Friday, June 10, 2005
We Will Break You
I want all of you to go read this now. Do it.
When I first came out of the closet, I was foolish and naive. I mean, really foolish and naive; I thought the brunt of anti-gay thought was in the past, a la institutionalized racism, and that anti-gay bigotry was limited to a few holdouts. I remember this idea falling to the ground dead after watching an MTV special on coming out, in which one of the subjects was a Mormon kid who was subjected to a "correctional" program at BYU. The "corrections" involved attaching electrodes to multiple parts of his body and giving him electrical shocks in conjunction with showing him gay porn. It got to the point where he tried to kill himself, like Zach talks about doing.
How the hell can anyone look at examples like that and support these programs? That's what I want to know.
UPDATE (6/11/05): I dare you, I fucking dare you, to tell me that this shit is healthy:
"I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no recovery."
This man actually thinks it's a good thing to tell kids that hey, if our bullshit program doesn't work for you, you might as well kill yourself; then maybe you'll have a hope in Hell. What a fucksponge.
When I first came out of the closet, I was foolish and naive. I mean, really foolish and naive; I thought the brunt of anti-gay thought was in the past, a la institutionalized racism, and that anti-gay bigotry was limited to a few holdouts. I remember this idea falling to the ground dead after watching an MTV special on coming out, in which one of the subjects was a Mormon kid who was subjected to a "correctional" program at BYU. The "corrections" involved attaching electrodes to multiple parts of his body and giving him electrical shocks in conjunction with showing him gay porn. It got to the point where he tried to kill himself, like Zach talks about doing.
How the hell can anyone look at examples like that and support these programs? That's what I want to know.
UPDATE (6/11/05): I dare you, I fucking dare you, to tell me that this shit is healthy:
"I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no recovery."
This man actually thinks it's a good thing to tell kids that hey, if our bullshit program doesn't work for you, you might as well kill yourself; then maybe you'll have a hope in Hell. What a fucksponge.
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I don't know where you find this stuff, but I am sure glad you do. Thanks for scarying me every day a little more.
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