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There is no genetic test or procedure (experimental or otherwise) that can determine one's sexual orientation. When Michael Glatze ran YGA (Young Gay American) Magazine and claimed to be gay, the subscribers to his magazine and others believed him, as they took Glatze at his word. They believed his claim, they believed his testimony and they believed his declaration that he was gay.

But there are some people who are suddenly skeptical when anyone claims to be ex-gay. They don't believe the ex-gay claim, they don't believe the ex-gay testimony nor their declaration that they are ex-gay.

When somebody uses a certain standard to measure the credibility of what one group says, but then refuses to use the same standard to measure the credibility of what another group says—thereby ignoring the claims of the second group (ex-gays)--he should ask himself why he believes one group and not the other... This is a double standard.

1 posted on 11/18/2008 1:05:25 PM PST by scripter
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2 posted on 11/18/2008 1:05:56 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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Great article, thank you for finding and posting it!


3 posted on 11/18/2008 1:15:16 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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I can't marry another man and I'm just fine with that!

If the butt-lickers want to marry a woman, like a normal person, they have the same right as everyone else.

4 posted on 11/18/2008 1:16:12 PM PST by TexasCajun
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Be gay all you want but for the love of God stop getting in me and my kids face about it. Tolerance does not require my full endorsement along with a cheque in the form of tax breaks to boot.


5 posted on 11/18/2008 1:16:18 PM PST by iThinkBig
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Would you let your daugher marry an ex-gay?


6 posted on 11/18/2008 1:17:06 PM PST by GSWarrior
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“When Michael Glatze ran YGA (Young Gay American) Magazine and claimed to be gay, the subscribers to his magazine and others believed him, as they took Glatze at his word. ...But there are some people who are suddenly skeptical when anyone claims to be ex-gay. They don’t believe the ex-gay claim... This is a double standard.”

Yes, it is a double standard. I’m not saying there should be a double standard, but I can explain why there is. I think it is because there is an assumption that the pressure against being gay is so overwhelming in society, that no one would lie about this and falsely claim that he is gay. Conversely, in view of this same societal pressure, the assumption is that a lot of people who are gay will lie and say that they are not. When you turn these societal rules around, you can get comedy out of it, like the straight clothing designer in the show Ugly Betty, who acted like he was flaming to establish credibility in his profession.


8 posted on 11/18/2008 1:22:42 PM PST by Texan Tory
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Bttt


14 posted on 11/18/2008 2:58:31 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K (Don't blame Texas.. No more RINO's or Mavericks)
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With due deference to The SCOTUS, there can be no right to marry. I have no “right” to marry unless I also have authority to force some other human being into a union that they object to.

Now, if there’s some guy so weak in so many ways that it’s TRULY said, “No one will marry him.” does he have a “right” to marry?

One can only respond, “IF (read if)....he can find someone....yada, yada, yada.”

By using the word “if”, we have just made it conditional on what someone ELSE does. I suspect many have gone through life desiring to be married but unable to find a willing partner.

Anyone think the government should assign them, so these poor souls get to exercise their “right”?


17 posted on 11/19/2008 12:28:49 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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