Comments on: An Exodus Conference Attendee Goes to the Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:03:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Story So Far… » Blog Archive » Integrity http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522/comment-page-1#comment-934 The Story So Far… » Blog Archive » Integrity Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:33:33 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522#comment-934 [...] Jim Burroway over at Box Turtle Bulletin and Mike Airhart over at Ex-Gay Watch react positively to a blog post by Exodus affiliated minister  Karen Keen, about her experience attending some of the events at the Ex-Gay Survivor's Conference.  Jim calls it "...a very lovely and grace-filled post."  Mike says of it that it is an "...accurate, balanced and thoughtful account."  Allow me to be the grouch here.  Accurate it may well have been.  Balanced, perhaps.  Graceful...well it depends.  It was certainly polite.  But I wouldn't go so far even as to say it was respectful.  What it was, was patronizing.   There is a spiritual sense of the word 'grace' that speaks to unconditional loving and caring and unless you think that looking for better ways to put innocent people through unmitigated hell out of a thoughtless devotion to dogma amounts to grace I'd have to say grace filled, along with thoughtful it was not.  When people say things like this you need to take it seriously for what it is... [...] [...] Jim Burroway over at Box Turtle Bulletin and Mike Airhart over at Ex-Gay Watch react positively to a blog post by Exodus affiliated minister  Karen Keen, about her experience attending some of the events at the Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference.  Jim calls it "…a very lovely and grace-filled post."  Mike says of it that it is an "…accurate, balanced and thoughtful account."  Allow me to be the grouch here.  Accurate it may well have been.  Balanced, perhaps.  Graceful…well it depends.  It was certainly polite.  But I wouldn’t go so far even as to say it was respectful.  What it was, was patronizing.   There is a spiritual sense of the word ‘grace’ that speaks to unconditional loving and caring and unless you think that looking for better ways to put innocent people through unmitigated hell out of a thoughtless devotion to dogma amounts to grace I’d have to say grace filled, along with thoughtful it was not.  When people say things like this you need to take it seriously for what it is… [...]

]]> By: Christine http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522/comment-page-1#comment-918 Christine Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:56:33 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522#comment-918 Barry, it's hot-linked in the post, but here is another link: <a href="http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/survivor-conference/" rel="nofollow">Karen's Blog Post</a> Barry, it’s hot-linked in the post, but here is another link:

Karen’s Blog Post

]]> By: Barry http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522/comment-page-1#comment-917 Barry Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:09:40 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/07/04/522#comment-917 Please provide a link to Karen's blog? Please provide a link to Karen’s blog?

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