Please check out the excellent article in today’s New York Times by Benedict Carey discussing Dr. Robert Spitzer’s retraction of his infamous 2001 “ex-gay” study. Note to fundies: Stop citing it before you embarrass yourselves further.
TWO in Today’s New York Times
2About the Author
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
I read this article – very great. That led me to the Exodus International site, which is…I guess “laughable” is the word? Jeffrey Wallace, some Grand Poohbah worker, recruiter, mind-alterer, whatever, writes to his 100 teenaged soldiers of gay-conversion, “God hates all sins…” God “hates”? I would estimate this is a brand new piece of data for the already-confused youth of this organization.
God is One Who hates certain things. I wonder if he “hates” that I’m not capitalizing the h’s in this sentence as I repeatedly refer to him – god, that is. (Is it a hated sin not to use the shift button on g’s and h’s?)
It’s incredible to me that a person of mr. wallace’s stature (oops, again with those disrespecting lowercase letters) in this organization would teach his impressionable followers that we possess the POWER to create hatred in god. It’s also “incredible” to me that organizations like this factory of disenchantment and discontent can sustain itself in a world of ever-growing acceptance for one another.
Incredible.
No…I was more accurate with “laughable”.
Good GOD. (Caps merely for emphasis, you understand.)
- Joe Dougherty
Great site you have here, by the way. I’ve bookmarked ya.