Comments on: “Ex-Gays” Protected Under D.C. Human Rights Act, Judge Rules

By: PFOX Snags Another Ex-Gay Board Member! - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

PFOX Snags Another Ex-Gay Board Member! - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:53:23 +0000

[...] University is only four hours away from Washington, D.C., where a recent court decision said that ex-gays ought to be protected from discrimination under the sexual orientation clause of the District’s Human Rights Act. In order for PFOX to [...]

By: Ex-Gay Group Calls Hate Crime Laws “Anti-Ex-Gay” - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:29:59 +0000

[...] that “ex-gays”—people who were once gay, but are now totally heterosexual—should be covered under the District’s sexual orientation protections. PFOX was psyched with the ruling, [...]

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:57:37 +0000

I think the term "ex gay" needs to be better defined. I've read of the "ex gay" groups that believe homosexuality can be "fixed". This implies that the output of this process is essentially a straight person. however, by godfrey's description, there is no "fixing" going in. Godfrey just sounds like a celibate gay man. No biggie... I hate to break it to you godfrey, but if you want to have sex with people of your gender, you're gay. Your choice of words "heterosexual facade" even indicates this. Being celibate (for religious reasons, health reasons or to protest the discontinuation of your favorite lube) doesn't really change anything. Or are heterosexual priests "ex straights"?

By: K. Godfrey Easter

K. Godfrey Easter — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:08:49 +0000

Not all individuals challenged by Same-Gender Attraction abandon the homosexual lifestyle for heterosexuality. Many, in their renewed existence, choose celibacy over putting on a heterosexual facade, not to please humanity, but in order to please GOD, if that's what it takes; especially those of us in whom GOD has made it crystal clear that the act in as much as the lifestyle exalts itself above HIS creation, HIS humanity, and HIS WORD.

I, for one, have been ex gay, celibate and spiritually satisfied for over four years now and ecstatically counting.

Hat's off to PFOX for helping to make life safe in this world for people like me and for helping Christ make it safe for whoever else abandons the spiritually-recalcitrant lifestyle it in the next.

Be blessed,
- Godfrey

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By: Mike Airhart

Mike Airhart — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:53:21 +0000

Reading the ruling, I do not believe the court conclusively said that ex-gays constitute an explicitly protected class.

The court reversed an earlier ruling that ex-gays are *not* a protected class, but it did not state that they *are* a protected class in D.C.

The court rationalized that, on the basis of the city's unusually expansive Human Rights Act which defines sexual orientation by "preference or practice," an ex-gay might hypothetically seek protection on the basis of a mutable decision not to "practice" homosexuality anymore. However, the court found that no such discrimination had occurred in the case of the NEA.

What must happen next? D.C. should revise its Human Rights Act so that sexual orientation is not misdefined.

The court ruling has no bearing outside of D.C.; no other locality that I'm aware of, (mis)defines sexual orientation so broadly.
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Mike Airhart
Truth Wins Out

By: Where’s the Transparency?: Loose Lips Daily - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:12:15 +0000

[...] ruled that ‘ex-gays’ are a protected class under the the D.C. Human Rights Act. Both WCP’s Sexist and Examiner cover the ruling, which comes as part of a lawsuit by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays [...]

By: Truth Wins Out - D.C. Court Reputedly Recognizes “Ex-Gay” as Sexual Orientation

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:28:57 +0000

[...] discriminatory, antigay literature, and it chose not to reverse the decision. According to Washington City Paper: While [Judge Maurice] Ross decided in the NEA’s favor, he also held that ex-gays do, in fact, [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:58:09 +0000

I don't understand. Isn't humanity the only criterion for being protected under a human rights act?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:07:30 +0000

Heterosexuals have lost your fucking minds.

Are you aware of this?