I was reading See magazine today. You probably don't have anything like it in Calagary now that the Strait bought out the whatever it was that Calgary once had as an independent newspaper.
In it is a story about Zach, a 16 year old in Bartlett Tenn. who recently came out to his parents.
In the typical fundy way they have had the audacity to proclaim his unworthy of making his own decisions about sexuality and have sent him off ot be 'normalized' in a camp called "Love in action" where people are 'cured' of their personal sexual identity. It's a harsh read.
I'm sorry to get on a soap box for such an innocent comment (I know it wasn't a real viewpoint). I just find it ironic to read the article just today and then have the opportunity to bring it up in the conversation.
Perhaps my sarcasm didn't translate well to the comment field. Sorry. I'll inform my friends Nicholas and Raymond that there will be a cure on the way. You're right it's just too silly to finish.
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Date: 2005-06-29 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-29 10:19 am (UTC)No gays in Alberta? That would surprise a number of friends of mine as they vanished from existence.
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Date: 2005-06-29 05:10 pm (UTC)Okay, I couldn't finish... funny as it was to pretend, I had actual bile rising in my throat. Herk.
Is the cure worth it?
Date: 2005-07-01 12:03 am (UTC)In it is a story about Zach, a 16 year old in Bartlett Tenn. who recently came out to his parents.
In the typical fundy way they have had the audacity to proclaim his unworthy of making his own decisions about sexuality and have sent him off ot be 'normalized' in a camp called "Love in action" where people are 'cured' of their personal sexual identity.
It's a harsh read.
original article which was printed in See magazine
I'm sorry to get on a soap box for such an innocent comment (I know it wasn't a real viewpoint). I just find it ironic to read the article just today and then have the opportunity to bring it up in the conversation.
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Date: 2005-06-29 05:49 pm (UTC)