Which was going to be the first ex-gay group to come out and suggest Mark Foley enter a conversion program?
We finally have our answer, PFOX. It took long enough…
(via Good As You)
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Which was going to be the first ex-gay group to come out and suggest Mark Foley enter a conversion program?
We finally have our answer, PFOX. It took long enough…
(via Good As You)
I find Regina Griggs’s advice both inappropriate and disturbing.
In my experience, gay men who cannot or will not accept their sexual orientation, or who take a negative view of it, are precisely those who are most likely to engage in irresponsible, dangerous, or self-destructive behaviour of the kind that has been alleged against Mark Foley.
They are also the ones most likely to have serious problems with alcohol and/or drugs (whether illicit or medically prescribed).
Homosexuals contact us daily for help in overcoming their same-sex desires,” Griggs said.
I challenge that statement. PFOX appears to be a coven of angry, bitter parents who gather on the Internet to commiserate with one another about their “wayward” children. They are practically xenophobic in their lack of contact with outsiders. I know, I tried for weeks. Exodus may be able to make this statement truthfully, but I don’t really see how PFOX can.
The Foley scandal is disturbing; the PFOX response is chill down the spine disturbing as well.
“Exodus may be able to make this statement truthfully, but I don’t really see how PFOX can.”
Some ex-gay ministries see the world from their limited perspective and report this as though it were universal. Not very admirable, but not evil either.
Some ex-gay ministries redefine words and shade language to deceive the listener, but don’t (often) come right out and lie. They spin, twist, extrapolate, and hyperbolize. It’s unethical, but at least they can pretend that it’s “true”.
Then there are those – like Regina Griggs – who don’t even try to stay within the boundaries of fact.
“The Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual Republican group, … oppose[s] the message of hope for overcoming unwanted same-sex attractions by denying the facts that ex-gays do exist and that change is possible.”
Really, Regina? When did Log Cabin EVER oppose or deny that ex-gays exist? Or did you just make that up?
Regina’s own son, who is gay, won’t go through an ex-gay program, how can she expect the rest of us to?
She really needs to stop exorcising her personal demons on the general public.
I consider Regina Grigg’s statement a day late and a dollar short. It would not at all surprise me to hear Foley say, that is when he’s given the green light to resurface, he was cured of his proclivities towards teen males OR that he’s an ex-gay.
Why does she think that Mr. Foley’s same-sex attractions are “unwanted”?
Carlos, it’s probably due to his being for many years an anti-gay-in-the-closet Republican.
“Ex-Congressman Foley Needs Sexual Reorientation, Not Alcohol Rehab”
When did ex-gay groups start using the term “reorientation”? I thought I heard an ex-gay leader somewhere (sorry, I can’t remember who) say they didn’t like “reorientation” or “conversion therapy” terms because it implied turning gays into straights.