“Deeply held religious beliefs” my arse.

Leviticus 20:13 “If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.”

Leviticus 11:9-12 “These you may eat of all that are in the water… [but,] Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be an abomination to you.”

"Ex-gay" Therapist Claims "Sensitive temperament" is Fundamental Cause of Homosexuality

(Reposted from Ex-Gay Watch)
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And then goes on to bash gay activists as scheming thugs.

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Anti-gay/exgay therapist, Christopher Doyle of The International Healing Foundation, recently penned an op-ed in the Christian post.

These feelings [same-sex attractions (SSA)] are the result of many factors, mostly environmental and familial, mixed-in with one genetic factor, a sensitive temperament. [emphasis added]

Anti-gay/ex-gay activists often claim “there’s no gay gene” to support their “not born gay” meme. For Christopher Doyle, sensitivity and empathy are not only the cause of homosexuality, but a genetically-based one at that.

In twenty-three years, we have found that 99 percent of our clients who experience homosexual feelings have very sensitive temperaments. … This is what I believe to be the foundation for the development of SSA…

Using that logic, teaching them how to be heartless monsters would cause them to experience heterosexual feelings.

And that’s the end of that theory, let the bashing begin…

He continues with the clichéd assertion that we equality-agenda driven, pro-gay activists are all mindlessly following Kirk and Madsen’s “homosexual manifesto,” After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s. (You know, the one we all carry around in our back pockets.)

This landmark book blueprinted how to indoctrinate the public into the innate-immutability myth of homosexuality – that people are born this way and cannot change. … Their biggest problem, however, in achieving all their goals, is the advent of the former homosexual, or ex-gay. Because if homosexuals can change, the whole foundation of ‘born this way’ tumbles like a stack of cards.

We and our “powerful” influence wielding organizations …ignore, defame, or disqualify [gay to straight] research for some reason.” Because it is “…biased, or fatally flawed for whatever reason.” [emphasis added]

He then goes on to tout a thoroughy debunked anti-gay-parenting study to make his point.

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The second tactic is to paint SSA persons who seek sexual orientation change as victims by their counselors.

So, life-maimed survivors of “ex-gay” therapy, like some at Beyond Ex-Gay and a myriad of those elsewhere are no more than pawns in our political ploy to undermine the ex-gay movement?

They are now recruiting clients who are unable to achieve sexual orientation change to sue their former therapists in the name of consumer fraud…

Unable to change, you say?

The third and final method is to attack former homosexuals who have come public with their stories of change.

That “attack” is well deserved when so-called “ex-gay” persons like, Mr. Doyle, use the word “change,” ambiguously, to imply that euphemisms like “ex-gay,” “formerly homosexual” and “post-gay” mean the equivalent of heterosexual.

His marriage, children and not having “relapsed in eight and a half years” in no way prove or even indicate that same-sex orientation can be “changed” — across the board — to an opposite-sex orientation.

Further, There are PLENTY of gays and lesbians who are married with children who have never had sex or a relationship with a member of the same gender.

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You can read his delusional perception that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is waging a “hate campaign” on the ex-gay counter-movement here, and Wayne Besen’s (of Truth Wins Out) scathing rebuttal to it here.

SPLC on conversion therapy:

 

"God hates fags" church protesters scared off by pro-gay counter protesters.

Via, Advocat.com:

The Westboro Effect Triggers Embarrassing Counter-Protest
Westboro Baptist Church planed a protest today outside a Santa Monica high school but quickly retreated.
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From the moving video:
"On February 25^th, 2013, The Westboro Baptist Church, decided to pay Santa Monica High School a visit…

And we gave them a Santa Monica Welcome."

 
As one commenter one Facebook put it: “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done.”

The Brains Behind The National Organization for Marriage

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) spends millions upon millions to portray same-sex marriage (and parenting) as harmful to ALL children, economically devastating, and tantamount to polygamy -- to name just a few of their “disagreements.”

*Note that they use a dinosaur to depict themselves asking the question.

In other words, tolerate my intolerance.

Exodus International’s New Policy on Gay Marriage: We Don’t Have One.

Question of the Week -- Gay Marriage?

Full transcript below.


