For those (like myself) who missed The View on Monday morning, the show featured Scott Davis, director of Exodus Youth, and Mike Ensley, another ex-gay who had been through a reparative therapy program. Beaverhausen brings us some images from the show and found it “disheartening to see a segment that seems designed to reinforce stereotypes and scare mothers into thinking the worst about ‘the homosexual lifestyle’.”
You can read a transcript of the segment over at Good as You. They conclude that “judging by the interview, it seems that the best Exodus can offer is that through their programs (the details of which they of course remain vague), you can almost get to the point to where you can think that you might kinda sorta be possibly attracted to the opposite sex someday, maybe.
Joy’s comment at least hit the nail on the head: “Why do you put it as if something is wrong with being gay? And, also, the other question I have, who would choose to be gay in a world, in a society, where homosexuals are vilified and crucified the way they are in this country, for example. Why would you choose something like that? It’s something that you are or are not.”
I did ask myself what Star Jones was wondering about as she looked on…