Comments on: Ex-Gays Live in Self-Imposed Nanny State

By: grantdale

grantdale — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:50:32 +0000

erm, cough, the language hun… you are talking to Americans.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:46:50 +0000

Whatever that technical mumbo jumbo is… the fact remains that Randy Thomas is a big homosexual. A huge one. He’s ex-gay, and he’s a double whopper-sized homosexual. Not even a pentecostal-sized pair of beige pleated slacks and a pentacostally-brass buttoned navy blazer has any hope of containing him.

Despite the reality that (other) cute guys walk across my path each and every day… I’ve managed to get through an 18 year relationship without the need for a physical, electronic or even a psychological chastity belt. Keeping to my word is not difficult.

But then I remember… Randy had “issues” to start with.

If he wasn’t so nasty in his queeny way, I’d almost feel sorry for the poor bastard.

By: William

William — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:44:33 +0000

All this “accountability” lark sounds like a kind of psychological and spiritual bondage to me.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:57:40 +0000

Bottom line: these ex-gays who need so much monitoring are still gay.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:57:09 +0000

That’s about it for real personal accountability.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:11:53 +0000

The more I read about these people, the more I have Orwell’s “1984″ running through my head.

By: College Jay

College Jay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:41 +0000

Most of the men I know who use and endorse Covenant Eyes are straight. I don’t use it myself, but I do think it’s a legitimate way to help overcome addictions to pornography. Now, ways in which I think it can be abused in Christian circles, and specifically ex-gay circles, is in situations where the accountability partner isn’t simply looking out for sexually explicit material, but is also trying to stifle freedom of thought by limiting a person’s access to information that is outside of the Evangelical or ex-gay bubble. I have seen that happen before, and it’s not pretty.

By: e2c

e2c — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:52:00 +0000

And Randy Thomas’ endorsement of this software is actually a very typical attitude in evangelical circles…

By: e2c

e2c — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:50:35 +0000

Emily K. – the use of this kind of “accountability” system (whether via using filtering software or not) is deeply embedded in evangelical/charismatic thinking and practice re. all people. And it’s by no means confined to concerns/control re. sexually-oriented web sites or photos – “accountability” and “accountability partners” and “being accountable” can (often do) encompass all aspects of life in which there might be what’s often termed “habitual sin.”

I know it might seem like that’s beside the point, but with this, I believe that context matters a great deal.

By: Ed W

Ed W — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:58:25 +0000

These people fear men (the folks reading their Covenent Eyes report) more than God?

Is their faith in the all-seeing God they profess to believe in actually not so strong?