Concerned Women for America send Cheneys an open letter "About Mary"

[BurtWorm]

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http://www.cwfa.org/articles/6582/CFI/family/index.htm


About Mary: An Open Letter to Dick and Lynn Cheney 10/25/2004

PFOX’s Regina Griggs says VP’s daughter deserves better.



Editor’s note: During the presidential and vice presidential debates, the subject of Mary Cheney’s sexuality was raised in relation to the marriage issue. Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) Executive Director Regina Griggs wrote this letter to Dick and Lynne Cheney:


I am saddened by the outrageous behavior of Sens. Kerry and Edwards, who inexplicably and insensitively injected your daughter Mary's sexuality into the presidential debates.


I am the parent of a homosexual child and the executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), a national organization that offers support and education to families and friends of homosexuals, and advocates for the rights of ex-gays.


Mary is, I'm sure, a fine young woman with many wonderful qualities, and that is how she should be recognized. To label anyone solely by their sexuality is demeaning and inappropriate. As parents, we can and do love our children unconditionally no matter who they are attracted to. Loving unconditionally allows us the freedom to maintain our values and viewpoints while keeping a bridge open to our children.


Sen. 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.


On May 13, 2004, PFOX and ex-gay men and women met with the staffs of Sens. Kerry and Edwards. (See photo.) 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 some day and find kindred souls and new hope that you might not have known existed.



Sincerely,
Regina Griggs
Executive Director
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays

[troublemaker]

1. re: "To label anyone solely by their sexuality is demeaning"

To label anyone solely as Dick Cheney's daughter is slanderous.

Lovely words from people that want to electro-shock Mary Cheney into craving man flesh.

[RinaJ]

2. Goodness

One long spiral into the CRAZY!

"Sen. 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."
:wtf:

[lcooksey]

24. One long spiral into the crazy

I love that line. Can I use that?

Oh, and the PFOX people are nuts.

[snowbear]

3. pahhhleeeese Regina Griggs!

:nopity:

[CO Liberal]

4. An Entire Group Of Misguided Individuals.....

...who haven't got a clue.

[liberal_in_GA]

5. I just think that old bag Ms. Griggs

needs to get laid. Maybe after reading some of Mrs. Cheney's lesbian-flavored porn. :eyes:

[mumon]

6. "There's Something About Mary"

was a great vehicle for Ben Stiller.

[gratuitous]

7. Awww, that's so sweet!

"We love and accept our children without resorting to demeaning and dehumanizing labels. Then we demand that they change their very nature or we'll cut them off completely."

Assheads.

[MsTryska]

8. This just reminds me of Season 1 of

Queer as Folk. Poor Emmett.

[w13rd0]

9. PFOX?

What a fuckin joke. More exodus ministries bullshit.

[BurtWorm]

12. Make your FOX the PFOX.

:scared:

[sonicx]

10. let's see those cheneys denounce this

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[ibegurpard]

11. Whoa!

At first read, I thought that this letter was sent by someone from PFLAG...and was about to go ballistic! Coming from an organization like this, though, who would expect anything else?

[Demit]

13. "ex-gays". Sure. Reminds me of that great "Will & Grace" episode. More

denial and self-deception. And heartache for the people they try to turn. Ugh.

[Randypiper]

14. Their next objective will be to bleach people of color.

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[onenote]

15. but discrimination against "ex-straights" is fine and dandy

[Supersedeas]

16. born gay...he should know better???

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

17. But I'm a cheerleader! nt

[Cats Against Frist]

18. "ex-gays?" What the fuck?

No matter how much the lemon-faced bitches over at CWA want to crow about this, the "rehabilitation" numbers for "ex-gays" is pretty poor, and relapse is very high.

These people are nuuuuuts. I can't think of anything more sad than an "ex-gay." I mean the right thinks you have to be majorly screwed up to be GAY -- the psyche of an ex-gay must be terrifying.

[murielm99]

22. Ever notice how the Christian extremists HATE science,

unless they can turn it into junk science that they can distort to fit their own worldview?

Sheese.

[mitchum]

19. Mary Cheney is a "professional homosexual" She, her parents,...

and the GOP are the ones PIMPING her sexuality.

Fuck Concerned Women for America

[Liberal Gramma]

20. Now that we've heard from the mothers

of gays, who claim that sexual orientation can and should be changed, let's hear from gays themselves. I suspect we'd hear a different side.

[terrya]

21. You all do know that this "ex-gay" stuff is bullshit, don't you?

You cannot change sexual orientation. Period.

I just wanted to dispell this blatantly cruel, idiotic very thinly disguised hate.

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

23. OK... If by their twisted logic ex-gays are now heterosexual

Why do they need a congressional resolution condemning intolerance of these same heterosexuals??!! Yet another example of the right wingnuts playing the victim.