Posted on 10/14/2017 7:21:01 AM PDT by Ennis85
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, hosted by the far-right Christian organization The Family Research Council.
The convention also featured an exhibit on gay conversion therapy, which seeks to navigate homosexuals and their family members from an anti-gay perspective.
The Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) organization, which was founded in 1998 "to be an alternative to the misinformed gay family groups which insist that parents can only prove their love for their gay child if they support gay rights and affirm their child's self-proclaimed gay identity," distributed a number of pamphlets and literature about guiding families on what do when they learn their child is gay. The pamphlets include two descriptions of the types of homosexuals: "the struggler" and "the seeker."
The struggler, PFOX says, is "someone wrestling with unwanted feelings of sexual attraction for the same-sex."
"This person is struggling to understand what it all means, but often feels that no one will understand them or their struggle," a pamphlet read.
The seeker is "someone who has been, or currently, on the journey of overcoming unwanted same-sex attraction."
"They are the 'ex-gay' — the person who at one time perhaps publicly identified as gay, but made a decision to change their life," it read.
At the PFOX booth, volunteers were also distributing small buttons that read "Ex-Gay Is OK!" in Comic Sans font.
Other items distributed included pamphlets and guidance on dealing with being transgender, citing one individual who "overcame" his transgenderism and converted back to being a man after having transitioned to being a woman.
"Through fundraising efforts, PFOX raised enough money for Darryl to reclaim his masculinity by undergoing numerous surgeries to reverse his appearance as female," the pamphlet read.
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Perticone needs a petticoat, sounds like. Knickers in a wad over ex-gay. Likes portraying things as extremes, just another drama queen.
‘Far-right’ describes both sets of my grandparents - regular, working class people, and Christians. I miss their America.
“. . .butt hurt. . . .”
LOL!
Well played!
bump
God bless him - and you. We are in the midst of a ferocious spiritual battle!
Bravo! Post of the day! God bless you!
Rosaria Butterfield.
The ability and desire to change exists.
Josh Barro also writes for Business Insider — gay, atheist, “married” to former Democratic male official.
Comic Sans font: using it is a well-known design crime; slipping that unnecessary-to-the-story tidbit in was 100% slam. As in, “Comic Sans is lame, therefore whoever uses that font is lame.”
Thank you for you kind affirmation! :-)
And .... ?
What the Helvetica are we talking about? :-)
I’m partial to Rockwell. Comic Sans is so “yesterday”. Rockwell is an ink hog, though.
It is an indisputable fact that many gays have left their former lifestyle and started life anew as active heterosexuals. It is not - as critics claim - a “myth” that this happens. The fact that therapy doesn’t always work, or is sometimes mishandled, is no more reason to ban it than there would be to ban other forms of therapy and counseling - drug, alcohol, marital, gambling, etcetera - that don’t always work.
You could also have pointed put that all of those other forms of therapy - which no one questions - also have high rates of failure, but no one uses that as an excuse to ban them.
That is also true, but at least one TRIES!
(((Or is ALLOWED to try)))
And the problem is?
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