Phoenix Gay Press Conf. Opposing "Love Won Out" - PART 1

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On February 9, 2007 the gay community of Phoenix, AZ held a press conference opposing the ex-gay event "Love Won Out" being held the following day by Focus On The Family and Exodus International. The press conference was organized by the Arizona Human Rights Fund.

Cinematography by Esteban Rael

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News & Politics

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• exodus
• international
• former
• homosexual
• exgay
• ex-gay
• gay
• AHRF

[CanadianQueer]

"Love won out"? What, so if you're gay, you can't love or receive love?

[jambalaya54321]

It's people like this that give me a shred of hope for the world. I kind of want to hug them all.

[BeatBuddy]

No, it's not that people disagree with me. It's HOW they disagree. They put a concerted effort into NOT changing their minds. It's when contrary evidence and facts don't make a dent. I'm tolerant, but it doesn't mean I accept what they stand for. Unlike arch-conservatives, I defend the rights of people whom I detest the most. I fully accept homosexuality, but that's not the same as accepting what any individual homosexual believes in or stands for.

[Davmy1000]

Make sure you clarify. What you really mean by tolerance is that you don't care if people accept everyone just the those who YOU believe are important. And open mindedness is that at all... its you wanting people to believe what you believe and if they don't they're "Brainless". So much for that theory of yours.

[BeatBuddy]

Drilling into the heads of gay people that they're disturbed, abnormal, sick, or disordered effects the way they see and carry themselves.  They behave unnaturally, in ways that are not spontaneous, since they try to fit into the "normal" mold. They become self-conscious with their relationships and acquaintances. Every new person they meet is with anxiety. It implies that gays are dysfunctional or malfunctional. In what sense may I ask?

[BeatBuddy]

I knew this projection of yours would come around sooner or later. It's central to people like you. If Jesus had flaws, who is to thank for it? And you're right about one thing, Christians SHOULD be as tolerant as I am.  As a long standing member of the American Civil Liberties Union, no one can call me intolerant.

[Davmy1000]

Oh man. I feel the love flowing from you. Why can't Christians have that same wonderful tolerance as you... You speak of acceptance but its obviously one way for you Buddy.

[BeatBuddy]

Fundy Christians are brainless automatons who say the Bible is inerrant and literally true. Yeah, right, and the emperor has nice new clothes. As for the definition of fundy as in the fundamentals, meaning the axioms of Jesus, some of the things he said are quite ludicrous.

[Davmy1000]

Well then, if you want to get into linguistics then what are "fundy" Christians? Are they the ones that believe in what Bible writes or the ones that just believe that Jesus taught love and that's all there is to it? There's a powerful segregation between these two. Its important to use words carefully otherwise it appears as if you don't know what you're talking about.

[BeatBuddy]

I meant to say fundy Christians, the asshole branch of Christianity.