Gee, I wonder what it must be like to be an "Ex-Heterosexual"
By Jim Dallas
The Houston Press had a phenomenal piece on the Ex-Gay ministry Exodus International this week.
I bring this up because I see that the Exodus people are especially offended by the fact that Kerry casually mentioned the well-known and very-public fact that Mary Cheney was a lesbian.
I have some sympathy for the argument that some of the Exodus' converts weren't born gay, but instead had some sort of psychological trauma covering up their straight-ness.
Frankly, though, I think if that is really your target audience, you ought to call it "sexual abuse therapy" or "pyschological therapy", not "homosexual therapy." Because after all, what you're trying to cure is the disease (stemming from abuse or other trauma), not the symptom (pseudo-homosexuality).
Right? After all, we wouldn't want people thinking this is all just a thinly-veiled psychobabble/Biblebabble cover for rampant homophobia, and a vehicle to encourage self-hatred among gays and lesbians?
Right?
Posted by Jim Dallas at October 19, 2004 05:28 PM
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