Post #506514

Last night I read the transcripts of the Atonement podcast. This is a documentary about the guy who was gay, then got "cured" by a Christian-based program to make him straight and then went around the country for 20 some odd years advocating for conversion therapy which has harmed so many people. Anyway he eventually realized whoops he was gay after all and then tried to come back into the gay community only whoops again, why don't people like me? He seemed honestly surprised that he wasn't welcomed with open arms. It was very interesting to read but the biggest take-away I got out of it is the guy is an attention whore. Good attention, bad attention, he loves being the center of attention. This has been a reoccurring theme in his story. Anyway, it left me with even more disgust for the whole ex gay and conversion therapy movement and made me dislike Christianity even more than I already do. Yikes! Organized religion in general has done immense harm, and the whole thing makes me shake my head. As for the guy telling his story, he just came off as attention-seeking. This is just another way for him to get the attention he craves and he doesn't actually give a shit about what he's done or the folks he's hurt, because "woo look at me!" harsh, maybe but damn.