Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 07:40:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: A Jay Eddy <ajayeddy@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Conversion Therapy - A Cure?

July 14, 1998
Letters to the Editor         Contact: A-Jay Eddy (954) LCR-1995
         Broward Log Cabin Club of Florida
         P.O. Box 1281, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33302

SADLY, TODAY'S RIGID EVANGELICAL-FUNDAMENTALISTS 
ARE NOT BIBLICAL GOOD SAMARITANS FOR GAYS 

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Though the streets are sparkling clean,
the shrubs are impeccably manicured and the three brilliant
steeples of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Cathedral rocket into
the heavens there's hardly a good Samaritan in that temple's
hierarchy when it comes to the skewed anti-gay revelations
rolling off the tongue of evangelical-political activist Dr. D.
James Kennedy.

A founding board member of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral
Majority, Kennedy calls for the protection of "religious liberty
and American heritage by encouraging the application of Biblical
principles to all spheres of our culture and to all of our
lives."  He ties his crusade to that of Dobson's and Bauer's who
set the condescending anti-gay agenda for Focus on the Family,
the Christian Coalition and others.

Behind his elegant-rosewood-cathedral-office doors Kennedy and
his strategists condemn and collect. Like temple money-exchanges
they heed not the "Golden Rule" while calling for the "Reclaiming
of American for Christ" but, conjure up "brimstone and fire"
direct and indirect deceptive images of gay women and men.

Who will be the next victims of these strict Biblical
fundamentalists?  If homosexuality could be eliminated through
conversion therapy must all Americans be born again? 

Jews, Muslims, non-Christian native Americans, Gypsies, etc.
beware of the those recent enticing ads which promulgate the
"fundamentalist cure" for demonic homosexual sinners. The
credentialed American Psychological Association has not accepted
that conversion strategy as the only alternative therapy in
understanding human sexuality. The A.P.A. rejects the distortion
of truth just as medieval martyrs rejected the religious belief
that the earth was flat.

Let's face the obvious reality of what our Founding Fathers
passed on when coupling "Freedom of Religion" to "Freedom From
Religious Persecution." There can be no real lasting freedom in
the elimination of either.

Kid yourself not! What these hard-line Evangelicals, Charismatics
and Fundamentalists are doing today is exactly what our
Colonialist Forefathers fled from in great fear. 

Don't be fooled! Let freedom ring loud and clear but, beware of
the false Samaritan dressed in the shepherd's clothing.





A Jay Eddy
ajayeddy@bc.seflin.org