(Photo credit Michael Allen Jones, mjones@sacbee.com)
For much of Jacques Whitfield’s 11-year marriage (pictured) he maintained a parallel life. He cheated on his wife and, he said, cheated himself. Now he has come out and is happy. This is a tale of why the closet and so-called “ex-gay” organizations are harmful to gay people and their families.
Even with countless stories, such as this, “ex-gay” programs continue to promote doomed marriages. This is because they care more about politics than people. They hold inflexible lies above real lives. The damage is all around, yet groups like Exodus, Focus on the Family and NARTH are too blinded by their flawed Biblical interpretations to see. They do so much wrong in the name of right, incredible harm in the guise of hope, with a staggering price on individuals and society.
Will they ever learn? Or, will their fanaticism make them immune from the facts?
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Anyone recall the hilarious Will & Grace episode where Jack & Karen went to an ex-gay ministry because Jack thought the pastor was cute!
They were greeted by a married couple~~the husband was a nellie queen & the wife was a super butch dyke!
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And the pastor was played by out gay actor Neil Patrick Harris!
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Comment by David Alex Nahmod — March 9, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
The “ex gay” ministries like to sometimes show pictures of these “ex gays” in seemingly content heterosexual relationships, but they never seem to show us their divorce pictures.
Comment by James — March 9, 2009 @ 5:07 pm