Mary, you too can find your way back into the closet

Concerned Women for America released an open letter to the Cheneys, begging Mary Cheney to lose her job and dump her girlfriend and get back in the closet because change, you know, is possible.

I am the parent of a homosexual child and the executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), a national organization that offers support and education to families and friends of homosexuals, and advocates for the rights of ex-gays.

God, do these ex-gay groups have any originality? Take PFLAG's name, change a couple of letters and you have an acronymn that might even get Murdoch's sponsorship!

Mary is, I'm sure, a fine young woman with many wonderful qualities, and that is how she should be recognized. To label anyone solely by their sexuality is demeaning and inappropriate. As parents, we can and do love our children unconditionally no matter who they are attracted to. Loving unconditionally allows us the freedom to maintain our values and viewpoints while keeping a bridge open to our children.

Nothing says unconditional love like weeping, giving your child literature that says she's going to hell for who she is and telling her that you love the heterosexual that's within.

Sen. Kerry deliberately misled the American public as well as people who have unwanted same-sex attractions when he stated that people are “born gay.” He should know better.

As we all know, people choose to be gay so they can make their fundamentalist Christian parents miserable.

Ex-gays also presented the senators' offices with a congressional resolution on tolerance for former homosexuals. The resolution calls for Congress to condemn intolerance against ex-gays and to affirm its commitment to a society that respects all people, including former homosexuals. Now who could be opposed to that? Yet both senators have refused to state whether they support the resolution.

Congress understandably has a problem affirming tolerance for imaginary groups of people, especially when called on to do so by people who advocate intolerance for actual groups of people. Not that "ex"-gays don't have problems--for one thing, they are just as likely to be taken for being gay when they are out cruising the gay bars as they were when they were gay. And that can present sort of a problem for the new spouse and kids.

Homosexual activists like those working on the Kerry-Edwards team want "gay marriage" and civil unions in order to gain public affirmation. They think this will make them happy. Happiness requires hope, and real hope is the knowledge that many men and women overcome unwanted same-sex attractions every year, even those who believed at one time that they were born that way and had no choice.

At least 10-15 gays and lesbians manage to hold their nose and have sex with a member of the opposite sex 2-3 times a year to prove that they are straight. It can be done! That's real happiness there, not being with someone you actually love and desire.

Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, let me conclude by saying that I hope you'll sit down with PFOX some day and find kindred souls and new hope that you might not have known existed.

Gosh I hope they can make time to do it tomorrow so that it gets on the news for the voters to see.

Via Steve Gilliard.