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Shocker: Am I Anti-Gay? ["Gays" malign "Gay"-friendly Pychology Today editor]
Psychology Today ^ | Jan/Feb 2003 | Robert Epstein

Posted on 01/29/2003 11:29:48 AM PST by Notwithstanding

Summary: You be the judge. A letter form the editor in chief.

... I bring these matters to your attention because of a threatening phone call I received a few weeks ago from a fellow psychologist. On page 78 of our last issue, PT ran a small ad for a book called A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality by Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., and his wife Linda. Nicolosi is a psychologist who specializes in trying to help unhappy gays become straight. Apparently feeling that this rather modest contribution to the literature on homosexuality wasn't getting enough attention, the psychologist, who identified herself as a lesbian activist, called me at home on a Saturday to tell me that PT should not have run such a heinous ad, that she was speaking for "thousands" of gays who were going to boycott PT, "and worse," that Dr. Nicolosi was a "bigot," that no gay person had ever successfully become straight, that homosexuality was entirely determined by genes, and that sexual conversion therapy had been condemned by the American Psychological Association. I told her that the editorial department at PT has no connection whatsoever with the advertising department, but she was unimpressed. She subsequently posted messages on the Internet urging people to harrass me at home (no one else ever did) and to send me complaint letters.

In all, I received about 120 letters, many of which exemplified a bad game of Telephone: Some people complained about an anti-gay "article" PT had published; others referred to an anti-gay book I had published and people who weren't subscribers said they were dropping their subscriptions. Several writers suggested I was a "Nazi" and a "bigot," and one compared me with the Taliban. A surprising number of letters asserted that gays have a right to be rude or abusive because they themselves have been abused. Most echoed the same points that my caller had made....

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To: JoshGray; lentulusgracchus; Polycarp; Clint N. Suhks; EdReform
This one I stayed out of until it was pretty much over. It's about an ugly topic: "I've now been introduced to a dark, intolerant, abusive side of the gay community ..." There is zero tolerance among such people for anyone who dares to disagree with them.

They can get very ugly and even violent. I can confirm it. I was the only conservative opinion columnist for a student newspaper at a large university. The rest of the editorial board ran the gamut from moderate left to flaming Marxist.

When I published an opinion column that criticized the local GLBT agitation tribe for its unbecoming tactics, I became a target. My tires were slashed. I replaced them. Then my car was torched.

My answering machine was filled with obscene messages of hatred. Many of them were threatening. My final project for a class, filed on the school computer system, was sabotaged.

People I had never seen before would walk up to me and scream threats and obscenities in my face.

As Peter LaBarbera said (posted on another thread linked below), "The real message is that Christians and others who defend traditional sexual morality are branded as unfit for public service. This is a warning shot: You will stay silent about homosexual activism or even support it if you aspire to any public position."

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321 posted on 02/09/2003 12:16:42 AM PST by Bryan
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To: Bryan
Every group has its extremists.
322 posted on 02/09/2003 6:51:04 AM PST by JoshGray
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To: Bryan
Bryan...

What happened to you is horrible. It is horrible when it happens to anyone.. but it happens to a lot of homosexuals as well. Your story is upsetting, but I don't think that it is an example of how "gays" as a group behave. Every group has a "dark, intolerant, abusive side." And "there is zero tolerance among such people for anyone who dares to disagree with them."

Sorry you had the experience you did. Those people should be arrested. Were any of them caught?

323 posted on 02/09/2003 2:44:28 PM PST by Qwerty
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To: Qwerty
Acts of vandalism like those are difficult to investigate. In those days, the university phone system wasn't amenable to tracing threatening phone calls. Walking up to someone and screaming threats and obscenities in his face could be prosecuted as disorderly conduct. But at the time, I felt that best thing to do would be to let them vent.
324 posted on 02/09/2003 10:32:34 PM PST by Bryan
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