A group of suburban Maryland educators and parents continues to challenge claims being published by exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton via the Washington Times. (Previous XGW coverage.)
The media blitz by Prof. Throckmorton and PFOX seeks to overturn a comprehensive, abstinence-inclusive sex-education program in the high-profile public schools of suburban Washington, D.C.
Point by point, David Fishback of the district’s sex-ed panel disputes Prof. Throckmorton’s latest rationale for the politicization of exgay therapy.
Addendum: JimK of TeachTheFacts.org wonders why PFOX just launched one of its pricey billboards featuring exgay Christopher Delaney on a suburban thoroughfare near the Montgomery County Public Schools’ offices.
“God invited gay folks to the party”
He certainly did. At least we agree on something, Regan. Now what happens after the party is something we probably disagree on.
regan,
This will be a short reply as I have just moved into a new flat where I will have no power for 3 days. (Just went and bought some candles!)
For your question, perhaps I should have said “during the party”, since I believe the wedding feast of the Lamb is probably ongoing. My point was that people come to the party with all sorts of beliefs about their lives, and part of God’s work is to change us and our opinions on certain matters. eg. I may come to God with the belief that He is ok with my extra-marital relationships, but later I may “come around” to the idea that maybe it is not His best for me.
Similarly, I came to the party with the belief that God was ok with me pursuing a same-sex sexual relationships. I no longer have that opinion, but God didn’t refuse to accept me even when I believed what I did. Neither should the church.
Regan- on that note, I find it interesting that many ex-gay groups are asking people to lie as part of their healing.
They are supposed to call themselves ex-gay from day one, and they are never to speak publicly about their SSA for fear the might embrace them. Hmmm.
It actually sounds similar to my dad’s perceptions on me being gay. He would rather have me pretend not to be gay. Whenever anyone asks about a girlfriend or love interest, he would rather have me lie saying how I am too busy or haven’t found the right one yet. All of this sin to cover up another “sin,” which by the biblical accounts I have seen is just as bad as any other (although the RR may have us believe otherwise).
“The concept of a VERY YOUNG gay person, isn’t absorbed however real that is.”
Regan, how young do you mean? If you mean, before erotic attractions have really started, then I would say that this person is not “gay”, neither are they “straight” in any sense of the word. Their sexual attractions are still in development.
Of course someone will say they “knew” they were gay when they were in grade school. It makes perfect sense to me that they would have had attractions, even if non-sexual, to people of the same sex. But that is not being gay, as far as I can see.
Somehow, I knew you would accuse me of equating a person having homosexual attractions with a person who is involved in extra-marital relationships. I did not do this. I merely used it as an example of something that some people believe is wrong. Not everyone believes that extra-marital relationships are wrong, just as not everyone believes homosexual sexual acts are wrong.
But some people do. I’m a bit pissed off about all the hate too, particularly when it comes from the ex-gay movement, but it doesn’t change the fact that some people decide that something is not what God wants for them, and try to change it. You seem to think it will all go away once people are re-educated. To me, that is the scariest outcome of all.
About lying, I admit that I haven’t told most people about my own attractions – those I have told have generally reacted with love. The thing is, I respect people enough to not go pushing it in everyone’s face.