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'Ex-Gays' Seek a Say in Schools
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 28, 2006 | Stephanie Simon

Posted on 05/28/2006 2:23:19 PM PDT by DBeers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Over the last decade, gay-rights activists have pushed programs to support gay and lesbian students in public schools. Their success is striking:

More than 3,000 Gay-Straight Alliance clubs meet across the country. Nearly half a million students take a vow of silence one day each spring in an annual event to support gay rights. California may soon require textbooks to feature the contributions of gays and lesbians throughout history.

Critics, mostly on the religious right, view all this as promoting the "homosexual lifestyle." Unable to stop it, they have turned to a new strategy: demanding equal time for their view in public schools and on college campuses.

Conservative Christians and Jews have teamed up with men and women who call themselves "ex-gay" to lobby — and even sue — for the right to tell teenagers that they can "heal" themselves of unwanted same-sex attractions.

They argue that schools have an obligation to balance gay-pride themes with the message that gay and lesbian students can go straight through "reparative therapy." In this view, homosexuality is not a fixed or inborn trait but a symptom of emotional distress — a disorder that can be cured.

Alan Chambers, a leading ex-gay activist, recalls how scared and depressed he felt when a high-school counselor advised him to deal with his attraction to other boys by accepting his homosexuality. He had no choice, she told him: He was gay. "It was very damaging," Chambers said. "I didn't want that. I hadn't chosen it."

His senior year, Chambers found his way to Exodus International, a network of groups that support ex-gays. He is now married to a woman, a father of two — and the president of Exodus.

~SNIP~

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To: Lucky Dog
Homosexuality is defined by behavior, i.e., unless one engages in sexual activity with a member of the same sex, he, or she, is not a homosexual. (The term sexual orientation is a diversionary tactic employed to rhetorically cloud the issue.)

Let me add my two cents. One could think of actual homosexuality being just as you defined it --in essence, a "homosexual" is a disordered heterosexual -disordered because he/she chose to or chooses to engage in the disordered activity of homosexual sex...

However, as to "sexual orientation" -think of "sexual orientation" as feelings... Those suffering the homosexual disorder claim to have feelings of predisposition cause unknown to engage in the disordered activity of homosexual sex...

If they do not act on those feelings then they simply suffer from the homosexual disorder and are not actually one time, practiced, and or severely addicted "homosexuals" ...

e.g. one may think of bowling without being a bowler AND one may be a bowler without being a professional bowler...

21 posted on 05/28/2006 6:44:46 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Lucky Dog

Gee, dumbass, can you even read an entire post?


22 posted on 05/28/2006 6:54:11 PM PDT by balrog666 (There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
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To: DBeers
If they do not act on those feelings then they simply suffer from the homosexual disorder and are not actually one time, practiced, and or severely addicted "homosexuals"...

Any human behavior (not driven by autonomic or instinctual responses) that is not voluntary is, by definition, a psychosis.

Therefore, homosexual behavior is either a voluntary choice or a psychosis.


One can “feel” extreme rage at another human being. However, unless, and until, the angry person acts there is no problem, i.e., no one is a murderer for just “feeling” like he, or she, wants to kill another.

Having “feelings” of lust does not make a man rapist unless, and until, he acts on these “feelings.” A woman can “feel” like she wants to sell her body, but unless, and until, she acts on these “feelings,” she is not a prostitute.

e.g. one may think of bowling without being a bowler AND one may be a bowler without being a professional bowler...

No one is a bowler, professional, amateur, or otherwise, without having first having bowled regardless how many times he, or she, may have thought about it.

Similarly, no person who has refused to engage in homosexual behavior is a homosexual regardless how many times he, or she, may have thought about it
23 posted on 05/28/2006 7:06:51 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: balrog666
Gee, dumbass, can you even read an entire post?

Your command of vocabulary is remarkably, and amazingly, deficient as is, apparently, your intellect, judging from you inability to express yourself without vulgarity.

If you can not engage in civil discussion and debate without such boorishness, I suggest you withdraw from the thread. If, on the other hand, you wish to apologize and continue with civility and a modicum of etiquette, the discussion may continue.
24 posted on 05/28/2006 7:18:18 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: DBeers

Arnold has said publically he will VETO SB 1437 which is the bill the LA TRASH is mentioning here with the history of gays in the textbooks. Guess they didn't get the message yet. Not surprised they're still pushing it.


25 posted on 05/28/2006 7:22:02 PM PDT by TatieBug
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To: Lucky Dog
Your command of vocabulary is remarkably, and amazingly, deficient as is, apparently, your intellect, judging from you inability to express yourself without vulgarity.

My post was direct and to the point. And you have yet to respond to it in a meaningful fashion.

