Time to follow up on Stephen Bennett’s plans to bring Bible gift bags to gay and lesbian families and their children in Provincetown Massachusetts this coming Saturday.
In May, we noted that Stephen Bennett Ministry’s (SBM’s) $50K fundraising target could have supported a ten-fold increase in participants (from 50 to 500) as well as in Bible gift bags (from 600 to 6,000) compared to a similar effort last year.
By early July, that the target had been halved, to $25K, and the outreach to be supported with the funds was beefed up:
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I figured I’d dig around for a little background info on Cincinnati Ohio, where Exodus published a full-page ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday.
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Exodus International has launched an ad campaign starting with a full page in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Headlined, “I Questioned Homosexuality,” its theme is also reflected in a new entry page to the Exodus website titled “Question Homosexuality… Change is possible. Discover how.”
To their credit, the graphic layout and copy are lean and fresh.
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I really appreciate the depth and range of insights coming through the comments on the flexibility and fluidity post. For those who follow new posts via the RSS feed, or haven’t had a chance to follow the comments, here is a synopsis.
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A good discussion has ensued under the Gay Story With an Ex-Gay Theme post. I want to continue that with my thoughts on the flexibility or fluidity of sexual orientation.
Kinsey may have put orientation on a single scale from gay to straight, but I’m more inclined to think there are at least two relevant scales. The second one is the fluidity/flexibility scale.
While we find it most fitting to describe our baseline as gay, straight, or in between, the tendency to flex and bend also has a baseline and may shift at times over the course of a lifetime. There are probably a sizable percentage with little or no flexibility, some with moderate flexibility or phases in which fluidity spikes for a while, and a few with a lot of it.
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Two months ago we took a look at Stephen Bennett Ministry’s (SBM’s) fundraising efforts for an evangelism trip to Provincetown MA.
At that point, the $50K fundraising target looked like it could support a ten-fold increase in participants (from 50 to 500) as well as in Bible gift bags (from 600 to 6,000) compared to a similar effort last year.
Some time between then and now, things shifted a bit:
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The July issue of Instinct Magazine (on newsstands only, not online) includes a piece titled “Meet The World’s Most Boring Homo,” by Parker Ray. It opens:
For the fourth Friday night in a row, Jack (not his real name) is curled up on his IKEAfied couch, in his apartment in a non-gay part of San Francisco, and just about to watch a New Release from Blockbuster. It’s a movie he’ll probably forget about the next day when he wakes up early — around eight a.m. — to take his dog, Theo, for a walk in the park just a few blocks over.
Jack is 30 and has made several changes over the past year — examining his life, looking beyond his assumptions and stereotypes about being gay, spending time alone, seeing a therapist.
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Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives:
Live solely on an all-reactionary media diet.
The results were as toxic as a McDonald’s super-size meal.
Last year Stephen Bennett Ministries (SBM) chartered a bus and took 30 Christians from Connecticut to evangelize gays and lesbians vacationing in Provincetown, MA for four hours. “Several” more folks from out of state joined Bennett there. Six hundred gift bags (printed with “You are truly precious in God’s Eyes” in pink, because it is the “symbolic color” of glbt folks) were distributed.
Inside each gift bag was a Bible, two gospel tracts for homosexuals and a special Bible insert which contained all the verses on salvation and what God says about homosexuality. Also included was a 25 minute CD with the gospel and a special recorded message directed to the homosexual, giving the listener a chance to pray and receive Christ.
Apparently the AFA and CFA provided financial support (both are thanked for their “full support in making this … a complete success”).
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Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary electric shock aversion therapy patient 30 years ago.
Analysis coming up.
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