Strictly, I’m in Hatteras and ignoring e-mails and the RSS-feeds, but this remark by Michael Hamar shouldn’t be overlooked.
The Christofascists go to great lengths to continue to foist the “ex-gay” myth and “change” myth on the public at large, not to mention those unfortunate enough to have been raised in their psychologically disturbed denominations. The damage done to gays who marry out of fear or a desire to do “what is expected” of them by family and society is immense. I know, because I was one such gay man who tried to believe the lie and be something that I was not. The inner conflict and years of self-hate took a toll both on me and those around me that I loved and cared about.
There is a moral duty to think, and when preachers howl that you’ve “just got to believe,” that you’ve “just got to have faith,” they are working against morality.
Now: Back to the beach.
