Look what I found, Makes me Mad
I really don't understand people. I really don't. I was actually on gay.com and I found some
articles that made me mad.
http://www.gay.com/news/roundups/package.html?sernum=1131
This first one is about the "Day of Silence" that high schools across the US
are having in order to protest against the harassment of gay students. In
response to this, a senior at one of these High Schools, named Clint Armstrong
at Gull Lake HS, started an Anti-Day of Silence. He stated that
"There aren't days when heterosexuals get to parade around and show off their sexuality,".
He even sold shirts that said things like "Protesting against the Day of Silence 2005"
and "Keeping our school on the straight and narrow."
The conservative Alliance Defense Fund has organized a "Day of Truth" to take place on April 14 for "Christian students to take a stand for God's design of sexuality." As with Armstrong, the 11-year-old religious freedom organization claims that the counter protests are a matter of free speech.
"We want to have a level playing field in schools," said Joe Infranco, ADF's senior attorney. "[By hosting the Day of Silence] schools have told students to disregard moral and religious values. We don't think schools should take that role. In a free society, we have a marketplace of ideas."
As with Armstrong's protest, ADF is urging students to buy T-shirts protesting the Day of Silence. Participants will wear the T-shirts on April 14 with the saying "The Truth Can Not Be Silenced," and pass out cards to other students that express their condemnation of
homosexuality. The ADF also rejects any violent or confrontational behavior, Infranco said.
That is some complete bullshit. The ONLY thing, that the "Day of Silence" advocates is the protest
of harrassment of gay students. It in NO way endorses homosexuality itself. It stands to oppose
the mistreatment of those who ARE homosexual. Clint Armstrong and the ADF are advocating, by their
own actions, the right to bash, harass, and abuse homosexuals. They believe that gays should
be punished and that anyone or anything that states otherwise should be silenced.
These are the kind of people I hate. And when I take over the world, they shall be thrown into my concentration camps in Arizona. In fact I think I'll also start up the Trail of Tears, of sorts.
All those who are sent to my camps will have to WALK there, by gunpoint, from where ever they are.
Another article that enraged me was this.
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2005/06/16/1
This tells about an 'ex-gay' camp in Tennessee. Youths ranging from 15 to 18 are sent to this camp by their parents to 'turn them straight'. This camp is run by an organization oddly called "Love in Action."
For LIA, homosexuality is not an orientation but a set of behaviors that lies at the root of all dysfunction. And homosexual desires can supposedly be reprogrammed, through Refuge, at a cost of $2,000 for two weeks, or $4,000 for six weeks.
Sounds like a business made to take advantage of parents who are unaccepting of their teen's homosexuality and demand that they 'change'.
Patterned after teen drug and alcohol programs, Refuge minimizes contact with familiar things that it claims encourage homosexual behavior: no secular music, no more than 15 minutes per day behind a closed bathroom door, no contact with any practicing homosexuals, no masturbation, no secular music, and -- for reasons not explained -- no Calvin Klein underwear.
Sounds like a boot camp to me, with a religious theme.
Exodus International, an umbrella organization for nearly all regional "ex-gay" ministries, provides funding and marketing support for groups such as LIA, Lifeguard Ministries, New Hope Ministries and others. Although "reparative therapy" for homosexuality has been denounced by the mainstream psychological community as tantamount to abuse, "ex-gay" ministries offer hope to conflicted parents (usually devoutly religious and conservative) who are unwilling or unable to accept their kids' sexuality or seek traditional counseling.
Youth (and adults) who enter "ex-gay" programs may suffer from genuine self-destructive behaviors that go far beyond their struggle with same-sex attraction, said Wayne Besen, who wrote the book "Anything But Straight" about the "ex-gay" movement
This is bizarre to me. The American Psychiatric Association itself, which is NOT a Gay/Lesbian Organization in anyway, denounces such therapy and says that it is, in most cases, harmful to the
people that they try to 'reform'. And yet most of the conservative community pushes it.
"'Ex-gay' programs use the term 'gay lifestyle,' which to them includes unsafe sex [and] emotionally dependent relationships," Toscano said. "They know they can't really turn anyone straight, but they can make them not live the 'gay lifestyle.' They are purposely deceiving people."
Though relatively few people participate in 'ex-gay' programs, Drescher believes their influence goes far beyond changing individuals. "They are a pawn in the culture war," he said. "They support the idea that homosexuality can be changed, therefore it is a lifestyle and not worthy of civil rights legislation."
Lemme tell you something. Back when I was living with my parents in High School, I would have cut my own throat before I would have let them ship me off to one of these reform camps. That or just moved in with Mimi or my mom up in WV.
