Yesterday I read an article on the June 16, 2011 issue of the New York Times Magazine. The title was "My Ex-Gay Friend", which caught my attention immediately. We've heard so many stories about straight men came out and accepted their true sexuality, but I personally don't think that I ever have heard the opposite.
After finished reading the story about Michael Glatze, my mind was filled with a mixture of fascination, disbelief and a little anger. I only would like to ask him, if he really is straight now, why is it that he still needs to repress his feelings towards men? Why does he choose to live in a state, a community where there's visually no gay activities and surrounds himself with religious, anti gay, blind-Bible-reading followers?
What made me upset is that he not only declared he is straight but also starts criticizing gays and spreading anti gay messages. His using religion and quoting Bible are exactly the reasons why I don't believe in churches. Shouldn't religions unite people? Isn't it religion's purpose to teach people to be kind and be nice to others?
It's fine with me if Michael Glatze decides to become straight. If he finds peace and happy being a straight man, then I'd say"good for him". But now he believes that being gay is a choice, that it's something that you can switch back and forth, that "God" does not want gay people to be gay, all these simply make me wonder what has happened to him that causes him to have such 180-degree change in attitude about his sexuality and about gay?
To me, he has not found himself or the truth as he claimed he has. He is more lost than ever before.
PS: click here to read the article
