tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676682519255365705.post4327873477395634556..comments2024-02-20T21:59:57.147-08:00Comments on Independent Bloggers' Alliance: How the Religious Right uses the "ex-gay" movementRenee in Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741974339127525003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5676682519255365705.post-33152269280379145582007-03-30T22:07:00.000-07:002007-03-30T22:07:00.000-07:00Anything to cause more damage to gay people. This...Anything to cause more damage to gay people. This "cure" stuff is truly the biggest pile of crap I have ever seen. First of all there is nothing to be cured of, as most sane people know. Secondly, during my many years of association with gay and lesbian communities of every description in every part of this country, I have run across a few of those "cured" folks. It ain't true, any more than it was true all the years that I pretended to be straight.<BR/><BR/>If your determination is strong enough, if you are stubborn enough, you can certainly act the part you think will be most acceptable. But every "cured" gay man I ran into was still gay, but now he just was gay in hiding and on the side. . .outside of his marriage. Big progressive step forward.<BR/><BR/>Most of the "former" lesbians I ran into were still lesbians, still attracted to women but playing the wifely role and not necessarily acting on their attractions to women, but still lesbians. Now they were just "acceptable" in society and church because they were "cured."<BR/><BR/>None of these "cured" folks were as happy as they pretended to be.<BR/><BR/>Very sad. Very sad indeed.<BR/><BR/>ShirlShirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821335893587681812noreply@blogger.com