Babe magnet in a scarf.

Oh dear. I stumbled upon this today (via Unreasonable Faith):



...which then led to this:



Did God make Adam Hood the way he is just to torture him for the rest of his life with innate longings he is not allowed to fulfill? The majority of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians (including Adam Hood) seem to think that this is how their god works.

And now Adam is 'cured?' Who does this queen think she's fooling? Gay men have been marrying and having sex with women for thousands of years, and it hasn't made one of them straight. It just helps them to pass as straight, and I guess - to some minds - sex with a woman is better than no sex at all.

No, it hasn't made them straight - it's just made them desperate and sad and delusional. Apparently lying to oneself, one's wife, one's child, and everyone else is infinitely holier than being an open, honest, well-adjusted, happy human being.

If this supposed god is as omniscient and all-powerful as people have been led to believe for thousands of years, then surely s/he knows exactly who you really are, anyway, and there is no point pretending to be something you're not. How can you have an honest relationship with your god if you can't have an honest relationship with yourself?

Religious leaders who do not practice what they preach often get their asses handed to them - and quite rightly so.

The site Christian Gays has a lot of information regarding the Bible and its misuse with regard to homosexuality. If you find yourself at conflict with your church, but are determined to remain religious, either find a denomination which accepts you for who you are, or disregard the aspects you don't like. People do that all the time in religion - if not, people would still be selling their daughters, stoning adulterers and keeping slaves.

The Christian Gays site above also has numerous links to support sites for people struggling with these issues. A couple other sites of interest:

Steps to Recover from Bible Abuse
Recovering Fundamentalists

But, back to poor, misguided Adam above... Not all homosexuals are fatherless. (I was not fatherless until my father, sadly, passed away last year.) Not all homosexuals participate in anal sex (see here) -- and certainly anyone of any gender/orientation with a grain of sense in 2010 practices safe sex, which it seems Adam does/did not. (Also, Adam, I'm not a biologist, but I don't think sperm eat anything.) Not all homosexuals use Ecstasy, GHB, or Ketamine (never tried anything harder than pot myself). Not all homosexuals suffered from abuse (never experienced any myself - except verbally from fundamentalist Christians). It sounds like Adam had a very unhappy life and is now trying to blame it all on his sexual orientation.

I wonder how Jesus felt when Adam screamed his name upon consummating his sham marriage? I wonder how Jesus likes his scarf? I'm sure Jesus likes the very straight finger snaps punctuating a couple of his statements. The last couple of minutes of that second video seem like something from an SNL skit.

"Ex-gays" like Adam really boil my blood. In conclusion, I say:



(There are errors in the lyrics displayed in that video, to my dismay, but I didn't create it. The proper Lily Allen video is quite amusing, but I couldn't embed it. See it here.)