If you can not engage in civil discussion and debate without such boorishness, I suggest you withdraw from the thread. If, on the other hand, you wish to apologize and continue with civility and a modicum of etiquette, the discussion may continue.

After you...

26 posted on 05/28/2006 7:30:54 PM PDT by balrog666 (There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
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To: Gordongekko909

I recall that Alan Turing was gay. During the War, the government accepted his service (out of necessity) despite his sexual orientation, but after the war he was rejected and consequently committed suicide.


27 posted on 05/28/2006 7:37:47 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: balrog666
After you...

Perhaps, if you could cite the vulgarity I employed in responding to you, I would apologize. Unless, and until, you can do so, I owe you no apology. On the other hand, your direct response was crude and offensive beyond any semblance of civility. My call for your apology remains on the table unaddressed.
28 posted on 05/28/2006 7:40:00 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: balrog666
Or consult the American Psychiatric Association.

Consult a bunch of pervert liberals who need therapy for their obsessions?

Homosexuality is either a birth defect, a mental illness or a choice... take your pick...

29 posted on 05/28/2006 7:44:03 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Lucky Dog
Is rape defined by a behavior? Is prostitution defined by a behavior? Is polygamy defined by a behavior? Are not all of these sexual behaviors? If any of the practitioners failed to engage in any of these behaviors, would they still be described by the term?

A pedophile is someone with an inappropriate sexual attraction toward children. A child molester is someone who engages in inappropriate sexual activities with children. The former is described by the attraction; the latter by the action.

30 posted on 05/28/2006 7:45:17 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Go read a book.

Oh, wait, make that a nonfiction book.

31 posted on 05/28/2006 7:49:18 PM PDT by balrog666 (There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
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To: supercat
A pedophile is someone with an inappropriate sexual attraction toward children.

Some experts disagree with your assessment/definition.

pedophilia -- Sexual fondness and activity of adults with children.pedophilia is a form of paraphilia (deviant sexual behaviour). ---The On-line Medical Dictionary

Definition of Pedophilia --Pedophilia: People with pedophilia have fantasies, urges or behaviors that involve illegal sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger). Pedophilic behavior includes undressing the child, encouraging the child to watch the abuser masturbate, touching or fondling the child's genitals and forcefully performing sexual acts on the child. Some pedophiles are sexually attracted to children only (exclusive pedophiles) and are not attracted to adults at all. Some pedophiles limit their activity to their own children or close relatives (incest), while others victimize other children. Predatory pedophiles may use force or threaten their victims if they disclose the abuse. Health care providers are legally bound to report such abuse of minors. ---MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
32 posted on 05/28/2006 7:55:21 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: Lucky Dog
Any human behavior (not driven by autonomic or instinctual responses) that is not voluntary is, by definition, a psychosis.

Therefore, homosexual behavior is either a voluntary choice or a psychosis.

You are soundly logical.

The very idea that human beings have individual rights not subject to the whims of a monarch, but subject to the laws of Yahweh, is directly from Moses.

Historically, this is proven over and over again with the successive conflicts between the forces of paganism and the Judaic culture. (This includes the idolatry of Marxist paganism.)

Today, "morals" are defined by a quasi-religious pagan philosophy based on esoteric hobgoblins. A greater number of "atheists" and "pagans" adopt the same hackneyed tenets of a false Judaic-Christian ideal (golden calf). They also subscribe to the Judaic fetishism of "sin," but will fight to their death in denial of it. Most of them are so wrapped up in their own polemics that they have become nothing more than pathetic anti-Christians with the same false hypocritical philosophy. They just slap a new label on it hoping nobody will notice - - they replace the idea of "avoiding sin" with "morals."

Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins. Transfiguration is a pantheon of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics and enemies will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.

Mosaic Law (of which the Ten Commandments is just a part) is the foundation of Western Civilization. Genesis is the primary focus of the Declaration of Independence, from where our Constitutional rights are derived. The Ten Commandments are the foundation of our judicial system.

Moses wrote Genesis. This is why such people will jump up and down screaming when the Ten Commandments are displayed or the Creationist idea of monogamy from the book of Genesis is introduced.

The latter (Genesis) also ruins the illogical and non-biological arguments of homosexual monogamy. In a secular sense, homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. It is in no way an anatomical function of the human organism, but a phantasmagoric creation from within the mentally disturbed human mind, a social psychosis, naked and on full exhibitionist display.

This is the whole crux of their attack on creationism - - they are really frustrated by Genesis, but cannot destroy the axiomatic state of procreant human biology, it does not fit their religious agenda.

Homosexual monogamy advocates seek ceremonious sanctification of their anatomical perversions and esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden, impoverished egos.

