When antigay fundamentalists periodically spray-paint walls, break windows or commit arson at gay-tolerant churches, Focus on the Family does not leap on the air and blame “pro-family activists.” In fact, Focus often fails to report the crime.
Yet when, in the wee hours of Feb. 10, some unwitnessed coward tossed a single carton of eggs at a St. Louis church building that will host an upcoming exgay roadshow, Focus exgay operative Melissa Fryrear raced to print with a sensational story lacking any evidence that “gay activists” were, as Focus alleges, to blame for the “vandalism” of one ruined egg carton.
Focus could have cited police investigators’ initial progress in tracing the eggs. Focus could also have calculated the repair costs — $0.79 for a sponge and water, and perhaps 25 cents per egg. Focus could even have one-upped the egg-thrower by scrambling the eggs for an impromptu church buffet this weekend.
Instead, Focus deliberately confuses acts of vandalism with the honored tradition of American political protest — and justifies its accusations by citing arbitrary acts of minor vandalism that are attributable not to gay activists, but to individual vandals.
Let us bow our heads for a moment of prayer for the idiot who wasted a carton of perfectly good eggs — and for a deeply paranoid religious sect that equates broken eggs with the murder of gay Christians and history’s other true martyrs.
In the view of Focus on the Family, political protest appears to be indistinguishable from vandalism unless the protesters agree with Focus on the Family. And silly pranks, most likely committed by unidentified youths, rate as page-one material, while reports of arson and murder against gay people of faith go unreported anywhere on the Focus web site.
On an unrelated note- yet another interesting Brokeback review:
https://www.drthrockmorton.com/article.asp?id=181
Dr. Throckmorton’s unverifiable ex-gay anecdote is mostly notable for the claim it doesn’t make.
It is really interesting how the interviewee states that he is no longer attracted to men, but it never says he is now attracted to women. As far as I know from those quotes is that he is just not concerned about sex at all, which is something that exgay therapy tends to deal with well. I do admire the man since he had made a choice to marry and he stayed with it. That is admirable. Sex is not the be all and end all of a relationship. However, I do wonder what Lois thinks about her husband’s situation. Does she wonder every day if she will be attractive to him?
I find as I get older that my relationship has never focused on sex. I love my spouse more than anyone can ever imagine, and if something happened to him, I could never have another relationship because ours has been perfect, beyond perfect. Those feelings were not based on sex ever.
I am in sympathy with the recent spate of church burnings going on in the country recently.
So far, the only leads are that it’s two white men.
I wonder at the motive and who is responsible.
I’m surprised that someone hasn’t brought up accusing gay men of doing it.
And if it is gay men, would anyone be surprised?
Of course there is no reason to approve of such horrendous vandalism and there could possibly be an accidental injury to someone by torching the churches.
But if the culprits are gay-I doubt anyone would try to begin the understand the motive.
The Church, has been the foundation to and the reason for much destruction and devastation to gay lives.
The burnings of several churches, pales in comparison to that.
I can think of two incidents in other countries where the congregants burned their own church in response to same gender marriages being performed in them.
If there is a teaching moment in all this, that is if gay people are a part of the mix, rather than look for sympathy for themselves and the destruction of the church…perhaps sympathy for what terrible price gays and lesbians have paid is more in order.
And how any church’s strength being supported on the hate of gays isn’t right.
But I doubt that’s the way they’ll see it.
On the other hand…nobody gay has ever done anything like this before, no reason to start now.
The world is full of knuckleheads, and FOTF loves to blame gay folks for everything.
Ah, the great martyrs of Focus on the Family. They are so commendable for standing strong in the face of such adversity. Thou they be persecuted by eggs and reviled by pro-gay literature, they continue at great personal risk to share their love.
And such intolerance they face from those seeking to live the homosexual lifestyle!! Though they always demand tolerance, homosexuals show no tolerance for those upstanding Christians who refuse to accept their existence.
All Fryrear and her dear friends are trying to do is preach freedom to those bound by sin. And it is truly freedom to throw in jail those who seek to live bound by homosexuality.
She seeks to bring truth and for this she is mocked. She brings the Truth that homosexuals all die by age 42 and each has hundreds of sexual partners where they sit around and eat feces.
She seeks to bring love. That’s why she campaigns to take away health insurance or job protection, it’s real love. Not that soppy new-agey love in which you feed the hungry, care for widows and orphans, visit those in jail, or cloth the naked. NO! She brings real love – the kind that makes sure the homosexual activists are defeated on every level, just like Jesus said.
She brings choice. Every kid in school should be presented with the choice to go voluntarily to Love in Action or be dragged there in handcuffs. Those liberals claim they support choice and they refuse to let Melissa tell their children in public school that if they don’t want to burn in hell forever they should become ex-gay. And they should beat up other gay kids until they do also.
But praise God, you know you are doing His will when Satan attacks you. And this evil vandalism on this godly church shows that Satan and his homosexual minions are out in force. Oh yes, it is Satan’s will that this church be so egregiously vandalized by a dozen eggs.
Boo, it is worth noting…that the person interviewed by Warren Throckmorton — Rob Winslow — in fact runs an Exodus francise in Colorado: Healing Presence Ministries.And no, Warren did not mention that in his article. The obviously prior bisexuality is also not explored — we just have Rob’s untested claim to have “changed” and to be no longer “attracted” to men (whatever that means).
And I WISH Warren would turn that music off!!!Apart from being an unwelcome bandwidth hog… it sounds like the intro to a bad porno made in the 1970’s.
I want to be as emotionally healthy as James Dobson, dammit.
I want to be strong enough to beat my pet daschund because he isn’t sleeping where I want him to. Lord knows that only the most secure and well-adjusted among us would be concerned about proving our dominance over a sweet little dog.
–oh, wait, I’m a gurl, I guess I’m not supposed to be dominant anyway. My bad. What I need to do is find a big strong man who can beat up a dachsund *for me.*