Ex-gays drive ratings and a homophobic View
On "The View," the often annoying morning talk show, the women decided to take a closer look at a program to "straighten out gay teens," speaking with a formerly gay man who had gone straight. You can read the transcript and expand your annoyance with all four of them to greater and lesser degrees - particularly Star Jones, pictured, and her sex-negative Views like "There's a consequence to good clean fun." The View did not present any rebuttal, no pro-gay speaker, no counterpoint to the lies and false statistics their guests provided.
Meanwhile, over at CNN, they were busy running their ex-gay story too, only they delivered a very strong rebuttral from a young man who went through the program and realized along the way that he could, at the very least, be gay and Christian. Now he goes to church with his boyfriend and he's studying psychology, something that has led him to question the credentials of his former counselors - ie: they don't have any.
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