Christine Bakke, co-founder of Beyond Exgay and recently featured in Glamour Magazine, is scheduled to appear live on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. Good Morning America airs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. EDT.
Hat tip: Peterson Toscano
Update: For those who missed it, you can view the segment here. (Thanks Steve)
Yay for Christine! You’re a wonderful person. I know you’ll do really well.
Will this be online and watchable after the fact? I’ll be at work then and have no system of recording it. I’d love a link to that if it exists after the fact.
Christine you will do a wonderful job. I am so excited. I look forward to finally meeting you in June.
Christine did a fantastic job on GMA, and Diane Sawyer’s handling of the topic was excellent. There was actually a little blurb of Alan Chambers saying that while change is difficult, it is possible. Christine was extremely articulate and winsome in telling her story and explaining how ‘change’ is about behavior, not orientation.
Has this aired? Any chance of uploading Christine’s segment onto YouTube? I’d love to see it.
This segment was amazing. Diane Sawyer made it clear that she sees a problem with reparative therapy. She gave Christine tell her story without invalidating it with a “success” story.
This is a tipping point moment. Even though they showed an archival clip they had of Alan Chambers saying that change is possible, it came right before a clip about Ted Haggard’s change experience after three weeks of therapy.
The segment also clearly stated how medical associations say that these change programs are harmful and unnecessary. Most importantly Christine’s clear contentedness showed through, which speaks volumes more than even her words.
The question is not even, is change possible, but what is this change and is it necessary.
Excellent job Christine. Thank you for coming forward and telling your story.
Evangelicals invest one hundred million dollars annually in Focus on the Family, and more than half a million annually in Exodus. The financial objective is to make other people “change” and become like them.
Yet the kind of “change” that is “possible” results in people like Christine Bakke, Peterson Toscano, Daniel Gonzales, and Ann Phillips.
If “change” is really the goal of antigay evangelicals, then their investment is achieving the opposite of their financial objective. They are creating more activists for tolerance and gay equality.
But of course — reality check — “change” is not their true objective.
At the moment, the only place I’ve found non-paid access to the GMA video is at Comcast.net, where you have to watch for the headline A ‘Cure’ For Homosexuality?.
Mike:
The motivation is to give a fig-leaf to the anti-gay bigotry that Focus wants to harness for their dominionist political campaign.
If gay people can change, then according to Dobson, they must change, or be incarcerated for sodomy. It is his intent to absolutely eliminate all manifestations of GLBT identity.
Since in their world view, change is possible, they don’t need to feel guilty about supporting genocide.
Has anyone noticed Exodus lack of response to the segment that they were “featured”?
Exodus posted a bizarre “press release” that failed to mentioned anything about the ex-exgay focus of the segment. Supposedly this press release was published the morning of the early morning segment.
And today, Alan Chambers posted a catty remark on his personal blog hoping that the segment’s presenter, Diane Sawyer, be terminated from ABC like Rosie.
Excellent clip, thanks for sharing! Good to see her living a happy life once again!