wanted to form a similar group (cooperating with groups like PFLAG and the APA), it would vastly strengthen the ability for ex-exgays to make their stories known and to get out a message of their own. In the current media blitz, such an organization would be a great help to those who believe conversion therapy doesn’t work.
Since there exists no such high-level organization at the moment, our list is probably a good place to start.
I agree with that a group of ex-ex gays is a good idea. I was simply disappointed with Joe Solomnese’s debate with Warren Throckmorton. Joe simply seemed ill-equipped to adequately debate the issue. He deals with gay issues, not ex-gay issues, and it showed.
I agree Joe did not appear up to the task.But Warren also, fortunately, has an easier task at such times. All he needs play is the spoiler:
This needs be pushed the other way. We aren’t asking anyone to do anything other than midn their own business. They are telling other people to change or act against people. Why should I change? What proof do you have that I can? Actually, what right do you have to do this to me?It also needs a familiarity with the nonsense “research” they pull out of their nether regions at such times. Then you may ask “Why are you lying about what that researcher said?”
I didn’t see that interview. If what you say is accurate, then it looks like Solomnese didn’t do his homework.
If true, I would not find that surprising. That has been my complaint with gay-rights organizations all along — they don’t actually hear anything that is going on outside the political cocktail circuit or the gayborhood. Our so-called advocates are in such a bubble they have become largely irrelevant. They have no clue whatsoever.
“Reorientation therapy”? Is that what they’re calling it now?
Used to be called something line “reparative therapy.”
I guess they can’t get anything straight.
(Pun intended)