Ex-Gays Face Increasing Harassment

By Mike Hatfield

May 29, 2008 - Bart Allen is a name that most people haven't heard before. No one has made traveling plays about his tragic death nor have there been TV movies made about him nor hate crime legislation named in his honor.

Bart Allen's name, however, should be widely known and mourned. He was in the process of leaving the homosexual lifestyle when he was strangled and murdered by his gay roommate.

Allen's parents, Joe and Marion, founded Hope for the Broken Heart after his tragic murder at the hands of his gay lover. They have spoken at Exodus International events.

When Bart was struggling with unwanted homosexual feelings, he sought out a counselor for help. The counselor, however, told him he was born gay. According to Joe and Marion, "When Bart came out of her office, he looked like he had been given a death sentence. I know this lady did not realize what she was doing ... but she had told him he was born gay. She told him we were doing him an injustice by telling him this was wrong and he needed to go back [to the homosexual lifestyle].

Bart Allen did go back to homosexuality, but he couldn't accept it. His lover, however, refused to accept the fact that Bart wanted to leave homosexuality behind. While Bart was asleep, his partner strangled him to death with a dog leash.

Bart Allen's story is an extreme, but more and more ex-gays are reporting being targeted for ridicule or violence for openly leaving homosexual behaviors. In addition, professional groups are being pressured to remain silent about the possibility of change.

Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays says her organization and staff members have been repeatedly attacked because of their message: there are ex-gays.

PFOX members were assaulted at the Arlington County Fair in 2007 for distributing literature sharing hope for those with unwanted SSA.

The American Psychiatric Association was recently pressured into cancelling a seminar on the role of faith among gays and heterosexuals.

Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern has come under withering attacks by gay activists for vocally rejecting homosexuality as a fixed condition.

Stephen Black is an Oklahoman who has struggled with unwanted SSA. He doesn't like referring to himself as "ex-gay" but he confirms that there is growing evidence of widespread harassment of individuals who openly reject a gay identity.

According to Black: "Ex-gays are in fact, afraid to make themselves known. I have met with MANY people who are influential in my community and others who have church communities that would make it very difficult to talk about their recovery from homosexuality. He continues:

Yet there is even a larger and growing threatening group of gay activists who are fueling the fire of fear and oppression in our culture. They wish to silence the freedom of choice when it comes to leaving homosexuality. The idea of leaving homosexuality is very threatening to their gay insecure existence and their political agendas."

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There are growing numbers of political gay groups that are very disturbing to me. They are actual GAY hate groups who wish to silence the voices of ex-gays. These groups are like the brazenly named "Ex-Gay Watch" and their club of bloggers who use hatefully sarcastic words in addressing ex-gays. There are even more radical groups that are extra hateful with their narcissistic sarcasms which reveal vicious vitriol fueled by people like Wayne Besen.

There are extremist individuals on both sides of the issue of homosexuality. Some radicals such as Fred Phelps demonize gays; gay groups are now treating ex-gays to the same campaign of vilification practiced by Phelps and his ilk. NARTH rejects both extremes.

A person struggling with unwanted homosexual feelings and behaviors should not have to fear "coming out" of homosexuality or being ridiculed for embracing a heterosexual identity. Yet, that is what is occurring. As more and more scientific truths are revealed about the origins of homosexual feelings, the uglier this situation may become for those who wish to leave homosexuality behind.

It would appear that, according to gay orthodoxy, you can embrace a gay identity, but once you do, you can't leave it without suffering ridicule or violence.

"The Little Black Book - Queer in the 21st Century"

Is this the future?  This booklet was distributed to hundreds of kids (middle school age and up) at Brookline High School, Brookline, MA, on April 30, 2005. It was written by the Boston-based AIDS Action Committee, with help with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Boston Public Health Commission.

The event that day was designed for children and their teachers across Massachusetts, organized by the "Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network" (GLSEN).  This is the group that runs "Gay-Straight Alliance" clubs in public schools across the country. You must ask yourself: What kind of person would write this? What kind of person would give it to kids? Where is this movement headed?

Click here for full report of event, including photos, news reports, Governor's statement, and more.

Here's the reaction from a medical expert on sexual transmitted diseases: click here.

We've posted parts of this book below, or you can View and Download full version of book
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Front Cover                                            Acknowledgements

Message to the readers!

Is this the homosexual movement's opinion of kids and young adults?

As the text says, "Here is a list of Boston area bars and clubs for the discerning queerboy."

Back cover of booklet, with Aids Action Committee logo and contact information.

Associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy,
Frank Lombard, was recently arrested by the FBI and charged
with offering up his adopted 5-year-old African American son
for sex to an undercover cop. Lombard admitted to molesting his
own adopted son to the undercover officer in an online chat room
under the user name "Perv Dad for Fun". He invited the under
cover officer to travel to North Carolina to rape his already-molested
adopted son. Lombard faces 20 years in prison if convicted but is
not eligible for the death penalty.

Lombard bragged to the detective that “the abuse of the child was
easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was
 happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl
during the molestation,” according to the detective’s affidavit.

Lombard is gay and adopted the two children together with his
partner. He lists himself as a fan of controversial gay Bishop
Gene Robinson on his facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Frank-Lombard/1316445#/friends.php?id=1316445

The big question remains on how Duke University and the media will
address this in light of explosive nature of gay adoption and homo-
sexuality in the current political environment. So far the mainstream
media has been mum on this issue even though they were quick to
rush judgment in the case of the Duke Lacrosse players which were later
found to be innocent.

This case also has the potential to highlight a growing number of similar
cases over the past few years in which gay adoptive parents have been
 found to be molesting their adoptive children. One of the most shocking
cases comes from the UK where Ian Wathey, 41, was jailed for five years
and his partner, Craig Faunch, 32, for six years after being found guilty of
several counts of involving the abuse of four boys aged between eight
and 14. This was the first gay male couple in the UK to be approved for
foster care. Social workers said that they were afraid of being labeled
homophobes and ignored some signs that would've otherwise indicated
 abuse. This pattern of abuse is not just limited to adoptive and foster parents.

Just this last month a gay rights campaigner and executive adviser on child
sex issues, James Rennie,was found to be leading a double life as leader
of pedophile ring and carried out an attack on a three-month-old baby boy
while baby sitting him for friends.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178354/Gay-rights-campaigner-led-double-life-leader-paedophile-ring-carried-catalogue-child-abuse.html

The question remains whether this pattern of child sexual abuse and male
homosexuals will be seen as a validation of some studies which suggest
that homosexual men are more than 40 times more likely than the general
population to molest. Dr. Judith Reisman Ph.D. one such researcher who
found this to be the case states clearly "You're looking at a much
higher rate of abuse,".This follows other studies that show that homo-
sexuals are more likely to have been abused as children. Statistics also
show that children that are abused are more likely to become abusers
 with as many as 70% of parents who abuse having also been abused
 themselves.