g********d 发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com January 22, 2011
Witness Reflects on Prop 8 Testimony
By Advocate.com Editors
Ryan Kendall Image: The Kendall Project "I would rather have had an abortion
than a gay son."
These were the words that Ryan Kendall heard from his mother as a teenager
growing up in Colorado Springs, Colo.
In a new blog post on Out Front Colorado, the 27-year-old Denver police
officer, who underwent "ex-gay" reparative therapy, reflects on his painful
upbringing, one that became part of historic testimony in the federal
Proposition 8 trial a year ago this month.
"My family was torn apart because of antigay attitudes that condemn people
without a cognizable reason, solely for being who they are," Kendall writes.
"All of these thoughts were running through my head as I paced back and
forth in the courtroom hallway last year. I had one goal for my testimony:
to show the world the truth. I needed to honorably represent all LGBT youth
rejected by society." | D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 2 宗教狂热让人失去人性。Colorado Springs, CO是宗教狂热之地,也是那个叫什么Ted
Haggard以前“布道”的地方,so you go figure。 |
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