Capitol Ideas/Exodus
Bethell, Tom
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...Here is a sample quote from Johnson, cited in the article, showing why gay groups don't like him: The AIDS crisis, instead of hurting their cause, has given [homosexuals] millions of federal, state, and local taxpayer dollars...
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...How much subsequent homosexual practice was encouraged by this medical misguidance...
...ecently, the New York Times reported that, "challenged by a gay rights group and the United Way in the San Francisco Bay Area to end its practice of banning homosexuals, the Boy Scouts of America agreed to develop a youth program that will allow gay members, atheists and girls...
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...Johnson was molested by a neighbor at the age of five and later had many homosexual encounters...
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...It's actually a group of deviations...
...He went to see Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco, hoping to start a Courage chapter there...
...If there's any press coverage of their meetings, it will almost certainly ignore Exodus and describe a disruptive invasion by ACT-UP or some other group...
...But I have also chosen not to engage in sex with men...
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...Since then, homosexuals have been accorded victim status and accusation privileges...
...In German...
...Then he said: `There's people downstairs that I have to deal with.' He asked me to put it in writing...
...He keeps a log of his temptations—it's part of the therapy...
...So once again he got in touch with Christian groups—ministries loosely affiliated with Exodus, which seeks to "communicate the message of liberation from homosexuality through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord," to quote from the masthead of its publication, Exodus Standard...
...Today he travels about, advocating chastity to various groups...
...There was a lot of drinking and drugs, as well as sex...
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...In 1988 he found out that he was HIV-positive—the big crisis in his life...
...550 people participated in their latest conference, in Toronto...
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...But the capitulation still didn't go far enough to please the United Way, apparently...
...His own health was fine, but he wouldn't say whether he had taken the HIV test...
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...Johnson, 43, is a pastoral assistant to Courage, an organization founded in 1980 by Father John Harvey at the request of the late Cardinal Cooke of New York, and headquartered at St...
...He broke free from defensive maneuvers and spread his wings a little when I mentioned the Pope: "There's something ludicrous about a middle-aged ex-actor in a long white gown, a bejewelled ring, and a big gold hat who accepts condemnation of homosexuality...
...It is not that magnanimity from the intelligentsia is impossible...
...Are they celebrating in the AIDS wards, one wonders...
...H omosexuality is a "maladaptive coping mechanism," Bret says...
...That's shameful," Johnson says of the Boy Scout decision...
...Maybe God had meant him to be gay...
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...J. Marmor, a high-ranking official of the APA, said that calling homosexuality disordered was a "misuse of psychiatry" with detrimental "social consequences" for its practitioners...
...People magazine described him as looking "a bit like Tom Selleck—big, fit, muscular, mustachioed...
...They were shocked by what he told them—they were afraid of being "contaminated," he says, and they asked him to leave the group...
...Bret grew up in Davenport, Iowa...
...First he opened his Bible and read a passage from St...
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...Gay activists, Queer Nation, and ACT-UP show up to harass him if they can find out where he is...
...Meanwhile, he became uncomfortably well informed, at first hand, about the sexual proclivities of various ecclesiastical folk...
...It is "difficult to overcome" such addictive behavior, he says, but with professional help, chastity, and "a spiritual base" it can be done...
...ly, but he feels it can't be avoided...
...They are being put in charge of AIDS commissions, again using their position not to stop AIDS but to promote their anti-family, pro-homosexual agenda...
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...Homosexuality is one thing and sexual addiction another, he says, "but in combination they can be very powerful...
...for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural...
...Paul, what crossed his mind was not so much the "penalty" as the "error": the thought that God does allow us to act freely, does respect our free will, but that often we make incorrect choices...
...if not, they content themselves with threats and obscene phone calls...
...At a time when we might be noting the selflessness and occasional heroism of anti-Communists —both liberal and conservative—Lewis doubts America's fidelity to its democratic values and reiterates his recent list of alleged constitutional infractions by conservatives, all of which he exaggerates and most of which took place in pursuit of the Reagan-Bush policy of opposing Communism...
...Johnson's GOD AND THE INTELLECTUALS Among the well-educated the myth still circulates that religion is the preserve of the dimwitted, unlettered, and irrational, that the price of salvation is checking your mind at the Pearly Gates...