 

Transcript:

Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International:

Each week we get a number of important questions that come into our office. This week, the important question we decided to answer is, does Exodus International have a policy on gay marriage? And the answer is, no, we don’t.

[Quite the policy position to no longer take.]

If you’ll remember, a number of years ago, we were involved in public policy. About five years ago, we decided that that was a major distraction for us, frankly, at Exodus international, for a number of reasons.
 
First and foremost, we found the amount of energy and money being spent to fight against same-sex marriage was a poor comparison to the money and the time and the energy that was being spent serving people in need. Often times we’ve said that we have an angry and bitter gay rights movement because we in the church have created it.
 
At Exodus International we don’t want to be a part of a stigmatizing or divisive debate. We want to be about an ongoing conversation with our neighbors. Whether our neighbors agree with us or not isn’t important, the fact of the matter is, the relationship with people is. That’s what Jesus has called us to do at Exodus International -- to be a part of a long conversation, not a raging debate.
 
I hope you as believers will follow that lead, realizing that it is more important for us to be in people’s lives. To live our faith and to share our lives with others. That’s what we’re about at Exodus International.

I sense some coded language in a few things he said there.

does Exodus International have a policy on gay marriage? And the answer is, no, we don’t.

Sounds benign enough, until you take into consideration their past policy positions on the subject, in addition to the thoroughly dehumanizing contents contained in the link above.
Alan Chambers’ personal position on California’s Proposition 8:

I’m so grateful that back in 1990 and 1991 that [gay marriage] wasn’t something that stood in my way in coming to Christ in the way that he had me come to him. If that had been an option for me, I certainly would have chosen it...

As an organization (from the video):

At Exodus International we don’t want to be a part of a stigmatizing or divisive debate. We want to be about an ongoing conversation with our neighbors. Whether our neighbors agree with us or not isn’t important, the fact of the matter is, the relationship with people is. That’s what Jesus has called us to do at Exodus International -- to be a part of a long conversation, not a raging debate.

I maybe extrapolating too much here, but an “ongoing” and “long” conversation with neighbors who may disagree with your religious beliefs on the matter of marriage equality sounds more like a manipulative end game of conversion. Leading, of course, to an opening to convince them of the sinfulness of homosexuality, and by extension, same-sex marriage.

The terms “ex-gay,” “post-gay,” “formerly homosexual” etc., are in themselves an implication that one can choose to no longer have same-gender attractions, thereby upsiding the issue of same-sex marriage as being not a matter of equality, but one of irrelevance at best and a threat to the concept of fully and legally recognizing our love for our partners as being on par with that of heterosexual couples.

And lest we forget who the true victims are in all this...

Exodus may no longer publicly excoriate same-sex marriage in their rhetoric or on the current version of their website, but to me at least, it smacks of underhanded dog-whistle politics aimed at their members and supporters to continue spreading the word (just make sure to do it on the down-low).

And to cap it off, for an organization that bases it’s anti-gay beliefs on the Bible, not having a position on the subject is patently unbiblical:

God, via Revelation 3:15-16

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Personally, I don’t think Alan Chambers is that dog-whistle devious or clever, but no matter, a proclaimed non-policy on the issue opens wide a sea of nefarious interpretation for those that are.

"Senator Elizabeth Warren EMBARRASSES Bank Regulators At First Hearing!"

Female Truthers eXposing NWO

She tempers the sting of the loss of Ted Kennedy. Same seat, different liberal lion, but a softer acid tongue.

On a sadder note, God I miss him.

The anti-regulation of guns rebuttal

“If you are going to out law guns,”

-Guns designed to massacre.

“then why not cars, planes, knives, anything else that has taken a life.”

-Because guns are not only made specifically to kill, but to do so in the easiest most efficient way possible.

“It’s not the item that kills, it’s the idiot using it.”

-Unlike “items,” “idiocy” can’t be regulated, banned, necessarily measured, agreed upon or foretold.

Further, if your argument against gun regulation is that “criminals will find a way to get their hands on them anyway,” you may as well say that if someone want’s to break into your house they’ll find a way, so why even bother lock your doors?

And to take it to it’s extreme, if they’re after your guns they’ll find a them, so why bother hiding or even owning one?
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Most of we tree-hugging commie pinko liberals aren’t against guns per se, but we are against idiotic arguments.