Neither of those will satisfy their universal dissatisfaction with mortality or connect them to something eternal. With pantheons of fantasies as their medium of infinitization, they still have nothing in them of reality, any more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream.

Homosexual deviancy is really a pagan practice (and a self-induced social psychosis) at war with the Judaic culture over what is written in the book of Genesis (1:27, 2:18).

This is exactly what the National Socialists were at war with... so, when someone uses the term "Gaystapo," they might not realize how close to the truth they really are.

Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.

Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...

Aleister Crowley, who openly supported the National Socialists, was affiliated with Ordo Templi Orientis, A.A. (Order of the Silver Star) and other such occult lodges all across Germany. Crowley engaged in all manner of deviancy, homoeroticism, sadomasochism and murder. Much of the occultism in National Socialism is derived directly from there. Crowley envisioned himself as the Great Beast (To Mega Therion), just as der Fuhrer made himself in that image. Hitler's life as a struggling, inept artist was where that association blossomed.

Crowley's creed, "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the Law," (which is actually from Francois Rabelais) and used by Neo-Pagan nutcases without attribution for obvious politically correct reasons, is with certainty no different than the National Socialist "will to power," or their ubermensch mentality.

It is also no accident Nietzsche's "over-man" and nihilist philosophy and resulting insanity from venereal disease closely mirrors the insanity of der Fuhrer.

These occult orders, sex and drug cults still survive today, as do the Neo-pagan, Neo-Nazi groups, black supremacist Rastafarian potheads, prison gangs and other related filth.

[Crowley occultism is also from where L. Ron Hubbard emerges with Scientology. Note the NAZI symbolism of that kooky cult of weirdos.]

Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is a social psychosis catering to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture...

33 posted on 05/28/2006 7:59:41 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Interesting post. Thanks for the effort.


34 posted on 05/28/2006 8:07:29 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: balrog666
balrog666” ??? Is that supposed to be a harrowing display of blasphemy, or are you really as ignorant as I suspect?

Aleister Crowley, who openly supported the National Socialists, was affiliated with Ordo Templi Orientis, A.A. (Order of the Silver Star) and other such occult lodges all across Germany. Crowley engaged in all manner of deviancy, homoeroticism, sadomasochism and murder. Much of the occultism in National Socialism is derived directly from there.

Like balrog 666, Crowley envisioned himself as the Great Beast (To Mega Therion), just as der Fuhrer made himself in that image. Hitler's life as a struggling, inept artist was where that association blossomed.

Crowley's creed, "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the Law," (which is actually from Francois Rabelais) and used by Neo-Pagan nutcases without attribution for obvious politically correct reasons, is with certainty no different than the National Socialist "will to power," or their ubermensch mentality.

It is also no accident Nietzsche's "over-man" and nihilist philosophy and resulting insanity from venereal disease closely mirrors the insanity of der Fuhrer.

These occult orders, sex and drug cults still survive today, as do the Neo-pagan, Neo-Nazi groups, black supremacist Rastafarian potheads, prison gangs and other related filth.

[Crowley occultism is also from where L. Ron Hubbard emerges with Scientology. Note the NAZI symbolism of that kooky cult of weirdos.]

35 posted on 05/28/2006 8:10:13 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Lucky Dog
In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates advanced argument that piety to many gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. Socrates exposed pagan esoteric sophistry.
36 posted on 05/28/2006 8:22:00 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: holdonnow

ping


37 posted on 05/28/2006 8:47:42 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Murtha, doing the job Marines wouldn't do... on Memorial Day weekend. s/)
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To: Lucky Dog

Filthy language can usually be attributed to trollishness (from an underground source).


38 posted on 05/28/2006 9:12:35 PM PDT by fwdude (If at first you don't succeed .......... form a committee and hire a consultant.)
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To: fwdude; Sir Francis Dashwood; balrog666
Gee, dumbass, can you even read an entire post? --- balrog666

Your command of vocabulary is remarkably, and amazingly, deficient as is, apparently, your intellect, judging from you inability to express yourself without vulgarity.

If you can not engage in civil discussion and debate without such boorishness, I suggest you withdraw from the thread. If, on the other hand, you wish to apologize and continue with civility and a modicum of etiquette, the discussion may continue.
--- Lucky Dog

Filthy language can usually be attributed to trollishness (from an underground source).---fwdude

It appears that balrog666 has taken my advice and withdrawn rather than apologize. No great loss, apparently.
39 posted on 05/29/2006 3:46:08 AM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: Lucky Dog

I would only disagree with you on one point...

I do not think civil discussion on this issue is possible at all... the enemy is among us here and within the Republican party... and they will run crying to a favorable moderator... we are in just as much a cultural war domestically as we are with Islam... this is war...

Peruse this one...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639872/posts


40 posted on 05/29/2006 7:45:26 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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