“Mrs. Bush is the overseer of the event, and all families are welcome to attend”
Spokesman to Mrs. Bush, Peter Watkins told Detroit News columnist Deb Price. Same-sex headed families will identify themselves at the egg roll with rainbow leis. Perhaps ex-gay headed families will select a fashionable item from the PFOX CafePress store.
Recently Good As You and Ex-gay podcaster Duncan Bouwer covered the PFOX store.
Sounds like a clear case of discrimination against ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-gays to me.
oh bah let the (ex)^5-gays start their own blog and take up the issue 😛
Deb Price did something with her column that I wish more would do – she focused on the positive. Other than mentioning Postcards to Buster as the impetus for getting the egg rolling she had nothing negative to say.
Instead we heard that a little girl is excited about Easter, that Mamie Eisenhower opened up the event “to all” when she noticed it was racially segregated, that Laura Bush is following that principle with regard to gay families, and that Barbara Bush has also quietly countered anti-gay hostility.
Yes, the actions of the husbands of these women could have been contrasted and condemned. And there is a time and place for that. Or Deb could have listed the anti-gay blowhards that want to keep gay families off the White House Lawn.
But this article was a happy piece that offered praise for inclusion and the good that some had done and left me with a pastel happy feeling of hope and joy. And that is, after all, what Easter is all about (well, that and chocolate bunnies).
Posted by: Timothy Kincaid at April 5, 2006 06:01 PM
Ok, I just have to say it – Amen!
David
If PFOX stands for “Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays” why doesn’t their store also sell “gay is ok” items next to the “ex-gay is ok” ones?
And technically shouldn’t the acronym be PFOXGG anyway?
Maybe they should change their slogan to:
“PFOX: Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays^
^Gay not included”
good point, Dunks.
I seem to recall that Regina Griggs is the parent of a gay man (not ex-gay) and her motivation is that he won’t let her control his life. Someone correct me if I got that wrong.
I wonder if they have a single person involved who is the parent of an ex-gay.
Unlike PFLAG which is an organization by, for, and of parents and family of gay people, PFOX is simply an anti-gay group seeking to legitimize their cause by falsely suggesting that they are aggrieved parents seeking to protect their ex-gay children.
But it’s not too surprising. You don’t get a whole lot of honesty and integrity from the ex-gay / anti-gay movement.
Ex-Gay starts with ‘E’, not ‘X’. So it’s not PFOXGG, it’s PFO-EGG. ‘EGG’… whoa, that can’t be a coincidence!!!
I’m so bored with this topic, I’m boycotting Chinese takeout…
Seriously, it’s good that one Bush cares about family equality.
I went to that PFOX site.
I had no ideas dogs could be the parents of ex-gays.
Oh well, learn something everyday.
Not cats apparently.
Well, Jayelle, if your bored, there’s always the “Charisma Online Forum.” Some people there believe that “the lying on of hands” will chase the “demon” of homosexuality right out of you. Here are some samples.
The laying on of hands always had precisely the opposite effect in me.
Yikes – that Charisma thread is scary. The inability of people to dismiss reality and science in favor of ‘faith’ never ceases to amaze me. I went through a spooky deliverance session several years ago. Lots of shouting at the demons: “Tell us your naaaaaaaaaaame!!” It worked really well – for about 20 minutes. 😉
Rick,
yeah… I’ve seen a few of those.
I recall from my childhood some poor woman who was having “demons cast out” (I don’t recall why). She was either responding with sardonic humor or was a bit confused about her demon. To “tell us your naaaaaaaame!!” she responded “my name is coffee”. I don’t recall that the prayer team was very successful in casting “coffee” out of the poor soul. It could be because they all had major caffeine additions of their own.
Hahaha Timothy. That would probably do it 😉 Maybe my ‘deliverers’ were closet homos!