Italics are direct quotes from the gay.com articles.
articles that made me mad.
http://www.gay.com/news/roundups/package.html?sernum=1131
This first one is about the "Day of Silence" that high schools across the US
are having in order to protest against the harassment of gay students. In
response to this, a senior at one of these High Schools, named Clint Armstrong
at Gull Lake HS, started an Anti-Day of Silence. He stated that
"There aren't days when heterosexuals get to parade around and show off their sexuality,".
He even sold shirts that said things like "Protesting against the Day of Silence 2005"
and "Keeping our school on the straight and narrow."
The conservative Alliance Defense Fund has organized a "Day of Truth" to take place on April 14 for "Christian students to take a stand for God's design of sexuality." As with Armstrong, the 11-year-old religious freedom organization claims that the counter protests are a matter of free speech.
"We want to have a level playing field in schools," said Joe Infranco, ADF's senior attorney. "[By hosting the Day of Silence] schools have told students to disregard moral and religious values. We don't think schools should take that role. In a free society, we have a marketplace of ideas."
As with Armstrong's protest, ADF is urging students to buy T-shirts protesting the Day of Silence. Participants will wear the T-shirts on April 14 with the saying "The Truth Can Not Be Silenced," and pass out cards to other students that express their condemnation of
homosexuality. The ADF also rejects any violent or confrontational behavior, Infranco said.
That is some complete bullshit. The ONLY thing, that the "Day of Silence" advocates is the protest
of harrassment of gay students. It in NO way endorses homosexuality itself. It stands to oppose
the mistreatment of those who ARE homosexual. Clint Armstrong and the ADF are advocating, by their
own actions, the right to bash, harass, and abuse homosexuals. They believe that gays should
be punished and that anyone or anything that states otherwise should be silenced.
These are the kind of people I hate. And when I take over the world, they shall be thrown into my concentration camps in Arizona. In fact I think I'll also start up the Trail of Tears, of sorts.
All those who are sent to my camps will have to WALK there, by gunpoint, from where ever they are.
Another article that enraged me was this.
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2005/06/16/1
This tells about an 'ex-gay' camp in Tennessee. Youths ranging from 15 to 18 are sent to this camp by their parents to 'turn them straight'. This camp is run by an organization oddly called "Love in Action."
For LIA, homosexuality is not an orientation but a set of behaviors that lies at the root of all dysfunction. And homosexual desires can supposedly be reprogrammed, through Refuge, at a cost of $2,000 for two weeks, or $4,000 for six weeks.
Sounds like a business made to take advantage of parents who are unaccepting of their teen's homosexuality and demand that they 'change'.
Patterned after teen drug and alcohol programs, Refuge minimizes contact with familiar things that it claims encourage homosexual behavior: no secular music, no more than 15 minutes per day behind a closed bathroom door, no contact with any practicing homosexuals, no masturbation, no secular music, and -- for reasons not explained -- no Calvin Klein underwear.
Sounds like a boot camp to me, with a religious theme.
Exodus International, an umbrella organization for nearly all regional "ex-gay" ministries, provides funding and marketing support for groups such as LIA, Lifeguard Ministries, New Hope Ministries and others. Although "reparative therapy" for homosexuality has been denounced by the mainstream psychological community as tantamount to abuse, "ex-gay" ministries offer hope to conflicted parents (usually devoutly religious and conservative) who are unwilling or unable to accept their kids' sexuality or seek traditional counseling.
Youth (and adults) who enter "ex-gay" programs may suffer from genuine self-destructive behaviors that go far beyond their struggle with same-sex attraction, said Wayne Besen, who wrote the book "Anything But Straight" about the "ex-gay" movement
This is bizarre to me. The American Psychiatric Association itself, which is NOT a Gay/Lesbian Organization in anyway, denounces such therapy and says that it is, in most cases, harmful to the
people that they try to 'reform'. And yet most of the conservative community pushes it.
"'Ex-gay' programs use the term 'gay lifestyle,' which to them includes unsafe sex [and] emotionally dependent relationships," Toscano said. "They know they can't really turn anyone straight, but they can make them not live the 'gay lifestyle.' They are purposely deceiving people."
Though relatively few people participate in 'ex-gay' programs, Drescher believes their influence goes far beyond changing individuals. "They are a pawn in the culture war," he said. "They support the idea that homosexuality can be changed, therefore it is a lifestyle and not worthy of civil rights legislation."
Lemme tell you something. Back when I was living with my parents in High School, I would have cut my own throat before I would have let them ship me off to one of these reform camps. That or just moved in with Mimi or my mom up in WV.
Italics are direct quotes from the gay.com articles.