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The BBC sent bisexual reporter David Akinsanya into the "ex-gay" ministry Love In Acton to turn him heterosexual. Needless to say, it didn't work. In fact, Akinsanya made a keen observation about the leadership.
Four days into the course, Akinsanya walked out, realising that without the religious conviction of the other participants, he could go no further. "Even the course organisers, who claim to have been converted, admitted they still struggle with homosexual feelings," he says. "They seemed to be in some strange no man's land."
Enough said. Isn't it time they close up shop and stop wasting peoples' valuable time and hard earned money?
2 Comments:
This really does say it all. A sexual no man's land. How pathetic that people would still go throug this nonsense.
posted by Anonymous, at
8/08/2005 10:55 AM
It is a very interesting article! Some things look more related to his depression and some kind of "life crisis" that we all undergo, and try to blame in different factors: Some blame it in wife, some blame it on destiny... he blame it on homosexuality, until he realized that the roots of his depression were based on his lack of acceptance to himself, rather than homosexuality.
Couple of things:
1)The fact that man-woman relationships are perceived as "normal" has nothing to do with the nature of the relationship... The NORM imposed by us tell us that it "should be" that way, and one have to be loaded with self love and real courage to challenge the norm in order to be happy.
2) I always thought that children were the result of a relationship, no the reason why people get together (ideally). Wanting kids -in my opinioin- in not reason enough to get together with a woman that may eventually be very unhappy if she ever discover that her husband is thinking about his poker buddies while having sex with her (I doubt that an "ex-gay" can really make love to a woman tha he doesn't like in the first place)
3) I understand that -as the son of a racially mixed couple- he ca be affraid of other people no treating right his kids for being the sons or daugthers of two daddies, but that shouldn't stop him. We all struggle with freaks in this world. Look at us, sons and daugthers of conventional families, we still have to listen the freak right wingers trying to convince us that we are "living in sin"
4)Even when he is a journalist for BBC, he is still loaded with unresoved issues... and he ask why is he single ! (sight) come on! a man who talk about homosexuality as "life style" have still a whole lot to deal with!
