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News & ArtsTuesday, February 16, 2010
Homo No One Could've Predicted
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Lying scumbag preying on people with bogus gay "cure" has preyed on people before...
A Truth Wins Out (TWO) and South Florida Gay News (SFGN) investigation revealed today that a Wall Street criminal mastermind who was convicted in 1987 of “fraud of spectacular scope” has secretly reinvented himself as a moral leader who “cures” gay and lesbian people. Known as “Abba Dabba Do” in the financial world, Arthur Abba Goldberg was sentenced to 18 months in jail for bilking poor communities with complicated bond schemes and served six months in prison.... Upon completing his parole, Goldberg dropped his conspicuous middle name, Abba, and co-founded Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) in 1999. He is currently the president of Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality (PATH), an umbrella group for “ex-gay” referrals and the Executive Secretary of the notorious National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). He is also the President of Congregation Mount Sinai, a temple in Jersey City and a Principal for the International Center for Gender Affirming Processes (CGAP). Goldberg is a key ex-gay industry insider and viewed as an architect of its strategy and message machine, says TWO and SFGN.
More info here.
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Defrauding the poor isn't something you choose to do. You grow up to discover it. It's a lifestyle choice.
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Jumping Jesus, where do all these crooks come from?
I honestly thought that the ex-gay thing was an evangelical Christian gig. The Jews are doing to? I am disappointed. So is Jesus.
I honestly thought that the ex-gay thing was an evangelical Christian gig. The Jews are doing to? I am disappointed. So is Jesus.
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Didn't you just tell us you were on vacation and wouldn't be slogging, young man? Now go find something besides the internet to mutitask with: sunscreen or snowshoes or rental cars or whatever. No backtalk.
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@2, the markers in the Parcheesi game of my boyhood reminded me of boners. So in my case at least, no.
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More regurgitation and spin.
And here I thought this was supposed to be we a "Savage-free Slog" week.
And here I thought this was supposed to be we a "Savage-free Slog" week.
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I love it that Loveschild dismisses this as "regurgitation and spin" without having any facts to back up the claim that that's all this is. Of course Loveschild rarely, if ever, uses facts to back up any claim, so it shouldn't come as a surprise.
By the way, Loveschild, calling it "spin" is a nice attempt at spinning the story, but you need to put more effort if you want to use it to push your own beliefs.
By the way, Loveschild, calling it "spin" is a nice attempt at spinning the story, but you need to put more effort if you want to use it to push your own beliefs.
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@11 - Loveschild needs this to be spin since she just referred venomlash to JONAH the other day. When you throw around one "fact" without doing the research, is it any wonder you need to fudge a few more to pretend what you have to stay is still relevant?
Oh what a tangled web she weaves.
Oh what a tangled web she weaves.
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@15 Say...stay...she stays around and keeps saying the same inane things over and over, so the typo's understandable.
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By the way, Kim in Portland, I apologize for getting completely off topic, but, as much as I like the guitar picture, I also really liked the one of you at what appeared to be the Grand Canyon. But as long as you're happy, rock on!
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@8 when i started reading the slog i just assumed that you, loveschild, were just another ignorant biggot. now i am really thinking that you just don't understand what is going on. you should really get some help regarding your low comprehension level. there are things that can be done to help. please do not take offense to this. it's not an attempt to say "i don't agree with you so you are stupid." i just really think, based on your comments not only on this story but others, that you need some professional help. there are many adults with undiagnosed learning/development disorders and help is out there, but you have to make the first step. help won't come to you.
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Southern Gentleman,
Thank you. I like the picture of my father-in-law and I at the Grand Canyon too. The axe picture is my "regular" avatar and I always seem to return to it. One of these days, I might change it again and then change it back; or not.
Now back on topic. :)
Thank you. I like the picture of my father-in-law and I at the Grand Canyon too. The axe picture is my "regular" avatar and I always seem to return to it. One of these days, I might change it again and then change it back; or not.
Now back on topic. :)
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Back on topic, I honestly wonder why organizations that offer "ex-gay therapy" haven't been investigated more thoroughly. I found Peter Strudwick's undercover article interesting, and surprising, because I thought there'd be even stricter controls on such quackery in Britain.
When I was at school in Britain I remember hearing that Slim Fast couldn't claim in its ads to be a weight-loss product because at the time there was no medical evidence that it actually helped people lose weight. Similarly there doesn't seem to be any evidence that "ex-gay therapy" actually "cures" anyone--not that there's even a real need for a cure.
When I was at school in Britain I remember hearing that Slim Fast couldn't claim in its ads to be a weight-loss product because at the time there was no medical evidence that it actually helped people lose weight. Similarly there doesn't seem to be any evidence that "ex-gay therapy" actually "cures" anyone--not that there's even a real need for a cure.
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@6: Maybe so, but if you look at their home page, they can't seem to keep straight what their acronym stands for.
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@23 keeping anything straight is something that most "ex-gay" groups have a problem with!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
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@23 keeping anything straight is something that most "ex-gay" groups have a problem with!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
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@23 keeping anything straight is something that most "ex-gay" groups have a problem with!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
P.S. Thanks for the lob!
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So, @8, tell us how this guy being a swindling crook doesn't matter in his pursuit of exorcising the gay...
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