Fox News embraces friendly term for Virginia’s ”ex-gay” operatives: ”Gay Reversal Advocates”
”We offered the same books to Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia. We e-mailed all publicly funded universities nationwide that have a GLBTQ center…. Our offer to donate ex-gay books and brochures, we were rejected by all.”
FoxNews.com quoting Regina Griggs, the director of the country’s most vocal group of socially conservative operatives who promote a religiously correct agenda that gays and lesbians can ”pray the gay away.” PFOX headquarters are located in Virginia and they have hammered away this year at public school systems and the National Education Association for religiously driven materials that appear to be aimed at confusing kids and teens about their emerging sexualities. The news piece by Fox News is very sympathetic to their propaganda about being victims of gay-friendly oppression. (FOX)
Their tactics mimic and mock every aspect of gay-supportive organizations for LGBT students, especially the well-established and -respected group PFLAG. A recent Washington City Paper writer went on an investigation to find ex-gays who were not spokespeople for the movement and could not find any. (Washington City Paper)
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