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duckfacekilla:

A Christian group shows up to a Chicago Gay Pride parade holding apologetic signs including “I’m sorry for how the church treated you”.

There is good in the world.

Sorry to break it to you, but this is the same “love the sinner, hate the sin” horseshit wrapped in a kinder, gentler coating.

From Michelangelo Signorile:

I can’t say I’m familiar with what his org has done since I wrote the article, which was four years ago. He disappeared his web site after my expose in the Advocate and after gay groups dropped contact with him. But I don’t think a leopard like this changes spots. Marin is it in for himself—beginning with naming a foundation after himself at the age of 27—and he is not a “bridge” to anything except to his own ambitions. He embelishes what his organization does, and at least in 2006, I could not find anyone from the gay community or the religious right who’d gone to his supposed seminars. He claims to be conducting a study—by quizzing people at gay pride events—that he says will be the largest study ever (like everything he and his group does—it’s always the “only,” the “largest,” the “greatest,” the “first,” and on and on), and which at that time had no social scientists on board (maybe he’s got some now, I don’t know).

He tells the religous right what it wants to hear and tries to tell us what we want to hear—though he would not at that time say homosexuality was not a sin. I wouldn’t say he’s on some antigay mission. I just think he is trying to build himself up and if it means embelishing and being deceptive, so be it. His former friends attest to that as well. Even if he’s changed his positions now, from his history I wouldn’t think it was much beyond ambitiousnes and not a from-the-heart change—and would always question his true motives. Sure, if he wants to show up at pride with Christians apologizing, that’s nice. But no one should give him a dime for doing it (I see on FB that he’s now selling the “I”m sorry” t-shirts), as I don’t think he’s doing it for any other reason than to get financial and other support from LGBTs for his own career.

More at Dan Savage’s blog.

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