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jpole

Pray the Gay Away? on the Oprah Winfrey Network... Are you FUCKING kidding me?

Religion is a HUGE part of why gay people receive so much hate and bullshit.

Posted Mar 9, 2011, 4:26 AM UTC

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monkius•

Ughh... Religion is so not fabulous

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ArtimusClydeFrog•

Oprah has always been very supportive of equality for gays, I don't get why she would allow that on her network.

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drobird•

um a link to a story or something would be nice.

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rayne117•
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drobird•

I mean if she was supporting their view point i guess i would be mad but all they are doing is showing whats going on in these places.

If at the end she gives them a big endorsement i would be pissed but eh shes simply showing another side of life.

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enlightenedmark•

I was actually watching OWN with my mom because of a program about faith healing. It was actually pretty good, so I'm surprised that she would have the anti-gay program on. The faith healing program actually gave my theist mom a good look at why I dislike religion.

We were talking, and she was very confident that the church was a force of evil in the world. Even the church that we attended so faithfully earlier in my life. I was actually pretty proud of Oprah for this. I actually think that my (relatively recent...within 2 years) deconversion and the OWN program gave my mom a good push towards atheism

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jpoleOP•

That Faith Healing program sounds interesting. I'll have to check that out.

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rathat•

I'm perfectly fine with people praying the gays away, because what does it even do? NOTHING!

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Xarnon•

Instead of doing nothing/praying, they should do something useful (like donating to a pro-gay group, or something)!

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