"ex-gay" - "Homosexual is not a noun"

In a rare interview talking about his own experiences, LOVE IN ACTION "ex-gay" leader John Smid talks about his sexual past. Documentary website: www.fishcantfly.com UPDATE: Smid has since left his position at LOVE IN ACTION

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• ex-gay
• documentary
• gay
• lesbian
• smid

[katia04]

I don't agree with this man, and I definitely don't like what he's doing. I know I'm gay. I've known since I was nine. But at the same time, I feel really sorry for him. He must be absolutely miserable. I can't imagine hating my sexual orientation so much it forces me into a miserable life of celibacy!

[Heyaitsjohn]

I'm a homosexual.

I like other men. I always have. I always will. I'm not some confused old man who doesn't know where he wants to stick it. If you want to tell people you're not a homosexual that's entirely up to you, but don't spread lies and mis-information about who other people are.

We are homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals, and everything in-between. Yes, we are different things, and yes, also, we are equals in that.

Thanks, but we don't need you to speak anymore.

[eddy909100]

Smid now REPUDIATES the ex gay movement he was part of.. he now is EX EX GAY and has apoligized too gay community.

[Maxspatula]

Well, it's not a noun because it's an adjective. So they do have a point. A bit.

[im4jesusalltheway]

There are no homosexuals or bisexuals just people who have indecent, unnatural, filthy, immoral, nasty, disgraceful, disgusting, disease spreading sex with people they know they shouldn't.

I wish all the homosexuals parents were homsexual then they would never have been born.

Lord Jesus please forgive me for typing that. Lord please help me not to have bad feelings about homos and be disgusted by them to just realise they are yielding to perverted spirits.

[jusitke07]

If Homosexual is not a noun, well so is Heterosexual, if that's the case. I don't get this conversion therapy. There is nothing broken to "fix or cure" what is intinctiively innate such as homosexuality, bisexuality, or heterosexuality.

[questioningall]

What I want to know is whether he made up with his wife.

[Vaslav72]

What he says at the end is fine only if it relates also to heterosexuality: if homosexual isn't a noun so it has to be for heterosexual.

[nicksum29]

Well, it seems he wasn't originally gay, but straight. Homosexuality IS a unique kind of person: Emperor Hadrian, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Oscar Wilde, Wh Auden, Christopher Isherwood... the list is long (and THAT is only the MEN). How long do we have to continue dragging straight people into the future kicking and screaming. WAKE UP! !SLAP!

[rodgierad]

Yeah-every gay man has come across one of these guys:

The sailor who drinks a few beers and is suddenly really "friendly".

The college student who wants to "experiment".

The guy who gets married-then becomes "confused".

That's WAY different than being gay/homosexual.

It was NEVER like that for me. I never had a choice or made one.

I don't have time or energy to analyze or punish myself for being me.

Good luck to that guy-hope some day he realizes he doesn't have to be alone.

[pt90048]

I support John's right to pursue his own happiness in whatever way he likes. My problem is when they aggressively recruit people for ex-gay ministries - which has the effect of condemning those who don't follow that path. By preying on the weak and unstable, they make their living.