The Gay Slant: Getting 'Cured' In Alaska
http://ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=2381&MediaType=1&Category=28Walter Weeks
9/13/2008
The big story this week is the Love Won Out ex-gay conference taking place today in Anchorage, Alaska, sponsored by James Dobson's Christian fundamentalist group Focus on the Family, where participants are exposed to a number of deceptions about being gay – primarily that it is "curable" and a choice.
Sexuality, certainly, is a complicated puzzle. There is no single switch that controls it. But it simply goes against common sense to believe that people would choose being gay when the world continues to be littered with hateful, and often demeaning, anti-gay messages.
And perhaps the organizers of such events don't really – believe that is. More likely, they use the poor unsuspecting mugs of their skulduggery as props in their continuing gay-Christian fundamentalist culture war.
