Hardly Anyone Showed up to a Brain-Melting Anti-LGBT Conference in Texas

[TexasTowelie]

The #Teens4Truth conference had few teens but numerous speakers explaining how equal rights for gay and transgender people could lead “to the death of Christianity.”


David Pickup, ex-gay psychotherapist, takes the stage at the Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary’s conference center in south Fort Worth. Pickup specializes in reparative therapy, the process by which people with deviant homosexual urges are rid of them. Run out of California, the land of looney liberals, he’s come to Texas to ply his trade and now presides over a conference on “traditional gender and sexuality,” with an eye to the young. #Teens4Truth, the mid-November conference is called. The event is an act of love, he says, as he kicks it off. “The two key words here are truth and compassion,” he tells the room. No hate in anyone’s heart, here.

The overwhelmingly beige auditorium has many empty chairs. Pickup asks in prayer that the collection of speakers he’s gathered — ex-gays, pastors, Christian lobbyists — will have “a special influence on our beloved teenagers, our children,” of whom few are in the audience. The world must be made whole again, and the young are the ones to do it. There’s one in attendance, Pickup says, an ex-gay man named Derek Paul, who has prepared a musical interlude. “I don’t know what he’s doing, actually, I haven’t heard it yet,” Pickup says. “We’re going to do a song thing. Whatever that means. Derek, come on up.”

Paul, a clean-cut young fellow in slacks and a tie, takes the stage, carrying two sizeable, multicolored flags. A syncopated Christian pop song starts playing and he begins to dance, twirling the fabric around him in spirals and circles. Despite the name of the event, the average age in the room is about 45. Attendees watch quietly as Paul hops and spins around the stage, whipping the flags around him as the song’s crescendo builds. It’s skillful choreography. The audience politely, and quickly, applauds.

Over the next two days, a few dozen attendees will learn what has gone wrong in America’s moral universe, and what to do about it, and also receive a box lunch and breakfast, included in the $25 ticket price. The rot will be exposed. To kick that off, here’s Pastor Stephen Broden, of Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas. He tells the crowd that he “just got back from Birmingham, Alabama,” where he participated in “a press conference to support Judge Roy Moore for his candidacy for the Senate.”

Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/hardly-anyone-showed-brain-melting-anti-lgbt-conference-texas/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Taliban Texas. If these types refuse to obey the parts of the constitution they do not like let

them write their own and good riddance.

America is already two countries, make the dicorce complete, no point living in a loveless marriage.

[TlalocW]

2. From that description

That flag routine sounded pretty gay, and I mean that in both the nicest and most derogatory ways possible...

It makes me think Paul is trolling Pickup.

TlalocW

[Vogon_Glory]

3. These Crusaders For (Cough, cough) Morality

Are now finding more and more people questioning their support for serial adulterers like that man in the White House and heterosexual-style chicken-hawking like the Republican candidate for Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat.

Good. Those pietistic hypocrites have a whole lot of ‘splainin’ to do, and the old BS doesn’t work as well as it used to.