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Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys (homosexuality is incurable, etc.)
The New York Times ^ | February 10, 2006 | DAN SAVAGE

Posted on 02/10/2006 1:14:33 PM PST by presidio9

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gay cowboys try, as best they can, to quit one another. They marry women, start families. But their wives are crushed when they realize their husbands don't, and can't, ever really love them. "Brokeback Mountain" makes clear that it would have been better for all concerned if Jack and Ennis had lived in a world where they could simply be together.

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Straight audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain" — that's troubling to evangelical Christians who have invested a decade and millions of dollars promoting the notion that gay men can be converted to heterosexuality, or become "ex-gay." It is, they insist, an ex-gay movement, although I've never met a gay man who was moved to join it.

This "movement" demands more from gay men than simply playing straight. Once a man can really pass as ex-gay — once he's got some Dockers, an expired gym membership and a bad haircut — he's supposed to become, in effect, an exgay missionary, reaching out to the hostile gay tribes in such inhospitable places as Chelsea and West Hollywood.

What should really trouble evangelicals, however, is this: even if every gay man became ex-gay tomorrow, there still wouldn't be an ex-lesbian tomboy out there for every ex-gay cowboy. Instead, millions of straight women would wake up one morning to discover that they had married a Jack or Ennis.

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Sometimes I wonder if evangelicals really believe that gay men can go straight. If they don't think Chad Allen can play straight convincingly for 108 minutes, do they honestly imagine that gay men who aren't actors can play straight for a lifetime? And if anyone reading this believes that gay men can actually become exgay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brokebackmountain; exgays; homophobechristians; homosexualagenda; liesliesmorelies; nytimes; propaganda
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To: presidio9
Straight audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain"

Straight liberals, no doubt.

21 posted on 02/10/2006 1:23:33 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: squarebarb
"Straight audiences are watching and loving Brokeback Mountain'.

Total BS. People are being cajoled into seeing it because of all the pro-gay press. The five films nominated for Best Picture (or really Best Portrayer of Lies and Filth) have the lowest total gross of any five films in 20 years. No one is seeing this movie.

22 posted on 02/10/2006 1:23:37 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: squarebarb
Straight liberal audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain".
23 posted on 02/10/2006 1:24:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: presidio9

This author is just hoping that his hunting lease will always be stocked with other self-abusers.


24 posted on 02/10/2006 1:24:16 PM PST by keithtoo (It's STILL not safe to vote Democrat)
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To: MineralMan; presidio9
It never ceases to amaze me how many clueless women I meet who date or marry an obviously gay fellow. You meet their "boyfriends"/husbands who make Liberace look like John Wayne and you are not surprised when they break up because she found out he was gay.

I guess there are people out there with no Gaydar.

25 posted on 02/10/2006 1:25:15 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I have skimmed over the IMDB message board for this movie. They watch it over and over, some going 15 times and more. And they are very rude to anyone to doesn't sing its praises, calling them homophobes, trolls, right-wing wackos, etc. automatically.


26 posted on 02/10/2006 1:25:38 PM PST by BonnieJ
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To: presidio9

Uh....that should read "gay SHEEP HERDERS!"


27 posted on 02/10/2006 1:25:51 PM PST by petro45acp (SUPPORT/BE YOUR LOCAL SHEEPDOG! ("On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" by Dave Grossman))
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To: presidio9
Dan Savage

Let's all sit and be lectured by this puke....

28 posted on 02/10/2006 1:26:04 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: GSWarrior

"Doesn't Dan Savage write sex columns in alternative weeklies?"

Yep.
Some of the columns would be unprintable in flyover country.


29 posted on 02/10/2006 1:26:11 PM PST by VOA
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To: presidio9

I think it's hilarious that now it's the homosexual community that adheres to the old "c*cks*cker rule -- s*ck one c*ck and you'll aways be a c*cks*cker." Mostly because they want everyone who's ever had a homosexual experience (however young and forced) to somehow "count" as gay and to think of themselves as irretrievably homosexual. Faugh! Stuff and Nonsense!


30 posted on 02/10/2006 1:26:20 PM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: squarebarb

I don't believe it either. Has anyone seen the numbers on the box office take for Brokeback Mountain?


31 posted on 02/10/2006 1:26:34 PM PST by no dems ("99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name." Steven Wright)
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To: presidio9
Straight audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain".......

Not where I live they aint!

32 posted on 02/10/2006 1:26:44 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Clemenza
I guess there are people out there with no Gaydar.

And yours is finely tuned, right?

33 posted on 02/10/2006 1:27:06 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: Blzbba; dmz

34 posted on 02/10/2006 1:27:39 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: BonnieJ

What's IMBD?


35 posted on 02/10/2006 1:28:32 PM PST by squarebarb
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To: presidio9

If ones sexual habits cannot be changed.... then why oh why do we allow all sex offenders i.e., rapists, child molestors etc. parole at all?

Or are we just playing PC games?


36 posted on 02/10/2006 1:28:51 PM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: squarebarb

Internet Movie Bondage Domination? (I think you mean IMDB Internet Movie Data Base)


37 posted on 02/10/2006 1:29:32 PM PST by x5452
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To: presidio9
Today, the tiny and stable percentage of men who are gay are free to live openly, and those who want to settle down and start families can do so without having to deceive some poor, unsuspecting woman.

Yup right on Dan that's what the gays want,nice stable families.

I wonder than way HIV and a host of other sexual transmitted diseases are on the rise in homosexuals?

Why is it Dan that these "settling down" types have hundreds of partners in a given year?

Tell me Dan, why does the average homosexual only live to the rip old of age of 50?

Why don't you write a column on the destructive behavior of homosexuals, instead of this filthy propaganda?

38 posted on 02/10/2006 1:29:38 PM PST by Angus MacGregor (Wars are fought in the will...)
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To: squarebarb

It's the movie site run by Yahoo, International Movie Data Base. Quite interesting source actually!


39 posted on 02/10/2006 1:30:03 PM PST by BonnieJ
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To: presidio9
once he's got some Dockers, an expired gym membership and a bad haircut

How's that for TOLERANCE?

Instead, millions of straight women would wake up one morning to discover that they had married a Jack or Ennis.

Ooooh, so when gay guys stay gay, that's an act of generosity to women, right? OK...

Obviously, some witty, bitchy gay guy wrote this...

40 posted on 02/10/2006 1:30:10 PM PST by gaijin
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