By Ron Kemp
Don’t be too quick to jump on the Maryland bandwagon. Governor O’Malley may be pushing for the legalization of gay marriage here (and, it looks as if it has a real shot of passing), but then there’s madness like this: At Albert Einstein High School, a group that calls themselves PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) sent home a flyer with the students’ report card that basically tells its LGBT students that “you weren’t born that way” and, once again, “we can help you change.”
Their flyer is carefully worded as to not give the impression that it’s religiously-motivated. We know better. In the flyer, they allege that “every year, thousands of people make the decision” to no longer be LGBT. In an attempt to mock the LGBT community, they cite: “Formerly gay men and women are discriminated against simply because they dare to exist.” And, again, I’m completely ok with them having their opinions. That’s their right under our Constitution. However, to force-feed it to the students of Einstein represents a collapse in moral responsibility. At a time in their lives where they’re already struggling to figure out who they are and how they fit into society, at a time where some are definitely questioning their sexuality or, worse, beginning to feel confident with it, P-FOX has thrown a monkey wrench of uncertainty into the picture. Instead of doing things that will help these students grow and become confident, productive adults, they opted to send the message “if you’re LGBT, you’re defected. But, don’t worry, We can fix you!! It’s your choice.” Maybe, P-FOX needs to be reminded that just last month, the leader of Exodus (the largest ex-gay farce in this country), Alan Chambers, announced that no one changes their sexual orientation. He admitted that it was a farce. In his own words, “99.9″ of the people in his group didn’t become “ex-gay.” Another of the co-founders of Exodus, Michael Bussee, went as far as to write this very revealing, very honest letter of apology. Please take the time to read it.
What did happen, however, was there were suicides because of his program and the confusion it caused. There were people left with emotional damage after being forced to believe that they were defective in some way, that their natural orientation was wrong.
Groups like P-FOX are now sprouting up around the country even as the ex-founder of Exodus has made it clear that it was basically a 20-year scam that he was running. Infamous politician, Michele Bachmann, is married to a man who is making a mint off of one of those “ex-gay therapy” farces. And, now it’s here in my own backyard. I don’t like it.
Albert Einstein school officials, and the Montgomery County School Board made sure to distance themselves from this debacle with this disclaimer: “These materials were neither endorsed nor sponsored by the Board of Education of Montgomery County, the superintendent, or this school.” Smart move.
To contact P-FOX and voice your opinion, you can reach them on their website. Let them know that what they’re doing is wrong.
P-FOX, it’s ok to be sociopathic, we can help you change….
Just thinking about people like PFOX makes me mad. Walk up to the people who think they’re responsible adults and hand each of them a card that says this;
“Straight” is a choice. YOU know you’re gay, or bi.
We know you’re gay or bi, and we know you’re unhappy.
We won’t laugh at you, or hold you up to ridicule.
We won’t tell your friends, we’ll be discrete.
You can tell them whenever you think it’s time.
GAY IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE!
Just don’t be surprised if you get a 90% conversion rate. Or confession rate, whichever. People so delusional that they’d hand out fliers to children with these kind of lies on them usually have a deep-buried trauma of some kind. So it wouldn’t surprise me if anywhere from half to all of them start crying on the shoulder of whoever hands them the card.
But, just in case, have someone muscular there to back you up. Some of these “religious” folk hate because they think God says it’s okay to hate this group or that, and they have no sense of humor. I don’t want any injuries or worse on my conscience, okay?
I’ve got enough to atone for.
God help us all
I wonder just how loud people would start screaming if their children brought home a flier with their report cards that stated,
“Straight? We can help you become gay!
Help solve the world’s population problem, be more self-aware, more sensitive to the needs of others, and develop a keen fashion sense!
GAY IS THE WAY!!!
I’m betting that the parents responsible for the PFOX flier would show up at the school with shotguns in hand within minutes of reading THAT flier. As well as most of the other “Christian” parents, and pretty much all the other parents as well. But if PFOX can hand out fliers, why can’t the LGBT community hand out their own?
It’s the whole sensitivity thing. Unlike the lies that “conservatives” want others to believe, the LGBT community has enough problems without stirring up more. That’s why you don’t see things like my flier above circulating among students at schools like Albert Einstein High School. All the LGBT community wants is to be treated fairly, and otherwise left alone.
This is yet another thing that the “religious” groups have refused to understand. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech and the press doesn’t just pertain to them, it pertains to EVERYONE. So, any of you from Albert Einstein who want to use my proposed flier above, I give you my complete permission, free and clear, as long as it is not printed and sold for profit. If you want to make posters and sell them, contact me and we’ll work out a fair percentage.
God help us all.
I am really curious as to how many of these “Gay is a choice” morons are also climate deniers? Facts seem to lip past their pointy little heads…