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...I did, but I never heard from him again...
...One of their leaders was Jack Fertig, known as "Sister Boom Boom...
...Lewis, Martin Luther King, Flannery O'Connor, Mother Teresa, and Archbishops Romero and Tutu...
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...He says: "The word `gay' is used by militant homosexuals to indoctrinate our culture into believing that there is a subculture that doesn't really exist...
...We bat around a wide variety of issues and defy easy ideological pigeonholing...
...It extends even to the more sensible sort, such as Meg Greenfield, who in her Newsweek column belittles the American people for not appreciating the humanity of or-dinary Russians, treating them as members of an "undifferentiated, morally improbable blob...
...Precisely because it is learned rather than inborn, homosexuality can be spread by proselytizers masquerading as educators, using pornographic material masquerading as graphic...
...Nonetheless, he became a Christian in 1981...
...But homosexuality itself is also increasing, he believes, since it is correlated with (increasing) family breakdown...
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...It struck me, men and men aren't supposed to have sex together...
...Discipline, and God, will attain the rest...
...Safe-sex slogans and condom promotion add their own encouragement, of course...
...Exodus and affiliates have received bomb threats and had their tires slashed...
...He recommended that I talk to the people at Dignity (pro-gay Catholics), or "the many gay parishioners at Most Holy Redeemer Church," in the Castro district...
...And it doesn't fulfill my desire to be more masculine or to be loved or accepted...
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...The government was still "obstructing" the search for an AIDS cure, he thought...
...For a while, however, very few seemed to grasp that Johnson had embraced chastity and abstinence...
...A United Way vice president, John Stafford, was quoted as saying: "This is a sign that the Boy Scouts are not absolutely steadfast in hewing to their old line...
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...Jim Johnson doesn't like the term "ex-gay," calling himself "a homosexually oriented man who has repudiated the lifestyle...
...He receives several hundred inquiries a month...
...nor does it signify a hostility to science, only an appreciation of the limits of science and technology...
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...Yet, from Harvard to Berkeley, and among inquisitive people generally, there's an undeniable renewal of interest in the questions traditional religion raises and seeks to answer...
...No religion at all in public school, or the University of Iowa, which Tom Bethell is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent and a media fellow at the Hoover Institution...
...Like others in his position, he is given to psychological discourse and analysis of parental sex roles...
...Interest in Exodus and related Christian ministries is rising...
...Also rising is the antagonism of gay activists to the suggestion that homosexuality can be reversed...
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...Frontiers, a homosexual publication, recently published a four-page article attacking "Dr...
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...The National Gay Task Force hailed this subordination of science to politics as the "greatest gay victory...
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...It seems like you're born with it because it can start so young...
...His mother's background was Catholic, his father's Jewish...
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...He arrived in San Francisco in 1987, when he was 24...
...Obscene phone calls are routine...
...On the very morning when Lewis was disingenuously associating American conservatives with the Soviet coup's Stalinist hardliners and arrogating to his fellow lefties the Soviet reformers' finer values, the independent-minded editorialists at the Wall Street Journal published a testimonial to "Those Who Served," "the enemies of communism [who] have been grinding away at its foundations for nearly a century...
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...This has been difficult, because he had become "massively addicted...
...he attended for three years...
...By the time of the Popes visit to San Francisco in 1987, however, Fertig had renounced drugs, alcohol, and "the sisters," whom he called "a bunch of drunken party queens...
...He was making a living, if barely, writing articles about astrology...
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...At the time of the Democratic National Convention in 1984, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of homosexuals dressed as nuns, conducted demonstrations against normal societyand family life, which they characterized as bigoted and homophobic...
...They didn't have to compromise their principles...
...I phoned him in August...
...Johnson avoids "one-on-one counseling," knowing how many "transgressions" there have been in such situations...
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...The San Francisco papers report rising rates of HIV infection among younger gays...
...and in the same way the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts, and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error...
...So now I can help other people" In San Francisco, he says, he has found a "peace and stability" that he couldn't find in Iowa...
...The only way to resist the temptation is to stay away from it...
...He is concerned that, in both the Boy Scouts and the U.S...
...Calvary accepted me without judgment," Bret says...
...In French...
...Impressionable young men can be recruited by exposure to the disorder...
