Preparing for the ex-gays

baywindows.com ^ | October 27 | Ethan Jacobs

[darkangel82]

Protestors have been a fixture from day one for Love Won Out, a traveling ex-gay conference that touches down in Boston Oct. 29. Most of the previous 34 Love Won Out conferences have been targeted by LGBT activists, but when the ex-gay confab comes to Boston it will be the first time the event has been confronted by an anti-war protest.

Mark Snyder, founder of QueerToday.com, a left-wing LGBT youth activist group, is organizing what will likely be the largest group of protestors of Love Won Out. He said QueerToday.com has signed on to take part in the anti-war march and rally that will be held the day of the conference on Boston Common, and QueerToday.com has convinced the organizers of the anti-war event, a group of activists calling itself the Oct. 29 Coalition, to reciprocate by protesting Love Won Out that same day.

[Liberty1970]

I guess it's cheaper than the rent-a-protestor approach...well, actually it's a variation of the same. Glad they are helping to spread the word about the farce that homosexuality is unchangeable though, by the controversy the protests stir up. :-)

[TenaciousZ]

This conference and protest already happened, actually. It didn't go well. So much for the Left's sacrament of "choice."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514395/posts

[Unam Sanctam]

Gay activist and anti-war protesters share a desire to deny individuals freedom of thought, conscience, religion and action in attending the ex-gay conference.

[darkangel82]

I didn't look at the date before I posted it, sorry. Maybe the thread should just be pulled.

[BillF]

In effect: "We'll attend your protest, if you promise to attend ours."

[BillF]

Unless the article has been posted before, the thread should not be pulled.

The article is useful in that it explains how the left operates, how they get large groups of people to their events.

[TenaciousZ]

Agreed; I'm all for leaving it up.

[tuesday afternoon]

And in past stops the conference has garnered positive press coverage; the Seattle Times headlined an article on the conference this past June "Love Won Out event emphasizes having compassion for gay people while also believing that they can change," and the article played up messages from speakers at the conference who urged compassion for LGBT people. Last February the Houston Chronicle previewed Love Won Out with a relatively sympathetic article that relegated criticism of the conference by LGBT activists to the tail end of the story.

Considering the source, I'm not so sure I should take this too literally. If they are getting some positive newspress, I'm amazed. I didn't see any MSM articles on the Boston Love Won Out conference.