In an undated interview with conservative radio show host Jesse Lee Peterson, “ex-gay” activist Charlene Cothran shares her thoughts. In the audio message below, Cothran:
- says that she is “no longer gay” even though she is celibate, same-sex-attracted, and not attracted to men
- recalls that when she was the editor for a lesbian magazine, she opposed marriage for gay people and obstructed her colleagues’ support for marriage. She had felt that gay people should settle for second-class citizenship in the form of domestic partnership.
- accuses educators who are tolerant of gender variance in pupils of being “trapped in the same bondage” to Satan as the pupils supposedly are. She accuses “most” tolerant educators of being secretly homosexual and using their own heterosexual marriages, churches, and children as a cover to promote homosexuality. Cothran says “gays are gifted people” and have “overwhelmingly” entered the schools as educators and administrators. She believes that anti-bullying and pro-tolerance policies are enacted because school systems are controlled by homosexuals.
- claims that marriage is just a stepping stone for political activists to have sex “in the middle of the park with no clothes on, you know, that whole thing.”
- accuses married gay couples of causing Europe’s heterosexual couples to stop marrying
- advises listeners that the cure for homosexuality is to forget oneself and one’s own thought processes, blindly accept the Bible as absolute truth, and falsify scientific discussion of biological roots to sexual orientation — namely, by falsely claiming that the “gay (controlled) media” assert the existence of a gay gene.
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Peterson, the host, falsely states that the Alameda, Calif., school district voted to promote homosexuality in kindergarten through Grade 5. According to KTVU and Alameda C.A.R.E., the curriculum (and others like it) actually oppose bullying and teach students that different types of families exist; the curriculum does not teach students about sexual behavior.
Cothran claims to trust the Bible, but she does not cite any Bible verses to support her case. In fact, the most common “ex-gay” cures for homosexual orientation, reparative therapy and prayer, are offered nowhere in the Bible as cures for homosexual or bisexual orientation.
Hat tip: Good As You
“Amazing!” says the Rev. Jesse Lee Patterson. Yes, an amazing load of codswallop.
She is “ex-gay”, yet celibate. Well, I’m sitting in my office not having sex at the moment. So, based on her behavioral model of sexuality, I must be ex-gay. I guess that is until I go home tonight and meet up with my boyfriend.
I feel bad that people feel they must live in such denial and cognitive dissonance.
OMG, everyone at Truth Wins Out is ex-gay now.
The more I listen, the more bizarre it gets. According to Cothran, thousands of educators choose to stay closeted, skip Pride and get into fake heterosexual marriages, so they can secretly infiltrate the schools. That is quite the conspiracy she has cooked up! Would it not be have been easier for these people to simply have come out of the closet, considering there are many openly gay teachers?
Cothran also says that the real goal of the GLBT community is not equality – but the right to sleep with whomever we want. That is odd, considering gay individuals have already been exercising this option – even when there were repressive laws in place. Indeed, the 1970′s were a time of significantly more promiscuity. Her her reasoning is bizarre, if not entirely convoluted.
Cothran claims we want the “freedom to be a homosexual in a park with no clothes on.” I was not aware of any specific legislation that pushed for gay nudity in public parks. Perhaps, she can correct me and point to some evidence to back her outrageous claims. Furthermore, I am from Florida, where there are nude beaches. Most of the nudists are heterosexual men and women with families. And, they just wanted private space to sunbathe – not flash innocent bystanders.
After spewing such obvious lies, Cothran bemoans that what the world is missing is “absolute truth.” Based on this interview, she is a tragically flawed spokesperson for this principle.
Different Charlene. :-) Cothran edited Venus magazine, then converted it into a for-profit ex-gay business:
http://www.venusmagazine.org/about.html
She claims to be “licensed and ordained” but does not disclose by whom.
It’s hard to listen to this group sit here and stereotype “gays” as “gifted” people while there would be total outrage were they to be stereotyped in one of the many ways that African-Americans have been stereotyped over the years.
They long for the day that gays would stay in the closet—I can’t believe how oppressive and full of hate these people sound and probably are. Makes me sick to my stomach.
Hello folks. Oh, okay, I see someone let you know there are two Charlenes that you speak of at time.
Have a great evening.