When speaking across America, people often marvel when I talk about the strange, unnatural things so-called “ex-gays” do to change their natural sexual orientation. On the list of forbidden objects for ex-gays is sexy underwear.
This week, an “ex-gay” man actually asked to be taken off an underwear mailing list because pictures of the garments were leading him to temptation. He also chastised the company’s workers for leading people to sin.
Check out this nutty ex-gay’s letter to the company by clicking HERE.
Sadly typical of so many ex-gay advocates these days — instead of simply practicing celibacy and keeping sexual hangups to oneself, this man pontificates about everyone else and seeks to control their lives as well as his. And then he deifies himself and speaks as though he were God — hubris personified, and a violation (as I recall) of the Ten Commandments.
P.S. That underwear graphic is tempting me.
Life must be horrible for this “ex-gay” (who I believe is possibly Michael Glatze, judging from the writing style).
Can you imagine how nutty he gets walking past those homoerotic images at A&F in the mall, or the ads in the paper for local gyms, the Hanes commercials on television, and pretty much all contact with a male?
He probably keeps a BAG of rubber bands in his pocket.
SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP
“This is your brain on ex-gay propaganda.” Scary, isn’t it?
So does this guy think Jesus is holy and almighty? Because I can’t tell if he really thinks Jesus is holy and almighty or not. It’s like, it kinda seems like he might think he’s holy and almighty, but Idunno, I’d have to see him be called holy and almighty a few more times before I was convinced that this guy really thinks he’s holy and almighty.
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Adverts like these shouldn’t be allowed: they make me feel really gay.
This gentleman has a much greater struggle ahead of him than he knows, and the odds are definitely stacked against him. No matter how desperately you try to destroy your natural sexuality, it’ll break out in ways that you’d never envisaged.
Years ago now, I went through a period of psychological depression caused by having to live and work in a city that I hated. The result was that I completely lost interest in sex (and in just about everything else) and my sexual attraction to anyone was reduced to zero. Like a lot of people who find themselves in an intolerable situation, I started going to church again and that kept me going, and I’ve kept it up ever since. At that time I still hadn’t fully come to terms with my sexuality, and I thought that either God had miraculously removed my homosexuality; or else I’d never really been gay after all, just an exceptionally late developer whose youthful “homosexual phase” had finally come to an end.
When I managed to change the circumstances of my life I gradually started to recover, and I realised that I was as gay as I’d ever been. What first brought this home to me were two television adverts, and neither of them was for men’ underwear or anything like that.
One advert was for — yes, you guessed it — British Gas. You couldn’t see anyone in the advert; all you could see was a gas cooker; but it was the sound of the invisible guy’ voice in the background singing “Cook … cook … cookability — that’ the beauty of gas!” that made me feel that I’d like to…well, you know.
The other was an advert for coca-cola. It began with a really nice young guy (fully clothed), of about my own age group, jumping out of a tree into a boat, holding a bottle of coke and singing something or other. I tried to ignore that yearning feeling and to guard my thoughts, but even so, I knew that if only I could have got into that boat with him…
So if it’ not the male underwear, it’ll be something else. This chap is batting on a losing wicket.
I feel sorry for this guy, religion has messed him up so. He’s clearly desperate to deny who he is out of fear of the loving, wonderful, and merciful god who’s going to torture him for eternity if he accepts himself as the gay man he is.
Ex-gay fear of clothing isn’t limited to sexy underwear.
Young-adult participants in Exodus’ flagship program, Love In Action, have been forbidden from shopping at Abercrombie and Fitch. Apparently, overpriced age-appropriate clothing and cologne-scented store air turn people gay. Wal-Mart turns shoppers straight.
Who knew.
Mike it probably has more to do with the homo-erotic undertones of the photos of the models in the store rather than the clothing itself. In fact this was heavily parodied in several sketches on the show “MADtv.”
I agree Emily, but that’s even sillier — ex-gays encounter countless people in ordinary daily life who are better-looking than A&F models. Telling ex-gays not to look at anyone who’s attractive is unhealthy, antisocial, and counterproductive.
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