The author uses Brokeback Mountain (which he hasn't seen) as a jumping-off spot, but that's not what this article is about:Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys
Thanks for the rec. It actually finally forced me to sign up for the NYTimes.com. I'd been procrastinating doing that. Interesting angle with lots of valid points.
This was a really interesting article. Have the evangelicals been up to more stuff in the last couple of days? There's this article, and last night there was a teaser for the 10 PM news here locally, something about how some Christian group thinks gays can go straight, as though this were something newsworthy. I never watch news on that station any more since it's developed a sometimes-not-too-subtle Christian, pro-life, and anti-gay bias in their choice of news pieces. One does wonder, reading this fellow's piece, why on earth he hasn't seen BBM!
Generally speaking, I despise Christian groups. That said, I was behind a car the other day that had a bumper sticker that said: Christians for Kerry/Edwards. Can't tell you how pleased I was to see that. Saw on cnn.com that Fred Phelps' group picketed Coretta Scott King's funeral because she was pro-gay rights. (Fred Phelps, if you don't know his name, is that hateful motherfucker from Topeka, KS, who pickets funerals of AIDS victims, etc. Dreadful excuse for a human being.)To bring this back to point, a guy in the church I grew up in was (and still is, I'm sure) just the most effeminate man. Few years older than me, totally fun guy to party with. (Both our sets of parents are total Bible thumpers.) Anyway, he's been married twice. First wife divorced him because, hello? GAY!!!!omg. He tried a couple of those See the Light type groups during the first marriage but I guess they didn't take.... So awhile back my mom mentioned he and his 2nd wife's new business. I said to my mom my previous opinion: "Mom. Hello? GAY!!!!" And she says to me: "Oh no. Not anymore. He doesn't have that problem anymore." I was so sad for about a week after she told me this. Just sad on *so many* levels. :-(
Yes, me, too about the Xian groups.I don't believe any other group has ever sacrificed so many for one religion. I read a number once of the people killed in the name of Xianity and it topped them all...But I happen to work with a fair number of religious skeptics who are also religious (!?!) and although I will probably never be a believer, they do believe and remain skeptic and liberal at the same time.
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Thanks for the rec. It actually finally forced me to sign up for the NYTimes.com. I'd been procrastinating doing that. Interesting angle with lots of valid points.
This was a really interesting article. Have the evangelicals been up to more stuff in the last couple of days? There's this article, and last night there was a teaser for the 10 PM news here locally, something about how some Christian group thinks gays can go straight, as though this were something newsworthy. I never watch news on that station any more since it's developed a sometimes-not-too-subtle Christian, pro-life, and anti-gay bias in their choice of news pieces. One does wonder, reading this fellow's piece, why on earth he hasn't seen BBM!
Generally speaking, I despise Christian groups. That said, I was behind a car the other day that had a bumper sticker that said: Christians for Kerry/Edwards. Can't tell you how pleased I was to see that. Saw on cnn.com that Fred Phelps' group picketed Coretta Scott King's funeral because she was pro-gay rights. (Fred Phelps, if you don't know his name, is that hateful motherfucker from Topeka, KS, who pickets funerals of AIDS victims, etc. Dreadful excuse for a human being.)To bring this back to point, a guy in the church I grew up in was (and still is, I'm sure) just the most effeminate man. Few years older than me, totally fun guy to party with. (Both our sets of parents are total Bible thumpers.) Anyway, he's been married twice. First wife divorced him because, hello? GAY!!!!omg. He tried a couple of those See the Light type groups during the first marriage but I guess they didn't take.... So awhile back my mom mentioned he and his 2nd wife's new business. I said to my mom my previous opinion: "Mom. Hello? GAY!!!!" And she says to me: "Oh no. Not anymore. He doesn't have that problem anymore." I was so sad for about a week after she told me this. Just sad on *so many* levels. :-(
But you never know; maybe the wife is not what she seems?
But you never know; maybe the wife is not what she seems?
Yes, me, too about the Xian groups.I don't believe any other group has ever sacrificed so many for one religion. I read a number once of the people killed in the name of Xianity and it topped them all...But I happen to work with a fair number of religious skeptics who are also religious (!?!) and although I will probably never be a believer, they do believe and remain skeptic and liberal at the same time.
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