...At that point he became very rebellious and angry at the Christian community and soon after moved to San Francisco...
...And he is making an experimental movie about the "gay and Christian communities," and traits they have in common...
...When they found out I had changed my lifestyle they considered me a traitor," Johnson says...
...He was "kind of seduced" at the age of 12 by a family friend when camping, and since then has had homosexual encounters with literally hundreds of men...
...Very mixed feelings...
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...Homosexuals now have the power to go into our schools and under the pretense of AIDS education present homosexuality as a normal, healthy alternative lifestyle to our children...
...This fascination is largely the result of the failure of secular substitutes for religion (such as positivism, rationalism, hedonism, consumerism, technological utopianism, Freudianism, and Marxism) to give abidingly satisfying answers to the truly significant puzzles in life: evil, goodness, suffering, love, death, and the meaning of it all...
...You've done it again...
...He found a job working as a secretary for a law firm and he circulated within the gay community...
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...Sexual addiction is an area we are hearing more and more about," says Bob Davies, editor of the Exodus Standard and executive director of Exodus International, in San Rafael, California...
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...I'm leaving the gay lifestyle but not rejecting my many friends who are gay...
...He too lives in the Tenderloin...
...Anyway, now he is "recovering" and "learning" heterosexuality—like learning a new language...
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...Many homosexual men have developed such an appetite that it's very difficult for them to stop, even though they desperately wish they could, even thoughthey know it can kill them...
...But he's a captive prince...
...Time interviewed him at length, but nothing appeared in the magazine...
...I can't tell you the number of interviews that I've done that have never appeared in print," says Davies...
...A.M., Reno, Nevadaging from the lifestyle is possible, and highly healthy for the spiritual and psychological life of the person striving in that direction...
...Joseph Nicolosi's new book Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality...
...So he resigned himself to the lifestyle...
...His thoughts about the Catholic Church...
...Ever since the American Psychiatric Association reversed itself in 1973 and ceased to classify homosexuality as a mental illness, it has been dogma among the major media that homosexTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1991 9 uality calls for deferential, even outright favorable, coverage...
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...We're not designed that way...
...Among other things, we scrutinize the religious dimensions of the great events and issues of the past and present, and probe the wisdom offered not only by the Bible and Church fathers, but also by such giants as St...
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...CAPITOL IDEAS EXODUS by Tom Bethell ret Lutz was getting ready to go I.EN jogging in the lènderloin, south of Market Street in San Francisco...
...But still, he could not find Gay Nirvana in the Gay Mecca...
...Paul's Epistle to the Romans: For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions...
...In 1988, a friend referred Bret to Calvary Chapel in San Francisco, where they helped Christians who "wanted to leave the gay lifestyle" There was group counseling, therapy to examine the roots ofhomosexuality, prayer, worship, references to Biblical authority, and so on...
...His family went to church for weddings and funerals...
...A few years later, he told a Bible study group in Iowa about his struggles with homosexuality...
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...Growing up, he had almost no exposure to religion...
...Today, Courage helps homosexuals in fifteen North American dioceses "to live chaste lives in accordance with the Roman Catholic church's teaching on homosexuality," and "to live lives that may serve as good examples to other homosexuals...
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...He's held captive by the people who run that building...
...The way you choose different contributors is excellent...
...But Lewis's pettiness is more typical of the American intelligentsia...
...He was by then interested in the cult of santerfa, which, he said, symbolized his "pagan background" and his "Christian search...
...Contrary to stereotypes, this religious renaissance does not imply a retreat from working for peace, justice, and human dignity...
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...He's a good man," says Johnson...
...He was very sympathetic, gave me 45 minutes of his time...
...Johnson's message is that homosexuality is sometimes contagious, always dangerous, but also curable...
...He is a Christian, he said, and he attends an "Anglo-Catholic" church in San Francisco...
...military, innocent but naive young men could be "focused into the lifestyle" by coming into contact with non-innocent, predatory gay men...
...I don't know many homosexuals that I would trust in those close encounters with boys or young men...
...Many of them have since died of AIDS...
...Davies says that homosexuality was something he had to deal with in his own life...
...And in Italian...
...My heart bled for him...
Vol. 24 • October 1991 • No. 10
