Instead of working within the realm of reality and getting behind efforts to get every person who engages in sex to take the proper precautions to protect against STD’s like AIDS, syphilis, Matt Barber instead chooses to remain within his little bigoted bubble and condemn all gay people instead. This is nothing new. I’m not quoting the meat of his piece, because everything he writes is stupid. By his “logic,” the Christian Right ought to start an “ex-African” ministry, since their STD rates are through the roof. But at the end, he puts on the veneer of fake Christian compassion and says this:
Do you consider yourself “gay” or lesbian? As untold thousands of ex-gays will tell you, you don’t have to be. It’s my most sincere prayer that going forward you’ll choose Christ over sin: Life over death.
You think sexual “freedom” makes you happy? You should experience the true freedom that comes through abiding in He who is “the way, the truth and the life.”
That’s liberation.
There’s that “untold thousands” line again. It’s “untold,” because it doesn’t exist.
But I guess any who see through Matt’s lies and choose to embrace themselves rather than Christian Right propaganda are free to kill themselves, aren’t they, Matt?
People like Matt Barber want nothing more than to see the eradication of homosexuality, and by their words on some subjects and their silence on others, we can see that they’re not too concerned by which particular means are employed to get rid of us.
Barber wants very much for STD infection rates to go up, not down.
How else to explain why he supports abstinence-only education, or why he supports imprisonment and execution instead of disease prevention and treatment, or why he wants heterosexuals to pretend that they’re not suffering STDs at equally alarming rates?
I always love it when people use STD rates as a reason proving being gay is unhealthy (and as proof that God hates the gay). Lesbians have lower STD transmission rates than gay men or straight couples. Does that mean God hates gay men, feels so-so about heterosexual, but truly loves lesbians?
Can’t someone just finally catch him in a sling at some bathhouse once and for all so he’ll shut the hell up and disappear?
Lying douchebag.
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I think Barber finds satisfaction in the recently reported suicides. Those deaths demonstrate that their policy of “loving the homosexual” is working quite well.