Greg Quinlan
Posted on 07/28/2009 6:42:39 PM PDT by Maelstorm
For years Greg Quinlan juggled a double life, going to church, entering Bible College, chasing gay sex.
The tension nearly killed him, he said.
“I was torn,” he said. “I had to either come out of the closet or commit suicide. I was more afraid of facing God.”
So he dropped his faith and lived as an openly gay man who learned to lobby on behalf of gay and lesbian issues through his volunteer work for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). He was particularly enamored with the group’s black-tie fundraisers. The group, he said, was a refreshingly professional organization that seemed a world removed from the often-raucous scenes in gay bars.
“The women were in skirts and the men weren’t,” he said.
As a lobbyist, Quinlan said he liked to research “the enemy” and began to monitor evangelical television to keep abreast of their twisted moves to protect pro-family values. During one program, the host featured the testimonies of several former gays who had successfully left the lifestyle.
“I would have two wars raging inside of me,” he said. “I would wonder, ‘Oh, God, is it true? Can I get out of this?’”
Nearly two decades later, Quinlan is still campaigning, but his message is vastly different.
“The gay lifestyle is shallow, lust-filled and immature,” he said during a visit to San Diego for the National Education Association’s convention.
Now a member of the Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus, Quinlan is pushing for access to teachers in an effort to balance the union’s push for pro-homosexual issues, including same-sex marriage and gay-friendly curriculum. He and other Ex-Gay caucus members did so by working a booth at the NEA’s exhibit hall, a right they had to sue for several years back.
“What the HRC taught me to do,” he said, “I’m now doing for the Lord.”
As an HRC volunteer in the late ’80s, Quinlan said group members focused on moving their agenda forward by concentrating on several key arenas including establishing gay-affirming curriculum, seeking to allow homosexuals to openly serve in the U.S. military, legalizing gay-marriage and re-educating education.
Quinlan said numerous initiatives—targeting sex-ed and science curriculum, while also implementing protections designed at preventing bullying—have made great inroads in the public schools.
“One area where they have won, have had tremendous success, is in education,” he said, adding that each generation of students becomes more and more accepting of homosexuality. “We are in a demographic nightmare.”
Understanding nightmares Growing up as a young man with an abusive “Archie Bunker-type” father, Quinlan first found solace in his faith, describing a strong spiritual conversion at age 9.
“It was the real deal,” he said. “I felt the weight lift off of my shoulders.”
Instead of life improving at home, the father’s abuse toward him worsened. Eventually he filled his desperate need for affection at the hands of a young teen boy who introduced him to sex. Quinlan said he became a willing molestation victim.
“I was getting something I wasn’t getting at home, I was getting something I wasn’t getting at school, and I was getting something I wasn’t getting at church,” he said. “I was getting attention, I was getting affirmation, I was getting affection. Someone was touching me without hitting me. Someone was talking to me without screaming.”
Through the help of Christian spiritual leaders, Quinlan returned to his faith and began working on the issues of bitterness and unforgiveness that perverted his relationship with his father.
“That’s when the same-sex attractions faded,” he said. “That was the enemy’s hook in me.”
It was not, he said, an overnight healing and he held to the promises of Romans 12 by trying to renew his mind.
“There is pleasure in sin, for a season,” he said. “I had spent a long time contaminating it.”
Today he works with Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays and is a consultant for the New Jersey Family Policy Council.
While he bemoans the closed platform of the NEA, Quinlan places much of the blame for homosexuality advances in the public school system right at the feet of believing Christians.
“We’ve allowed this to happen,” he said. “There are so many Secret Service Christians who need to come out of the closet, but we also need to know how to argue and debate persuasively. This conspiracy and its wheel have been around for decades.”
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I wonder; could there be some vast left wing conspiracy preventing such? (/Sarcasm)
God bless this man - and may he continue to help pull others out of this self-destructive behaviour. It is the most wonderful thing to see someone saved from a life of sin...ANY sin.
Yes any sin. This is not the worse by any means. What makes it so horrible is the wall of silence and the intimidation.
And thank you for your efforts. I’ve often wondered, how about the folks in the Exodus International ministry who walk the walk. Popular thought is “oh, you’re born that way”, “CELEBRATE your homosexuality”, etc., yet many have apparently left the homosexual lifestyle through their ministry.
Focus on the Family used to have a fairly regular interview with some of the people involved. Good work IMO.
The homosexual activists are very powerful - extremely intimidating.
Just twenty years ago, most people my age would have scoffed at the notion of homosexuality being accepted as normal, let alone people marrying a member of the same sex.
It is stunning to see how political correctness completely molds minds. Goes to show how people who are not grounded in truth can easily be talked into anything.
Believing Christians have failed to set up alternative tuition-free Christian schools. Every child in the U.S. should have access to a tuition-free, private, and thoroughly Christian based K-12 education. If Harvard can have a 35 **BILLION** dollar endowment and universities across this nation can have similar endowments, Christian should be doing the same for Christian K-12 education.
Believing Christians have failed to organize to SHUT DOWN the government K-12 indoctrination centers. They are an abomination! Every one of these government K-12 “schools” completely conflicts with the First Amendment and freedom of conscience.
Believe Christians teach in government schools. They **willingly** ( for money) teach children a godless worldview. By their example and direct instruction they teach children that they can live without God. They teach children that Christians are hypocrites who will sell their principles for a paycheck.
Believing Christian teachers and their families sit in Christian churches and discourage their ministers from opening Christian schools. And...Believing Christian ministers are too timid to bite the hand that puts money in the collection plate.
Believing Christians send their children day after day into godless government schools, and then they wonder why the children learn to live without God.
Yep! That our nation is a cultural, political, and religious mess can be laid at the feet of Christians who cooperate with evil, and thousands upon thousands of Christian teachers cooperate with evil for a paycheck and pension.
I know one individual who was molested by his openly gay uncle and did become gay. I went to school with him and I know that he expressed normal interest in girls up until that event. Their is a conspiracy of silence. There are a lot of hurting people and what the sexual activist agenda is doing is trapping them so they will never receive help so that they will always be encouraged to affirm the behavior of their attacker. Not all are victims of that sort, some are just lost, lonely, awkward, and some are imprisoned by fetishes that go far beyond just homosexuality.
John 8:32 “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Great testimony showing the truth of God’s Word!
These are very good observations, but they seem to imply a solution. That is, Christians should be endowing their schools to pay for true, biblical worldview education.
However, didn’t you just ping me a couple days ago that the Gutenberg College in Eugene OR was “too late”?
Just checking. Maybe it is never “too late”.
You have that right and what is happening in increasing numbers of places is these type of kids are being funneled not just to homosexuality but to early sex in general.
Amen. It’s great to see such a success story of a sinner who has faced his sins and found the truth.
It is good to see because the message is ultimately about hope and change of a real fulfilling kind where as the Obamas of the world want us not to believe that we can be better instead they’d rather we made comfortable in our weaknesses.
Yes; true wisdom.
No matter what his experience is, it is his; it is not universal; not even universal among “gays”.
Not every boy/young man (majorities) with an absent, distant or abusive father, gets into same-sex intimate experience as a youth and becomes “gay” as an adult.
As real as those experiences were to him, they were not the totality of what “made” him gay; because majorities of males faced with the same parental experience do not become gay.
I feel for the young man and empathize with his early problems in life. My only point is that his parental problem should not be taken as a template for what “makes someone gay”.
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