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[rm]

Despite my whining, directing makes me hot, and we're making good progress.

I hate my gf's comprehensives. I want to make it better but there's little I can do and no time for it besides. The whole process seems arbitrarily torturous, which I realize is the point, but really sucks when it's happening to someone you care about as opposed to existing merely in a conceptual and exacting manner. Obviously, she's more than equal to it, but still -- suckage.

Tomorrow I'll be home and able to chill by 8pm, and I'm really grateful for that too. Especially since we're doing a three hour rehearsal on Thursday.

Finally, remember the story of the kid who was being sent to some camp by his parents so he wouldn't be gay anymore? Well, it looks like it was effective at least in the short term. The whole story makes me sad. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=7428306&blogID=39349496&Mytoken=20050809220730

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the kid's all right and do see the wisdom (albeit dubiously derived) of not wanting this little chapter of Internet celebrity related to one facet of who he is to define him.

However, while I do not view all sexuality as simply biological in origin (we're too complex and varied for that), I take umbrage both at your assertion that sexual identity is merely life choice (and an apparently an immutable one, which speaks mainly to a lack of imagination on your part) and that an older teen somehow isn't capable of understanding their own identity and desires, simply because they are not 100% mainstream or to your liking. Certianly, no one would question the self-perceptions of a teen who was simply heterosexual. And what "consequences" you are referring to, I can only guess in a post that so obviously has an outlook that isn't welcome here. Your condescension, worldview and complete disregard for the obvious fact that I'm queer is not just rude, revolting and unwarranted, but pointless.

While I cannot speak to Love in Action, presumeably any more than you can, having no firsthand experience with the program, I remain shocked and dismayed by the initial rules he posted from the program that were simply arbitrary, dehumanizing and ultimately bullying about petty surface issues (and really don't we all have enough of that in high school? shouldn't adults be protecting kids from that type of behavior, not perpetrating it?) - contrary to their belief, many heterosexual women do not shave their legs, and in fact can maintain their heterosexuality in the face of the apparent horror of being mamals. And that's just one example of the program's petty viciousness.

Additionally the assertion, if true, that the program stated that he was better off dead with an "intact" soul than gay with a "damaged" one, is both cruel and horrifying and potentially criminally negligent. Youth suicide in general (and queer youths have a particularly high suicide rate because of the lack of support for their mere right of existence) strikes me as a much greater sin to encourage than that of some teenager trying to sort out what type of person he wants to spend his life with.

Despite managing to stop yourself from writing a screed about the "gay agenda," you obviously lack both compassion and common sense and are not welcome here.

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Wow, what a poorly thought-out response.