Media Alert - Boston Globe

I came to Boston to find out I was quoted in the Boston Globe today I did the interview while sitting in Atlanta on my way to Chicago last week.

”We don’t cure people,” said Randy Thomas, membership director for Exodus International, which has more than 100 ex-gay ministry chapters nationwide. ”The goal is Christ, not a particular orientation.”

Thomas said he had gay relationships from the time he was a teenager. He believes he was drawn to men largely to make up for troubled bonds with his father and says he stopped seeking gay relationships when he found Christianity in his mid-20s. Now 37, he said he is starting to date women, but is unsure if he will ever attain his dream of marriage.

Thomas said he doesn’t understand why Massachusetts gay activists are so hostile to his group’s message. He recalled being humiliated when he testified at the State House in Boston two years ago against same-sex marriage. When he talked about his decision to renounce his homosexual life, he said, ”the whole room erupted in laughter.”

”When I was a young teenager, I was laughed at for identiying as gay,” he said.

Other than the fringe activists demonizing ex-gays, the overall article is decent. It features my friends Brenna and Dawn as well. I want to clarify two things though. I don’t know that my “dream” is to be married and I didn’t just “start” dating. I have dated women off and on for over 10 years now. I remember telling her that no matter if married or single, I am content. I would love to be married with kids but quite ok if that doesn’t happen either. My goal is Christ first no matter what. I even briefly told her about my meditations on celibacy. Not sure where she got that I might not realize my “dream.”

I am glad she put in that I was once laughed at for being gay and also laughed at for choosing to walk away from homosexuality. Even though the way that parallel is constructed in the article is a little awkward (content structure of singling out the one sentence) I think it shows a parallel nobody wants to look at in the gay activist community: that they can be as intolerant and rude as anyone else.

The reporter, Patricia Wen, was very professional and asked really good questions.

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