{"id":919,"date":"2007-09-06T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/919"},"modified":"2007-09-06T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T15:03:12","slug":"question-ex-ality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/919","title":{"rendered":"Question Ex-ality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-Gay Watch follows up on a previous post that…er…Questions PFOX<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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As a follow-up to our previous post<\/a> on this matter, we have gathered more information in our investigation of claims made by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX<\/a>) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we spoke with Jackie Abrams, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Fair. According to Abrams, no physical altercation occurred, police were never called and no one was ejected from the fairgrounds – she was emphatic and certain. “I was in radio contact with the other board members during the Fair, and definitely would have known if the police had been summoned. It did not happen <\/strong>[her emphasis],” said Abrams. She added that her calls to PFOX, and specifically to PFOX president Regina Griggs, had gone unanswered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They got it out there…why on earth would they want to help anyone prove that it was bullshit?  The faithful now have something to bark about…that some wicked militant homosexual activist had attacked their peaceful respectful effort to educate people about the truth of homosexuality…and just you never mind that it never actually happened.  Since when does an organization that was born on lies, built on a bedrock of lies, and does nothing but lie through its teeth about homosexuals and homosexuality constantly, meticulously, relentlessly, suddenly stop lying<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

??? <\/p>\n

Of course they lie.  Does a bear shit in the woods?  Is the pope Catholic?  Does PFOX lie?  Yes…it’s good, it’s necessary, to expose their lies whenever, wherever they pop up.  But on the other hand if by now it’s surprising you that someone from PFOX would make such brazenly false accusations about something involving homosexuals, then I guess it must also be a constant surprise to you that the sky is blue and water is wet.\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile…via Ex-Gay Watch, Truth Wins Out has some food for thought for all you parents out there, thinking about sending your gay kids off to ex-gay camp…<\/p>\n

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Ex-Gay Counselor Chris Austin Convicted of Sexual Assault<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Truth Wins Out is reporting that Chris Austin, a longtime ex-gay counselor from Irving, Texas, was convicted today of sexually assaulting a client. Austin, a previous speaker for both Evergreen International<\/a> and the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH<\/a>), has been accused of sexual assault on a client before. In 2001, Mark Hufford made similar accusations:<\/p>\n

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Hufford accused Austin of engaging in improper sexual behavior that included “oral copulation and fondling” during counseling sessions that spanned more than a year. The psychologist, who also teaches in the church’s Sunday School, had convinced Hufford to participate in “touch therapy.” The therapy gradually progressed to nude sessions and physical intimacy, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m assuming the victims in both cases were legally adults, but it’s worth bearing in mind that outfits such as Evergreen and Exodus and Love In Action all claim to be ministries so they don’t have to submit to the licensing and oversight regulations that real hospitals and doctors must.  Literally Anyone<\/em> can claim to be a professional in the treatment of Same Sex Attraction Disorder.  It’s like being a palm reader, only you get to make your customers tell you their sexual fantasies and participate in touch therapy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex-Gay Watch follows up on a previous post that…er…Questions PFOX… As a follow-up to our previous post on this matter, we have gathered more information in our investigation of claims made by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) here. Yesterday, we spoke with Jackie Abrams, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Fair. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,22,26,46,60,6,12],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ex-gays","tag-fighting-back","tag-the-bully-mindset","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-noise-machine","tag-the-right-wing-mindset","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}