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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: newzjunkey
I have not seen another movie get so much free press than any other film since "The Last Temptation of Christ", which was a total bomb. Without this free, constant, press drumbeat to see it, no one would waste their time on this film. Narnia OTOH was ridiculed by certain parts of the press (Polly Toynbee, etc.) and did not have even a smidgeon of the exposure this crap has. For the most part, from what I have heard, this is a bore and mediocre movie that is getting fast tracked by the Hollywood gay mafia who want to push their deviant agenda.

By contrast 20 years ago, "Platoon" was the highest grossing movie at $140 million, which was 1986 dollars.

81 posted on 02/10/2006 2:12:52 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: kjo; All
Did you see this story from yesterday (2nd Circuit Court decision): Federal court allows schools' Jewish and Muslim symbols, bans Christian nativity
82 posted on 02/10/2006 2:15:47 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: fzx12345

that is music to my eyes


83 posted on 02/10/2006 2:32:45 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: dmz

Good one. Gee, I wonder why he is not married yet. Must be looking for the right one.


84 posted on 02/10/2006 2:36:06 PM PST by freeplancer
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To: kjo; RegulatorCountry

you guys are far too generous with your timeline, IMO. at the rate things are going, it would be 20-35 years.


85 posted on 02/10/2006 2:36:39 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: presidio9

I could never marry an ex-gay man. the thought of what he used to do would gag me constantly.


86 posted on 02/10/2006 2:37:26 PM PST by knak (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing)
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To: x5452

I dunno, but Mark Steyn said they opened at 453 more theatres after the AA nominations, and sales fell 13%.


87 posted on 02/10/2006 2:40:11 PM PST by Flavius Josephus (Enemy Idealogies: Pacifism, Liberalism, and Feminism, Islamic Supremacism)
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To: sgtbono2002

Tony Snow has been using "Brokebackin'" as a euphemism for gay sheep herders knockin' farts.


88 posted on 02/10/2006 2:41:22 PM PST by Flavius Josephus (Enemy Idealogies: Pacifism, Liberalism, and Feminism, Islamic Supremacism)
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To: freeplancer

Troy Aikman IS married. That's his wife in post 34.


89 posted on 02/10/2006 2:44:55 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: tumblindice

Try as I might; flunked it every single time. Curiously; my wife knew always knew where the ball was. Hmmmm...


90 posted on 02/10/2006 2:54:19 PM PST by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Unless we're all "raptured".
91 posted on 02/10/2006 3:01:12 PM PST by manwiththehands (Repeal the 17th Amendment. NOW.)
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To: presidio9
article: "..Straight audiences are watching and loving Brokeback Mountain'..."

Four words: Show Me the Money!

92 posted on 02/10/2006 3:06:06 PM PST by right-wingin_It
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To: squarebarb

The problem w/ this movie (okay, one of probably many) is that even straight men who aren't opposed to gay men doing what is it is they as long as it doesn't concern them, don't want to watch gay men doing what ever it is that they do.


93 posted on 02/10/2006 3:08:08 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: tumblindice

Sigh!!

I'm old enough to remember when Elton John wasn't (openly) gay!


94 posted on 02/10/2006 3:11:02 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: squarebarb

"Straight audiences are watching and loving Brokeback Mountain".

This "straight audience" would not spend my hard earned money to even go see it.


95 posted on 02/10/2006 3:12:29 PM PST by maxwellp
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To: presidio9

A very long time ago, there was an online talk radio station called Talkspot. It was mostly conservative hosts like James Golden, however there was one liberal hostess, Erin Hart, who had the author of this article on. He proceeded to say, without an evidence, that conservatives actually had more perverted sex lives than liberals. Given how unlikely it is that a conservative would give such an obvious left wing bigot the time of day, we can treat any statement he makes as being a lie until proven otherwise.

Regards, Ivan


96 posted on 02/10/2006 3:14:27 PM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: presidio9

My bad.


97 posted on 02/10/2006 3:21:29 PM PST by freeplancer
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To: darkangel82

I knew you weren't a slummer!


98 posted on 02/10/2006 3:42:14 PM PST by little jeremiah
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They're milking the "bareback" movie for all its worth.

99 posted on 02/10/2006 3:54:07 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K ("Ye shall know them by their fruits" ;-))
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To: presidio9
Straight GAY audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain

There, fixed.

100 posted on 02/10/2006 4:22:47 PM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA)))
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