- The Southern Baptist Convention extends its battle against freedom of religion among Southern Baptists.
- The antigay National Organization for Marriage exploited Miss California pageant winner Carrie Prejean last week when it created an ad around her and falsely claimed that Prejean had lost a Miss USA crown (she never had the crown — she wasn’t even a front-runner) due to her false and uneducated answers to simple questions about marriage for gay people. After a week of interviews in which Prejean touted Christian values, criticized liberal values of individual freedom, and demonstrated an absence of critical thinking and pro-family insight regarding marriage, now NOM is embarrassed by the revelation of recent nearly-nude pictures of Prejean, who — like her gay nemesis Perez Hilton — appears willing to say or do almost anything to generate controversy and fame for herself. Now she will likely lose the Miss California crown — as she should: Her amorality, partisan politics, and poor judgment are a poor reflection upon America. But don’t blame Prejean or ask her to demonstrate personal responsibility. Blame the homosexuals who made her act intellectually vacant, politically intolerant, and oversexed.
- Joseph Nicolosi, ex-gay therapist and former president of NARTH, declares that 75 percent of his patients have been cured of homosexuality — though, when consulted independently, these patients seem neither to agree that they have been cured, nor to agree with Nicolosi that their parents caused any trauma that would result in their ongoing homosexual attraction. Nicolosi refuses to document his claim.
- Exodus International president Alan Chambers — not content to foster vigilante violence in Uganda — is now referring to U.S. gay people as God’s cripples. Or, to be more precise, God’s hell-bound and “handicapped” children — but with a wink and a nudge that says a bit too much.
Briefly: Baptists, Boobies, Bad Parents, and God’s Cripples
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Michael Airhart is a news editor, digital media technician, founder of Ex-Gay Watch, and advocate for free speech, freedom of religion, and human rights. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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As a woman who left the Assemblies of God church in part because of the repressive attitudes about womens’ sexuality, I don’t really want to judge Prejean for posing topless. That’s what people in her church do. I’m Pagan, and I don’t believe in shaming people about their bodies. However, she’s allowed herself to become a spokeswoman for conservative Evangelical Christianity and “family values”, and she thinks that LGBT people should live by the sexually repressive standards that she, at least as far as her appearance goes, has cast aside for herself.
I remember being told not to wear the brightly patterned tights I loved, as a chubby teenage girl with athletic legs, because they made guys looked at my legs and therefore “caused my brothers to stumble” sexually. Other women who grew up in conservative Evangelical churches can tell similar stories, and I understand there is a huge emphasis on “modesty”–that is, guilt-tripping girls about their bodies–in today’s youth groups. But Prejean can wear a teeny white bikini or less because she’s publicly opposed LGBT civil rights in Jesus’ name?! I’ll bet there are some angry teenage girls in the youth groups right now. I’m okay with that.