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Fearless

(18,421 posts) Sun Dec 14, 2014, 01:06 AM Dec 2014

‘Twins’ on ex-gay group’s billboard are actually the same man… and he’s gay

Christian anti-gay group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays launched a billboard in Richmond, Virginia featuring pictures of two identical men, claiming: “Identical twins. One gay, one not. We believe twins research studies show NOBODY IS BORN GAY”.

Stock image model Kyle Roux – who sat for the photos several years ago – reached out to NBC after seeing the story online.

He said: “I was obviously quite shocked, so that why I decided to send you guys an email saying hey, I’m that guy in that billboard. It just seems like there no place in today’s world for an organization that is promoting this as being some kind of deviant or distasteful lifestyle, because I’ve lived my life openly gay and happy for my entire life.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/12/twins-on-ex-gay-groups-billboard-are-actually-the-same-man-and-hes-gay/

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‘Twins’ on ex-gay group’s billboard are actually the same man… and he’s gay (Original Post) Fearless Dec 2014 OP

You'd think they could find some guy that agreed with them who would allow his pics brewens Dec 2014 #1

There are several issues on this one, all intertwined. Joe Magarac Dec 2014 #2

Ex-gay therapy should be banned Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #3

brewens

(13,596 posts)

1. You'd think they could find some guy that agreed with them who would allow his pics

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2014, 08:57 AM

Dec 2014

to be used for that. Then again, someone might recognize him and think he's the gay one! LOL

Joe Magarac

(297 posts)

2. There are several issues on this one, all intertwined.

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2014, 09:49 AM

Dec 2014

Thumping the being born gay issue is sleight of hand.

Although I am gay myself and know I didn't choose it or get manipulated into it somehow, that's not the same as being 100% certain it is from birth. That's a scientific question that isn't pertinent to a matter of personal liberty anyway.

The big ideological issue is the anti-gay implication the we need to be "cured" of something.

Then in this particular case there's the misleading advertizing (probably not legally actionable).

But the big legal issue that might put a stop to these people is the out and out medical quackery,

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)

3. Ex-gay therapy should be banned

Reply to Fearless (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2014, 07:42 PM

Dec 2014

It's a dangerous, quack "therapy" that should be outlawed for the same reasons as snake oil. The BPS would revoke my membership if I ever recommended it to a patient. We found the brain structures that set sexuality years ago and found that they were set in the womb.

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