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In one of the final exercises for the night, we form another circle in the middle of the room. (We end up doing this circle thing a lot.) Staff members pass out black cloth blindfolds, which we tie around our eyes. With the blindfolds in place, staff men squeak their sneakers and bounce basketballs on the hard floor, recreating the sounds from a busy high-school gym class.
They yell out the the kind of shit-talk typical of high-school kids:
“C’mon, take the shot!”
“You suck!”
“How did you miss that?”
“Why are you always picked last?”
“Okay, let’s hit the showers.”
When we remove our blindfolds, I see that many of the Journeyers are shaken up. The exercise has awoken some terrible adolescent memories. With tears streaming down some of our faces, we follow staff members into an adjoining, smaller, carpeted room. |
That is so fucked up I don't even know what to say. So I guess the "cure" to being gay means that you have to lose every little bit of self confidence you've gained in your life.
Also the part where the men are supposed to blame it all on their father and physically beat up a proxy disturbs and saddens me.
I'm a Christian and long ago decided that any person who treats being gay as worse than being a murderer needs to have some serious therapy. The Bible was not written by God, it was written by people an account of events, & rewritten by many other people over the years. It probably differs from the actual events in the same way a Disney movie differs from the original fairytale. Have you ever read the Princess and the Frog? or the original Little Mermaid?
Personally I try to stick with the golden rule and take everything else with a grain of salt. In my opinion the Bible should be approached as the best record christians have, not as the final word.
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I apologize, normally I keep my religious views to myself and view anyone who brings up their religious beliefs (or lack thereof) in a conversation as rude. This article just really got my blood boiling.
