Blood, start your boiling
Jun. 10th, 2005 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumI'm sure by now many of you have heard the story of the 16 year old who came out to his parents and is now being sent to some fundie camp to get him 'straight.
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pracuel mentioned it on his journal and today jenlittlebottom mentioned on hers, and now I'm mentioning it on mine.
Here's the website of the organization, the whitest bunch of people you ever did see.
And, just for pained grins, here's a link to the application
Their email address is: info@loveinaction.org, and because I'm seriously pissed off, I sent an email, even though I am sure it will be ignored.
I'm not sure this will reach anyone appropriate, and I'm certain even if it does your hearts and your minds will be closed to what I have to say, but I have the need to say it, if only it assuage the rage I'm feeling right now. I’m quite literally shaking with anger.
First let me say I gather that some of what you do at your Refuge camp deals with helping people through drug and alcohol addiction. I have no quarrel with that. When people try to get rid of something that has been that important in their life, it is important to fill it up with something equally important, and God is a good way to go.
No, I’m talking about your other program, the one that supposedly turns gay people straight.
You should know that news of a 16 year old boy being sent to your 'camp' is making its way to blogs across the world, and by and large people are not happy about it.
I know gay people, and you know something? Sex is only a small part of their lives. Or rather, it is as important to them as it is to the average heterosexual person. It doesn’t run their lives. It isn’t an addiction.
The people I know are in committed, long term relationships, they love the person they are with; they live together, laugh together and fight over whose turn it is to do the dishes, just like any other couple.
What are you so afraid of? That they are normal? That people who are gay can love God and Christ and act just like straight people? Or are you afraid that admitting gay people can’t be changed to your satisfaction will mean you have to face the fact that life is complicated and messy and doesn’t always follow the rules you think it should?
Look I understand the founder of your organization is gay. I’m not going to say ‘was’ gay, because I don’t believe he has a choice to be straight any more than I have the choice to be gay. However, if he chooses to be ashamed of who he is, that’s his problem. If he wants to suppress his natural feelings, then that’s his life, but to force it on people, to brainwash them into thinking your way is wrong. And it is evil.
You can’t change people, all you can do is frighten them into behaving they way you want them too. And people living in fear are never free.
That’s not very Christian, is it?
I don't normally do that sort of thing, but I am just so tired of this backwards trend our country seems to be in. Why is it so bloody hard to accept people?
Yesterday
pracuel mentioned it on his journal and today jenlittlebottom mentioned on hers, and now I'm mentioning it on mine.Here's the website of the organization, the whitest bunch of people you ever did see.
And, just for pained grins, here's a link to the application
Their email address is: info@loveinaction.org, and because I'm seriously pissed off, I sent an email, even though I am sure it will be ignored.
I'm not sure this will reach anyone appropriate, and I'm certain even if it does your hearts and your minds will be closed to what I have to say, but I have the need to say it, if only it assuage the rage I'm feeling right now. I’m quite literally shaking with anger.
First let me say I gather that some of what you do at your Refuge camp deals with helping people through drug and alcohol addiction. I have no quarrel with that. When people try to get rid of something that has been that important in their life, it is important to fill it up with something equally important, and God is a good way to go.
No, I’m talking about your other program, the one that supposedly turns gay people straight.
You should know that news of a 16 year old boy being sent to your 'camp' is making its way to blogs across the world, and by and large people are not happy about it.
I know gay people, and you know something? Sex is only a small part of their lives. Or rather, it is as important to them as it is to the average heterosexual person. It doesn’t run their lives. It isn’t an addiction.
The people I know are in committed, long term relationships, they love the person they are with; they live together, laugh together and fight over whose turn it is to do the dishes, just like any other couple.
What are you so afraid of? That they are normal? That people who are gay can love God and Christ and act just like straight people? Or are you afraid that admitting gay people can’t be changed to your satisfaction will mean you have to face the fact that life is complicated and messy and doesn’t always follow the rules you think it should?
Look I understand the founder of your organization is gay. I’m not going to say ‘was’ gay, because I don’t believe he has a choice to be straight any more than I have the choice to be gay. However, if he chooses to be ashamed of who he is, that’s his problem. If he wants to suppress his natural feelings, then that’s his life, but to force it on people, to brainwash them into thinking your way is wrong. And it is evil.
You can’t change people, all you can do is frighten them into behaving they way you want them too. And people living in fear are never free.
That’s not very Christian, is it?
I don't normally do that sort of thing, but I am just so tired of this backwards trend our country seems to be in. Why is it so bloody hard to accept people?
