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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?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brokebackmountain; exgays; homophobechristians; homosexualagenda; liesliesmorelies; nytimes; propaganda
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To: LWalk18
It has made over four times its cost ($14 million).

I agree that this movie has made a lot of money, but I wonder about that $14mm figure. Seems to me that they were using that when it first came out (no pun intended), but they have really stepped-up the advertising in recent weeks. Could they possibly have budgeted that?

61 posted on 02/10/2006 1:46:07 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: presidio9
Image hosted by Photobucket.com incurable??? naaa, simply shut off the oxygen supply or the blood supply, or both... cured.
62 posted on 02/10/2006 1:46:34 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: kjo

I agree with you on the fact that Christianity is under attack, but disagree on the fact that open worship will be dead in 50 years. I plan to still be kicking then.


63 posted on 02/10/2006 1:48:47 PM PST by TXBSAFH (Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
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To: newzjunkey

Would you let your daughter contract AIDS because you wanted to make ex-gays feel "welcome"? That is what can happen when an ex-gay falls off the wagon.


64 posted on 02/10/2006 1:49:04 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: presidio9
>>"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.<<

It is not surprising that the New York Times which cannot discern fact from fiction chooses to believe Hollywood which cannot discern normal from queer.

Muleteam1

65 posted on 02/10/2006 1:53:35 PM PST by Muleteam1
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To: x5452
According to Movieweb (http://www.movieweb.com/movies/boxoffice/weekly/

the total is a little greater than $56 m!
66 posted on 02/10/2006 1:55:35 PM PST by JLGALT (Get ready - Lock and Load!)
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To: bubman

As a NYer, I can see how someone in NY or SF (where I believe Savage is from) would think this is true. Obviously, it is not the case anywhere else.


67 posted on 02/10/2006 1:56:29 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: darkangel82

Why anyone would wilingly subject themselves to the NYT is beyond me.

I've always hated it. It doesn't even have funnies.

Nothing but a filthy leftist homosexual propaganda house organ.


68 posted on 02/10/2006 1:57:15 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: squarebarb

Science has finally solved that age-old question: Was Elton John born that way or did he choose.
Guys, the bad news is, if you pass this test you're a homo.
If you fail, you're normal.
(Sorry but no ladies. For some reason it only works for men.)

This is a scientific test, so give it your best shot.
http://www.gjk2.com/test/test.swf


69 posted on 02/10/2006 1:57:48 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: kjo
Make no mistake where this is going. In fifty years the open practice of Christianty will be dead.

Looks like everyone wants to be a victim these days, not just liberals.

70 posted on 02/10/2006 1:57:48 PM PST by cryptical
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To: KC_Conspirator
It's useless to deny it. People are seeing the film and not just some but lot of people given its rather small release (just over 600 screens) which has bloomed to far larger (now over 2000 screens) than the studio had anticipated. The film is nearing $100 million worldwide.

It's not on the level of Narnia's success but one is a PG family film drawn on a well known set of books with a large budget and major studio. The other is an R-rated art-house film about a ridiculed subject.

By various accounts (even by folks pre-disposed to like the subject matter) the film is boring and tedious like some other Ang Lee projects. Some like NBC Today's Show movie critic Gene Shalit have seen the film as involving a sexual predator rather than as a love story. While his review was quite justifiable by the film's content itself, he was attacked by the "gay mafia" and ultimately apologized for his characterization.

71 posted on 02/10/2006 2:00:41 PM PST by newzjunkey (In 2006: Reelect Arnold; Get GOP Elected in CA; Halt W's Amnesty for Illegals. Win in Iraq.)
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To: squarebarb
IMDB.com. Internet Movie Data Base. One of the best sites on the web if you like movies. I've spent hours there.
72 posted on 02/10/2006 2:01:16 PM PST by manwiththehands (Repeal the 17th Amendment. NOW.)
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To: sofaman

This story reminds me of you...


73 posted on 02/10/2006 2:01:56 PM PST by devane617 (An Alley-Cat mind is a terrible thing to waste)
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To: presidio9
I Do Exist
People Can Change
Research Shows Change is Real

A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
How Might Homosexuality Develop? Putting the Pieces Together

Homosexual Agenda Keyword Search
Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links

74 posted on 02/10/2006 2:02:44 PM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: RegulatorCountry
If there are no Christians, what will be the dominating religion in the world? Islam?! The gays may get what they want.
75 posted on 02/10/2006 2:04:46 PM PST by manwiththehands (Repeal the 17th Amendment. NOW.)
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To: manwiththehands

"If there are no Christians"

Won't happen. The current trend will not be allowed to continue unabated.


76 posted on 02/10/2006 2:06:33 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: presidio9
What are the actual sales on this tripe?

Domestic Total as of Feb. 9, 2006: $62,435,760 (Estimate)about half as much again(31M)for a total of about 93 M worldwide as of Feb. 9
-http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brokebackmountain.htm

I figure at about 7$ per ticket,that's about 9 million people,or about 3 % of the US population.That sounds about right.Sell it now!!!

77 posted on 02/10/2006 2:08:20 PM PST by hschliemann
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To: Thorin
Yes, he is a filthy pervert.

I thought that was the name of the author of those gross columns in the free newspapers. He has to be one of the most vile human beings God ever gave the breath of life to. The couple of columns that I've read of his, made me want to vomit.

78 posted on 02/10/2006 2:08:39 PM PST by appleharvey
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To: little jeremiah

That's why I never read it.


79 posted on 02/10/2006 2:10:34 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: LWalk18
Would you let your daughter contract AIDS because you wanted to make ex-gays feel "welcome"? That is what can happen when an ex-gay falls off the wagon.

That is what *could* happen just as it could happen if her husband were to go stray with her HIV+ best friend, visit a hooker or abuse IV drugs. Suppose it's your son who is the ex-gay; how do you approach that situation?

80 posted on 02/10/2006 2:10:45 PM PST by newzjunkey (In 2006: Reelect Arnold; Get GOP Elected in CA; Halt W's Amnesty for Illegals. Win in Iraq.)
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