Freaks Unleashed : Chimp and Chain-Knee Cannot Contain The RW Hate Mongers

[jefferson_dem]

The fallout from the feeding frenzy surrounding the story (which will go unmentioned) is represented in the memo below, which was written by a group of "ex gays" seeking to pow-wow with Dick and Lynn, who are similarly ashamed of the orientations...er choices...er sins...of their offspring.

Contact: Regina Griggs, PFOX Executive Director, 703-360-2225

News Advisory, October 14
An open letter to Dick and Lynn Cheney from Regina Griggs:

....Senator Kerry deliberately misled the American public as well as people who have unwanted same-sex attractions when he stated that people are born gay. He should know better.... The ex-gays are living proof that change is possible, and they also provided the staffs with educational information on former homosexuality, including a statement from the American Psychiatric Association that there are no "replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality." Ex-gays explained that although no one chooses same sex attractions, many men and women overcome unwanted same sex attractions every year.

Ex-gays also presented the Senators' offices with a Congressional resolution on tolerance for former homosexuals. The resolution calls for Congress to condemn intolerance against ex-gays and to affirm its commitment to a society that respects all people, including former homosexuals. Now who could be opposed to that? Yet both Senators have refused to state whether they support the resolution.

Homosexual activists like those working on the Kerry-Edwards team want "gay marriage" and civil unions in order to gain public affirmation. They think this will make them happy. Happiness requires hope, and real hope is the knowledge that many men and women overcome unwanted same-sex attractions every year, even those who believed at one time that they were born that way and had no choice.

Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, let me conclude by saying that I hope you'll sit down with PFOX someday and find kindred souls and new hope that you might not have known existed.

Found at http://www.americablog.org/

[louis-t]

1. Ex-gays?

[spanone]

4. What is an ex-gay? Cured of their gayness? Load of Crap.

[Bronco69]

7. Yep, Ex-Gays or so they claim.

There is a group called Exodus International (I think that's the name) that claims gays can be cured of their "gayness." They say it's just a psychological disorder. They have been proven time and time again that their program doesn't work. Even the leader of their movement was caught coming out of a gay bar, and when he was confronted with it he claimed that he was only there to do research. :eyes:

[caledesi]

9. If there are "ex-gays" are there also "ex-heteros?" hmmmm nt

[Mizmoon]

2. Ah, the American Psychiatric Society is brought up

Well, they tried shocking and medicating gay people into submission for decades, didn't work. But I guess you have to "Want to get better".

This crap is sickening. They should call themselves the "self-loathing gays movement".

[gratuitous]

8. And notice they don't have a reference?

They simply quote an unreferenced American Psychiatric Association paper? How long ago was it written? The APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses decades ago after years of unenlightened and uninformed policies based on bad research and sampling.

But then, "ex-gays" and the Truth don't exactly walk hand-in-hand.

[liberalitch]

3. ya notice that this phrase is repeated twice...

"...many men and women overcome unwanted same-sex attractions every year..."
What does that tell ya?

[atommom]

5. Religious deprogramming, no doubt with a heavy dose of guilt. Creepy!

[popstalin]

6. The founders of the "gay transformation" movement

Ended up together for years. Basically it is religious deprogramming however, it doesn't change ones sexual orientation just their preference. There's a documentary about it but the name excapes me at the moment.