WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) is suing the Washington DC Office of Human Rights for failing to protect former homosexuals under its sexual orientation anti-discrimination law. "The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America, yet they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws," said Regina Griggs, PFOX executive director.
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Ex-gays are discriminated against? Really? I thought that they were esteemed as precious trophies for right-wingers to raise up upon their shoulders and present mockingly to any liberal who dares to say that homosexuality isn't a choice. Obviously this vast multitude of people serves as a gleeful contradiction of that, right?
Of course, the fact that they do not really exist might be a bit harmful to your case...
"Former homosexuals" are either straight, or bi/gay and lying to everyone around them.
Furthermore, they are NOT the most "bullied and maligned group in America." That title goes to the LGBT community as a whole.
You can get down from your cross now.
The problem with Ex-Gays is not that they're "maligned" as much as they're constantly paraded around like show ponies by the Religious Right, while they themselves are suffering because they're lying to themselves, their families, their opposite-sex partners/spouses, and more or less the world.
I pity those in the LGBT community who feel as though they have to go through that in order to find peace, but...
Wait, the fundies are pushing for anti-discrimination laws?
...Sky's still there but What the Fuck?
On one hand, I agree that "ex-gays" (aka people who have gone back into the closet) should be protected from discrimination, as I'd imagine that they would be facing it from all different directions. On the other, I find it incredibly hypocritical that an organization that bases itself in telling homosexuals that they're evil and have to change would demand anything from a human rights organization.
These anti-discrimination laws include *all* sexual orientations. If you are fired from a gay bar for being straight, they include you. If--and don't laugh--one day a gay gang is formed, one that makes it its business to beat "breeders" leaving straight bars and fundie churches, the hate crimes laws would include that.
anonymous_troy @ WMDKitty:
Exactly my thoughts. One of the most perplexing articles I've ever read.
It seems to me that their only goal is to stall the passage of a key anti-discrimination bill, hypocritically enough, by claiming it's not inclusive enough.
PFOX is nothing more than a group of fundamentalist fiends.
"The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America..."
How does that work, exactly?
"That's so ex-gay!"
"You fscking ex-faggot!"
Although I believe sexual orientation and preference are immalleable and disagree with the maligning and hyperbolic rhetoric of PFOX, from my own personal experience I would conclude that one's sexual identity does develop over time in different ways for different people, and that nobody should discriminate because of changes in sexual identitywhether from straight to gay or gay to straight, or any other way, for that mattereven if it is inconsistent with that person's sexual preference, and even if that inconsistency causes mental anguish.
Yes, as a matter of fact they are, if you'd bother to actually read the law instead of whinging that people you brainwash into saying they're not gay anymore so that you can tell us all that it's totally a choice and we're still going to hell...aren't protected. They're protected by the same thing that protects straight people. You know, that thing called mainstream American society. And in the event that that failed to protect them, they would have the same recourse to hate crimes laws that anyone else does when a hate crime actually happens to them.
uhhh, would ex-gays, assuming that they actualy exist and are not just Bi, or just people who were unsure of their serxuality, be protected by the same "shall not be discriminated against on the basis of ... sexuality ..." laws, or is US law craply written in a way that is not deliberately overbroad in its protection from discrimination?
also, as someone else has pointed out, why are the fundies CALLING for anti discrimination laws?
Time to start farming pigs in aviaries then, and time to make large nets to catch them with. >.> <.<
Since like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny, there is no such thing as an "Ex-gay", so there is no need to be granted special rights or protections.
The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America...
Actually, I believe that honor goes to transsexuals. Nice try though.
Confused?
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