From CityBeat, San Diego, April 12:
After a 27-year run, San Diego’s oldest newspaper catering to the gay community, The Update, announced on March 29 that its publishing company, Dawn Media, would cease production of all six of its publications due to lack of advertising revenue.
Meanwhile, Christian crusader and self-professed ex-gay James Hartline is rejoicing in the spoils.
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Victory was achieved due to a combination of “prayer, trusting in God and speaking out publicly,” he writes.
“That is so beyond ridiculous,” laughed Amber Thorne, vice president of Dawn Media, who had not read the e-mail before CityBeat called for comment. “It’s merely a matter of finances… and there’s just no advertising. We’ve been dealing with the right wing and the wackos for 28 years, and none of our publications have ever flinched in the eye of their bigotry. Not once.”
So now exgays are so numerous and powerful that they are single-handedly responsible for the print-newspaper industry’s declining ad revenues, layoffs, and newspaper closures.
I’m impressed. Maybe James Hartline invented the Internet, too.
Hat tip: Autumn
They always take credit for things that have nothing to do with them. . .just like God sends hurricanes to New Orleans to punish sins, but not to southern Mississippi to punish wacko evangelistas or tornadoes to Tennessee to slap the sin police around.
Publications in the gay community always come and go – and a new one will rise up to take its place soon enough. . .but gosh, where are all of the ex-gay-for-pay publications? One would think they’d be in every public office. . .bwahahahaha
Congratulations, you have a website full of fantasy and fairy tales for the sole purpose of a personal agenda and you seem to spend a lot of time and energy towards it. That would make you one huge fucking idiot and a loser at life.
I only wish the subjects of this website (bigotry and hatred, lies and liar-watching) were fantasy and fairy tales…don’t y’all?
I live in San Diego. I’ve seen firsthand the results of the damage Hartline has done to LGBTQI people as an ex-gay crusader. I’ve recently had a discussion on a transgender/gender variance activism group about the “religious right,” and how a portion of their ilk have began functioning as the “Christian Pharisees.” These new Pharisees have forgotten that Christ intermingled with the poor, prostitutes, publicans, and other sinners. They’ve forgotten the political statement about self-righteous power mongers that Christ himself made in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Specifically, the political statement where Christ Chides those with an agenda and a contempt of the poor by religious leaders becomes more important than helping someone is desperate need, yet the most horribly held person can have the most morals — be the most neighborly.Hartline hasn’t been a good neighbor to LGBTQI folk. I could go on a bit as to why and how, but from his actions it’s clear that whatever his personal demons are and/or have been, his agenda includes distain for the disenfranchised LGBTQI folk in our society. From a distance Hartline appears to look more like a Pharisee than a Good Samaritan.