The Huffington Post: The Ex-Gay Movement at the White House. ⇒
6 June 2006, lunch time
A funny send-up of the whole "we can treat being gay" movement is the film But I'm a Cheerleader. (Which has a great soundtrack, by the way.)
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
“The Christian nationalist movement has constructed a parallel reality with, among other things, its own psychological theories and institutions.”
That sentence alone made it worth reading the article. This is an idea that’s been floating around in my head for a while, but that I couldn’t wholly grasp and state succinctly. This is terrifying to me, and I have been wondering how people can really believe these things in a world where they are so obviously untrue. But it’s part of a greater system, an entire vision of reality that the Conservative movement has been quietly crafting over the last few years. It’s part of the Karl Rove approach to politics: if you say it often enough, it’s true.
by Ben on June 6 2006, 3:01 pm #
it’s a long list: intelligent design, global warming, terry schiavo…
it’s a sorry state of affairs.
by award tour on June 6 2006, 5:01 pm #