Reply #55: I Feel Sorry For "Ex-Gays"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

If these so-called "ex-gays(and I don't buy the whole "conversion" from being gay to straight)" have adopted a new life for themselves, I don't have anything but the best wishes for them. Actually, I really truly feel sorry for them as I suspect that they are doing what many transgendered persons such as myself have done, which is "purging" themselves of their true desires and feelings in a vain attempt to present themselves in a more "socially acceptable" manner as shamefully demanded by family, friends, church, etc. I also feel sorry for how "ex-gays" are shamelessly exploited by anti-gay forces and used to promote their belief that homosexuality is WRONG and that gays and lesbians can (and should) change their sexual orientation, blurring the obvious differences between behaviors and feelings, the latter of which I'm almost certain never really changes among "ex-gays". I also feel sorry for "ex-gays" because most of them do not realize how much they are really harming themselves and other gays and lesbians through their sincere, yet horribly misguided, attempts to "convert" (recruit) gays and lesbians to the the heterosexual lifestyle (isn't it rather interesting whom is ACTUALLY trying to "recruit" whom?;-))