I just discovered yet another “ex-gay” website in Florida, Shasta Ministries, that aims to help fundamentalist Christians in “evangelizing to the gay community.”
Anyway, here is the latest advice on how the fundies plan to seduce you with their phony version of love. They want to put their mitts on you (or maybe fondle??):
One of the best things you can give them in physical, non-sexual touch Part of the issue of homosexuality is having not learned how to completely relate to people of the same gender in a non-sexual way. Most of the physical encounters they have with the same sex are romantic or sexual. For you to simply hug them and put your arm around them as a brother or sister in Christ, you will help them begin to mend one of the biggest holes in their life. You do not even need to tell “I am doing this because you need to mend a part of your childhood” or any crap like that. Simply implement this as a friend so that they can see that they do not need to be sexual with the same-gender to get fulfillment.
Give me a break. LGBT people are no more in need of a non-sexual hug than anyone else. This is just complete garbage disguised as science from quack therapists. I grew up with a very affectionate family. So have most LGBT people that I know.
Here is a stat for the fundies that want to reach out and touch you: A gay child that is rejected by his or her family is 8 times more likely to attempt suicide. 6 times more likely to be depressed and 3 times more likely to abuse drugs.
That’s right fundies, you are the problem, not the solution. It seems the only LGBT people that need your creepy hugs are your own damn children that you have rejected. Now, go hug them and get your hands off me.
Seriously, where do they come up with such ridiculous ideas?
r these people for real? i have many many many many many gay male friends that I have not had sex with….come on give me a f**k’n break! do they think that all gays are attracted to all same-sex people…hell no! Crazy Crazy Crazy people!
I recall going to a N.O.M website and commenting on a topic they had posted. One of the “N.O.M ies” then replied that I must be unhappy being gay or else I wouldn’t be on their website commenting. I got a giggle out of this so I replied that I was far from unhappy and that the only reason gay and lesbians are unhappy is because of people like him trying to dictate how to live their lives. Shut him up in a hurry!
I’d like to say that these guys aren’t for real. Unfortunately they are. This is just more of their stupid, garbage science. This is just ridiculous. I hug men besides my husband and there is nothing sexual about it. Idiots.
I wish Webster would take the fun out of fundamentalists. I guess at one time I thought they were fun to watch, but now they are mostly just depressing.
Minus the fun, we would be left with damentalists, and then damentalism could be considered a technical term for a serious mental disorder.
I think I learned how to have non-sexual contact with other men just fine thanks to having only male siblings. Imbeciles.
It always amazes me and has for years how such deep biblical beliefs can warp a mind when twisted to support whatever their particular desires are. Worse, the people that donate time and money to the “leaders” are truly like the sheep in the Bible only in the way wrong direction. Mind your own f*****g business, please.
Did they also go into the cannibalism thing? Because that was one of the favorite things I learned when Ex-Gay.
If this “ex-gay” nonsense were true, it would be impossible for any gay man anywhere, anyplace, at any time in history to be hugged by a heterosexual male and not get turned on. Which as we all know is not true–we all see heterosexual men everyday who do NOT turn us on. In fact, I bet we see many more heterosexual men who do not do a thing for us than ones who do! FAIL!
Totally ridiculous. I hug my bandmates all the time, the straight ones and the gay ones. It’s how we say hello and goodbye in my band – a metal band, I might add.
I also hug plenty of my friends and acquaintances, as many of them straight, gay, bi, omni, cis, trans, queer, or any combination of the above. And I haven’t exactly infected anyone with my rampant lesbianism nor with some contagious transgender disease. If what they are offering actually works on their own flock, then perhaps they have some other issues to work out first.
The other obvious point is that gays also hug (and kiss) our women friends and it doesn’t arouse us nor turn us into heteros–and the same goes for lesbians with male friends. When I was in college, I had a lesbian friend who used to sit on my lap sometimes at parties (due to insufficient seats) and it never made either one of us straight nor ‘excited’. Are these fundos really that stupid?! This goes beyond ignorance (lack of knowledge) to sheer moronitude. ;)
It seems like a slightly less creepy variation on the “hug therapy” offered by wackjob “therapist” Richard Coen (uncertain of correct spelling).