Offer hope for those who are hurting
A gay pride event in Sandpoint? I read the story about Jeff Bohnhoff and PFLAG and immediately felt deep sadness for our community. Let me explain why.
I’ve just spent the week in Dallas, meeting up with ex-gays, ex-transgender people and hearing their stories. They all came from abusive, hurtful, painful experiences in the past. You spoke of deep regret. Laura Beth Perry (Transgender to Transformed) spoke about the horror she went through to mutilate her body, all encouraged by her local PFLAG chapter on the pretext of assuming her true identity. It was a lie and she knows it now.
My roommates in Sandpoint and North Idaho, what the LGBTQ community and their local supporters are driving forward, is an anti-science, unhealthy lifestyle. The LGBTQ community has higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases, domestic violence, depression, suicide and substance abuse. Do we want to promote this in our community? Do we want to promote this in our schools and libraries? Is that what we chose our mayor to promote?
Believe me when I say it has nothing to do with “equality”. It has to do with mainstreaming a lifestyle that is destructive. Just say no to companies driving this agenda. Encourage counseling, not celebration. Offer hope to those who are hurt.
DON S. OTIS
Sand point
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