RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Choice

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yeah, don't knock it till you try it. :-)
There is a reason Leave it to Beaver ever existed. It's not just because
it was some kind of bizarre freak show that could never be true, like
some people would have you believe. That's on MTV, and it's called "The
Real World", ironically enough.
A lot of those Gay converts thought that they were just different, but
when they take a hard look at their lives, they realize that there was
something else. That it wasn't just how they were, but that they could
be who they wanted to be. I am sure it was not easy for them to deal
with, but those kinds of stories make me wonder if it is genetic at all.
No one wants to think that something that is a basic component of who
they feel they are is wrong. They want to be accepted for who they are,
but what you do is a part of who you are. If you don't like who you are,
you have to change what you do. 

Shannon Spurling
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross, Matthew
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:45 PM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Choice

So if you're not satisfied being gay, and believe that it's a sin, it's
"weird" for people to help you change? The support groups you refer to
aren't just groups of people sitting around waiting to help like the
Maytag man, they actually have people who come to them, and in enough
cases change that aspect of their life and are happier with their lives
afterwards. The people who attend wish to change on at least some level,
and come there of their own free will.

Helping people is never "weird", even if you haven't the decency to
respect the religious beleifs behind someone's wish to help.

> Anywho, my comment was that these people sound (to me) to be 
> just as strange as
> the right-wing, Christian conservatives that form support 
> groups to help "gay"
> men change their minds and "choose" to be "straight" again, 
> and resume their
> lives in a Leave-it-to-Beaver lifestyle, complete with 
> god-fearin', church-goin'
> wife and kids, and abandon their life of sin and forbidden love.

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