In Reply to: Re: What did Dr. Laura really say? posted by Student on October 04, 2006 at 21:22:40:
The way I saw it, the e-mail was more of a point-maker for the sake of people who hear way too much on a daily basis about how "wrong" they are. I don't care for Dr. Laura at all and not just because of her stance on homosexuality. I think any person that becomes a public figure has received death threats or been stalked. Or just about anybody. No one group threatens her but sick individuals. As with any threatener or stalker.
I enjoyed the e-mail because it made a point about a way that many people think in spite of the AMA and APA position on sexuality and that homosexuality is neither deviant nor a biological error any more than left-handedness is an error.
That is how I view it anyway. I won't get into this subject more regarding Dr. Laura because this conversation would then take a political turn and become a heated controversy. Is it not enough just to let it be said that in the ex-member community there are people who are coming to terms with who they are and what their preference for A N Y T H I N G is. For some it is conservative Christianity, others humanism Christianity, others Buddhism, others Atheism, and so on.
I know that it took me a few years to discover what kinds of music I liked, what kind and colors of clothing, A-Z stuff. I think identity on so many levels is what gets shoved under the cult persona for so long that when a person gets out it is a whole new world.
Sort of like in "Pleasantville" but on "Elm Street". We got out of the nightmare of total control and what did each of us like? What do each of us believe? It's no longer a group thing.
What takes your world from black and white to color or are you (meaning anyone reading this) more comfortable in black and white?
I think I was more comfortable in black and white for some time but when the colors came into my life, it was a natural high.